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Don't hold your breath. Fully 50% of your population are living on EBT along with some other form of Gubmint assistance. You think they'll vote Repugnican just so you guys can buy silencers for your pocket soothers? Ain't gonna happen Gomer.
Really?
Excluding Social Security, 7 % recieve TANF and other direct cash benefits and most are children.
The biggest chunk of that 49% are the elderly, Social Security, Medicare, Housing vouchers and SNAP. That chunk grows by 10,000+/- a day.
Last I checked Seniors are more likely to vote Republican and make it clear, hands off their benefits.
Compared with other Presidents, at this point in their Presidencies, Obama has average approval ratings. Half of post WW2 Presidents have higher ratings and half have lower.
No, they don't all need to go. All that needs to happen is to go to those districts that have been gerry rigged and balance them out. Then the tea baggers in congress who won't do anything wont' get elected as the viability of a candidate will become more important than just appealing to the base.
The mainstream people in congress and the senate are fine. It's the tea baggers who are the problem.
A complete load of garbage you just spewed. Your hatred for the tea party blinds you to the real problems in Government.
While Republicans do poll lower, Democrats still poll with 46% dissapproval. So Yes they ALL have to go.
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In addition, Americans hold congressional Republicans in lower regard (19
percent favorable, 54 percent unfavorable) than congressional Democrats (31
percent favorable, 46 percent unfavorable).
The US people have a substantially better lifestyle than the majority of people on earth.
Apples to Apples.
Let's compare first world nations only.
If we do that we will find the number of US people who have a substantially better lifestyle is a very small amount compared to the population. ie. "the 1%"
A rating of 40% approval at this stage in a Presidency is not so bad. George Bush II had a rating in the low 30s after his plan to privatize Social Security had flopped and Brownie did a Heck of a Job in New orleans. Harry Trumans approval reached 29 % when he left office in 1953 burdened with the Korean War and the Red scare. After the Tet Offensive LBJ had only a 30% rating (A factor in his near loss to Gene McCarthy a few weeks later in NH and why LBJ withdrew from the 1968 nomination race) and Jimmy Carter had similarly low ratings after the failed rescue mission in 1980. Guess what Dick Nixon was polling in the summer of 1974. (Nixon got down to about 27%. a week before his resignation ) Of that 40% for Obama when broken down by party or independent he still polls 70-75% favorable among Democrats,
St Reagan polled at 35% approval at its lowest point.
Bush 1 polled at 29% and Bush 2 at 25%.
It's the modern curse of most second term presidents.
And politician's approval ratings will stay that way for decades to come with the exception of the optimistic honeymoon every politician gets. People will start to realize politicians can't really fix the problems they're facing. They can make promises but they will always fail. Soon the boogeyman will be India and then C. Eurasia and then MENA and the Sub-Saharan Africa. By that time demand for resources will be increasing the cost of everything for everyone and then everyone will get to enjoy the scarcity of resources.
You do have some options though. Murdering half the planet can reset those real problems temporarily. Colonizing another planet might be another option. Or, everyone could start learning to do more with less.
Sounds like Good Times are right around the corner...
I don't believe it was. If obama was white he would have won. Why are we making this about race.
Seriously?? Race had absolutely nothing to do with it?? You have people who never voted in their entire life wheeled into voting centers or hanging onto their walkers so they could vote for the first time. Guess who they were voting for?
Obama was elected because he was Black. He was a feel good story but the problem was he was merely a token Black man without any real experience other than community organizer. He is an example of why I hate Affirmative Action.
He was elected because the McCain/ Palin ticket was unpopular.
I think it was intentional. The GOP did not want to win in 2008. It was safer to sit back and blame.
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