The Increasingly Unpopular Barack Obama

by Dave Price on November 18, 2009

He’s under 50% in the latest Quinnipiac poll.

He’d also be under 50% in the ABC and CBS polls, but as Ed Morissey notes they are inexplicably re-weighting more and more Dems into these polls, such that even as Gallup shows the party gap moving to the GOP’s favor ABC/CBS are weghting +14/+13% Dems.

Rasmussen, of course, has had him underwater for quite a while.

Now for the fun part: let’s see how many times we hear reference to “the increasingly unpopular” President Obama in the MSM over the coming days and weeks (I call zero).

I also can’t wait to see who’s the first to claim Barack’s sinking numbers are attributable to racism, which will almost certainly come sans explanation of why Americans are suddenly more racist.

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1 MikeLyons November 18, 2009 at 5:49 pm: Well, the problem here is that it’s been a year since the election and polls take in likely or all voters. What I’m getting at is that there must have been a surge of radically-racist people born in 1991 to explain this. I mean, it can’t be that the American people are actually waking up to the fact that he is, at best, just another politician; and, at worst, the worst and most corrupt we’ve ever had. /snark
2 Dean Esmay November 18, 2009 at 6:35 pm: Presidential popularity goes up and down, usually. At this point the American people see him as they should: the President.
3 P Mike November 19, 2009 at 11:01 am: I am NOT an Obama fan, think his election was basically racist, but the approval numbers don’t strike me as being particularly bad outside the context of the previous unconscionable inflation.
4 Aziz Poonawalla November 19, 2009 at 11:44 am: I also can’t wait to see who’s the first to claim Barack’s sinking numbers are attributable to racism, which will almost certainly come sans explanation of why Americans are suddenly more racist.

since the only people who make the claim are righties who have a bizarre, twisted fantasy of what liberals act like and believe, you will probably be disappointed.
5 ArnoldHarris November 19, 2009 at 5:36 pm: Not a few Americans are indeed racist. Not just white folks. Contempt and sometimes outright hatred for the strnger male is wired into the human psyche.

But I think some of them overcame these feelings because all America was looking for a way out of our growing witches’ nest of problems by means of the “Magic Negro” — a presidential-to-the-core personage typically played by Clint Eastwood’s movie buddy Morgan Freeman. Gravitas, I think was the word used by ancient Romans. Maybe the Jews would go so far as to say: “The m’shiach is here! The m’shiach is here!”

Now, 12 months after his election, we all are learning that he’s just another mortal like the rest of us. Even worse, we are learning he really was little more than a Chicago ward heeler, shoved into a US Senate seat because he become an instant media darling almost from the moment he was discovered by the national television networks. Undeniably, he is an infinitely more suave on-stage performer than Bathhouse John Coughlin or Hinky Dink Kenna. Much better educated, too. But in the fine old days of that particular kind of Chicago, law degrees at Harvard, Yale or Princeton wouldn’t have gotten you very far in Bridgeport, the Patch, or Back of the Yards.

Now this most fickle of all possible populations — the american nation — wants to give him the hook and haul him offstage so they can see the next vaudeville act, including maybe dancing girls. If we didn’t all have some stake in the outcome, this would be a humorous kind of american story that Mike Royko, Damon Runyan and H L Mencken used to write about.

Anyway, he is the duly elected president. So we all will have to cut him the same kind of slack that we did for all 43 of his predecessors.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
6 Mc Kiernan November 19, 2009 at 8:50 pm: Well, course Obama was elected and not selected or so I’ve heard on left coast radio.

And , I am definitely not a give’m some slack voter.

I didn’t vote for Bush, last go around and didn’t vote for Obama nor McCain.

I feel badly about that and I feel I’m a disenfranchised American, not to mention the Obamacare crap sandwiches from Pelosi, Reid and the democrats.
7 ArnoldHarris November 19, 2009 at 8:57 pm: McK,

You didn’t vote for Bush, last go around, and didn’t vote for Obama nor McCain?

But you feel badly about being a disenfranchised American?

This is like a guy purposely dropping a bowling ball on one of his feet, then complaining about the force of gravity.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
8 Mc Kiernan November 19, 2009 at 9:05 pm: Arnold,

Sorry, you’re incorrect on your bowling ball analysis. Seems to me Bush and Obama were/are guilty throwing gutter balls.

And yes, one can be a very loyal American and choose not to vote.

Honestly, my vote wouldn’t have made the slightest difference.

California ain’t voting republican in the near or far distant future.

It’s called political reality where I live.

We are what the national republican committee refers to as a throw-away state.
9 Dave Price November 19, 2009 at 10:39 pm: Aziz,

You clearly haven’t been listening to Maureen Down. Or Jimmy Carter. Or MSNBC.

Hell, just Google “racism Obama.”
10 Paul S. November 20, 2009 at 11:11 am: Aziz,

If you are making a prediction that no liberals will express such sentiments, well then, we’ll just see. But if you are trying to say it is a fantasy of the right that there are liberals who reflexively chalk up any disparities between races to the all-purpose explanation of racism, then you are either hopelessly naive or dishonest.
11 MikeLyons November 20, 2009 at 11:38 am: Or Keith Olbermann or Janine Garafolo…
12 deadrody November 20, 2009 at 12:01 pm: Yeah, Aziz, we must have imagined it.

“I think people who are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African American.

“It’s a racist attitude, and my hope is and my expectation is that in the future both Democratic leaders and Republican leaders will take the initiative in condemning that kind of unprecedented attack on the president of the United States,” Carter said.

Source: That bastion of right wing nuttery – CNN!!!

AND

“I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American,” Carter told “NBC Nightly News.”

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