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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.
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,
Looking at my investment portfolio I'd say it's pretty damn great actually. No new wars, bin Laden is dead. Now if only we could get rid of the tea baggers in congress and replace them with rational conservatives who want to do their jobs we'd have a country again.
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.
Obama's numbers are in the tank. Congress numbers are in the sub-basement. Everybody needs to wake up - the public, the politicians, this president, the next president, everyone. Discontent has a way of turning into something much worse if everyone doesn't wake the f up and get their acts together.
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...
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,
It's pretty bad. 13% of that is African American who like him only because he is black. He gets low scores from every single other demographic. Offhand calculation: he gets a 31% approval from the non-black population.
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.
Those politicians you're referring to already did something. They forced some fiscal responsibility on the children you support. It was a start but more still needs to be done.
Remember that the next time you start to congradulate Obama on reducing the deficits. He went kicking and screaming in that direction. Maybe you remember the dire consequences predicted by him and his cohorts about sequestration. The kicking and screaming might not have been too bad but then he had the unmitigated gall to take credit for those deficit reductions.
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.
It wasn't only that. But yes, the reasons were largely shallow and not compelling.
Besides, he's only half black.
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