For someone who billed himself as being a uniter not a divider, and as someone who would be the president of all the states, not just of the Blue States, I think it very fair to say that he’s been much more than a minor disappointment. So it should come as no real surprise that Barry’s overall approval rating remains pretty firmly stuck in the mid-40s, where it has been since July. And, for whatever bizarre reason, he receives much higher marks for foreign policy than for domestic issues, at least according to a new national survey out one year before he is up for re-election. And something shown in a CNN/ORC International Poll that was released Tuesday indicates that 52% of all Americans seem to approve of how the president is handling the situation in Iraq. An indication, it would appear, that Americans tend to favor Barry's decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from that country by year's end, an opinion that I disagree with. Also, forty-eight percent of those questioned approve of how he is handling the war in Afghanistan. By contrast, only 35% have a positive view of his economic track record, and just 38% approve of how he is handling health care policy.
When taking everything into account, what it all adds up to is an overall 46% approval rating for the president, with 52% now saying that they disapprove of how Barry is handling his job in the White House. "That's par for the course for Obama, whose overall approval rating has been hovering in the mid 40s in every CNN poll conducted since June," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. Comparatively speaking, when looking at other recent incumbents who ran for re-election as a gauge, Barry's 46% approval ranks above only Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, who, as we remember, both lost their re-election bids, in November of the year before an election. Most incumbents who were re-elected had an approval rating above 50% a year before the election. But George W. Bush, at 50%, and Richard Nixon, at 49%, also won re-election, and Bush's father George H.W. Bush had a 56% approval rating yet lost to Bill Clinton the following year. But as we all remember, Clinton had plenty of help courtesy of third party candidate, Ross Perot. Without that help I seriously doubt whether old “BJ” would have ever been able to win the election.
While the poll does very clearly indicate that the standard partisan divide regarding how well, or not Barry is dong his job, with three-quarters of Democrats giving Barry a very resounding two thumbs up with only 15% of Republicans agreeing with them regarding the job he's doing there in the Oval Office. The poll also showed that by a 54%-42% margin, independent voters now disapprove of how the president's handling of his duties. Women are divided on how Barry is performing, but men disapprove by a 55%-43% margin. White Americans now give Barry a pretty obvious thumbs down by a 61%-36% margin, and what should come as no big surprise to anyone is the fact that non-white Americans give the president a thumbs up by a more than 2-1 margin. When looking back over Barry’s record of the last nearly three years, a record that Barry says that he would put up against anybody’s, it’s becomes pretty easily to understand why these numbers fall out as they do. The majority of what he has done favors minorities while sticking it to those of us who actually work, and are therefore forced to fork over the funds to pay for his little giveaways.
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