Poll: Obama And Congressional Dems Dropping — Among Democrats
Nearly everyone seems to agree that President Obama is bleeding liberal support over his overly conciliatory approach to the GOP on health care reform and his apparent softening of support for the public option.
But is it true?
Yep, it certainly may be true, if you believe the new Research 2000 poll for DailyKos. The survey finds a surprisingly sharp drop in the favorability ratings of Obama and Congressional Dems — among Democrats.
Here are the net favorability ratings for Obama — i.e., the difference between the favorable and unfavorable ratings — broken down by party and compared with the previous week:
DEMOCRATS: +72 (+78)
REPUBLICANS: – 86 (- 84)
INDEPENDENTS: +35 (+39)
And here are the net favorability ratings for Congressional Dems, broken down by party and compared with the previous week:
DEMOCRATS: +55 (+65)
REPUBLICANS: – 90 (- 90)
INDEPENDENTS: – 20 (- 15)
A six point drop in the net fave rating among Dems for Obama; a ten point drop among Dems for Congressional Dems. Pretty telling.
Today everyone is talking about the new WaPo poll finding real slippage for Obama on health care and general trust. I’m trying to get a partisan breakdown of those numbers to see if they, too, confirm the above trend. Should be interesting. Will keep you posted.
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The Obama “Bipartisan” consensus pursuit, Paradox.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jifjRVLVjzA
“These are the folks who created the mess” President Obama.
That is why the nation turned away from the Republicans, and left them with record low approval ratings and support.
Why then is the President, who says that they created the mess, so desperately trying to rehabilitate the Republicans who created the mess. The country came to the conclusion that the were sick of what the Republicans had wrought, and turned to Obama to undo the mess.
Why then is he trying to include those who created the mess, in providing the cure.
It is absurd. Republicans were following their deeply held convictions, when they created the mess, and they are not going to abandon those convictions, just because President Obama gives them a come hither smile.
Look what has happened. President Obama has been weakened, and the Republicans have become emboldened.
President Obama, you were elected to rehabilitate the nation, and not the Party that create the mess.
Same thing happened in ‘06 when the Dems won Congress. Expectations were high, approval was high, then the Dems started rolling over for the Republicans like chickenshits over torture and FISA. Poof! There went the approval ratings, AND the approval. Not that approval ratings are the be all and end all of what they should be after, but it certainly does indicate you are doing SOMETHING wrong….
Hopefully these numbers will resonate with the White House and Congressional leaders when they sit down at the bargaining table in September.
Kinda what I’ve suspected all along. BigO’s support is dropping mainly due to loss of enthusiasm among his natural constituency. Too much ***-kissing on the GOOPers and not enough bully-pulpit denunciation of the liars for what they are.
So, we’ve all heard talk about the Dems’ plans to run a media campaign against the health-insurance industry. Great idea, but when is it gonna start? I’ve seen little evidence of it yet. Are they waiting for the right moment? If so, it’d better be soon.
You can add some interesting, somewhat related data from this Gallup poll:
“But even Obama’s political base has doubts about his being able to hold the line on income taxes — 48% of Democrats expect their taxes to rise during his first term. More than 7 in 10 independents and 9 in 10 Republicans agree.”
http://www.gallup.com/poll/122411/Americans-Expect-Income-Tax-Hike-Obama.aspx
Yeah, I expect my taxes to go up, they’ve been too low.
When “the left of the left” comprises 77% of America, then we have a problem with the White House playing footsie with the corporatist whores who want to defeat meaningful reforms.
We want backbone, we’ve had way too much of the spineless Dems in DC already. No more cover for the Blue Dogs either. Sometimes you gotta fight.
We wanted FDR got Obama and a shitload of Repugs in his administration instead.
@kathleen: You and tena!
But that’s not really the point, as the link makes clear:
“That damage occurred even though, as in the case of Obama, most Americans expected during the early part of Bush’s presidency that he would not be able to avoid raising taxes. Thus, Bush appears to have been harmed not by his decision to raise taxes as much as by his not being able to live up to his campaign pledge.”
What ever happened to the vaunted Team Obama rapid response operation, that would not let any outrageous attack go for a single a news cycle, with out hitting back fast and fully.
Where is it in the health debate. Their response to the “Death Panels” Big Lie, has been very slow, and very feeble.
What happened. Did they really believe that once the won the election, that the opposition would stop behaving like they always have.
On another note:
Health Care Is a Moral Imperative. By Roger Ebert.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/08/im_safe_on_board_you_can_pull.html
It is a must read. Do not miss it, and pass it on to all of your contacts.
Olympia Snowe publicly acknowledges the Finance Committee’s bill contains no public option at all (unless “co-ops” is a public option in disguise).
@ sbj, hold up! You’ve already discredit DailyKos and Research 2000. We can’t add any related data to it since you hate them.
Or is it you agree with Research 2000 when it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy?
You can add some data from the Pew poll, as well:
“Democrats continue to express positive views of their own party, but favorable ratings have slipped from 91% in April to 85% now.”
http://people-press.org/report/536/white-house-gop-leaders-at-odds
And yet, Republicans are still twice as unpopular as Democrats.
Maybe now that the numbers are dropping Democrats will remember they are Democrats and actually read the party platform. It is time to pay as much respect to their constituencies as they pay to the corporate overlords.
Maybe this is good news and will get the attention of Obama’s team. No politician wants to lose his/her base, and that’s what this poll shows. It says Democrats are disappointed in Obama’s approach. Republicans only back down when you show your teeth and fight back.
“When “the left of the left” comprises 77% of America,”
Will you let us know when that day comes? Keep watch. We’ll be waiting.
President Obama is too nice and accomodating to Repugs who trash him seemingly on a daily basis. Meanwhile his Liberal base fight daily for exactly what they thought President Obama said he stood for during the election. It’s tiring to fight both sides in the war. I thought Healthcare Reform was about the 46 million Americans who have no Health Insurance. I guess I was wrong.
If only Nancy Pelosi would take that gavel and knock some sense into them. She has been my hero throughout this whole healthcare debate. I’m a confused and dejected left-of-left.
I like how you are trying to blame this on “concessions to Republicans” when everyone knows the concessions are being made for the sake of the Blue Dog Democrats in the House and the “conservative” democrats in the Senate.
If you have forgotten, Obama doesn’t need ONE single Republican vote to get a bill passed.
Such a usefule blog –wow !!!!