Friday, December 12, 2008
2008 Great Expectations
Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Americans still love poll brother number one:
More than a month after his November victory, President-elect Barack Obama is enjoying a larger post-election honeymoon with the American public than his recent predecessors did, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll....Indeed, the poll shows Obama with a 67 percent to 16 percent positive/negative rating. That’s compared with the 48 percent to 35 percent rating Bush had in December 2000 and Clinton’s 60 percent to 19 percent rating in December 1992....
In addition, 48 percent believe that Bush will go down as one of the country’s worst presidents. Only 18 percent said that of Clinton, and just 6 percent said that of George H.W. Bush.
Democratic pollster Peter Hart says the Blagojevich fiasco will have "zero" impact on Obama, reports the Christian Science Monitor. "I don’t think it is Obama-related and that voters are going to see it that way.”
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The way Bush is currently doing everything he can to destroy his legacy, I'm thinking he WANTS to go down as the worst president ever.
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Obama enjoying post-election honeymoon... check. The polling data supports that claim.
Bush going down as one of the worst presidents, ever... check. The polling data supports that as well. In fact, the two are most likely related. One of the reasons Obama is unusually popular is a backlash to Bush being unusually unpopular.
Blagojevich having zero impact on Obama? Not so much. Pure conjecture, which Hart himself says is a guess. I'd call it wishful thinking.
Blogo is good theater, but he is a democrat, and his actions tarnish democrats in general, at least a little bit. And the right wingers are trying as hard as they can to spin some sort of connection between Blogo and Obama, or Blogo and the whole democratic party. Sure, most of us know that's bullshit. But there will be at least a small percentage of people out there who will buy it, and will trust Obama less than they did last week. It may not be a whole lot of people, but it won't be "zero".
Bush going down as one of the worst presidents, ever... check. The polling data supports that as well. In fact, the two are most likely related. One of the reasons Obama is unusually popular is a backlash to Bush being unusually unpopular.
Blagojevich having zero impact on Obama? Not so much. Pure conjecture, which Hart himself says is a guess. I'd call it wishful thinking.
Blogo is good theater, but he is a democrat, and his actions tarnish democrats in general, at least a little bit. And the right wingers are trying as hard as they can to spin some sort of connection between Blogo and Obama, or Blogo and the whole democratic party. Sure, most of us know that's bullshit. But there will be at least a small percentage of people out there who will buy it, and will trust Obama less than they did last week. It may not be a whole lot of people, but it won't be "zero".
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I think 50 years from now Bush will still be remembered as being the most incompetent and worst president in the history of the Union.
At least, by the tin-foil robots that will be our overlords then.
At least, by the tin-foil robots that will be our overlords then.
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Those uppidy Obamas are so full of themselves, that want to move into Blair House early. How rude!
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peace and love
America will give Obama a chance
the economy will get uglier, however; much uglier
then peace and love will evaporate
America will give Obama a chance
the economy will get uglier, however; much uglier
then peace and love will evaporate
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