Obama's approval among independents down drastically

In April, Obama had a 60% approval/31% disapproval among independents. Now it's 46% approval/44% disapproval.

Could this mean that people are taking Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck seriously?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124527518023424769.html#printMode

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Transparncey. Fierce advocate. End the war. Public Option to healthcare.

who learned to detest george bush, even tho he voted for him.
now, he cant stand obama..and my brother, who is a conservative, says Obama is acting too much like Bush!
he and I are agreeing for the first time in decades.

are also not happy. its not just the glen beckers. I have heard a lot of arguments "Obama needs to come to the middle to get the independents!"///and people usually mean the right wing moderates..
and I warned them..by doing that hes losing his base of progressives
and here we go....

You're talking about progressives.

there fore I am an independent voter.

What I would vote for locally would never see the light of day nationally.

NEVER!!.. MAYBE my first vote for a rethug will be next year when I vote for my Governor, Charlie Crist. and that's because he is not truly a republican. His own "base" hate him.

what may have caused this to happen.

Do you see alternatives that are better than him in four years? Do you think it's hopeless already?

Republicans have it so easy. They do the lock-step thing so well. Keeping Democrats in office is nearly impossible nowadays.

destroyed everythign and now Obama has to resolve all those fuck ups in six months. I still will give him the benefit of the doubt although my huband is pissed at him at the moment for not fully supporting public health care. I have to give him the full term to see what he accomplishes. The things he can't accomplishe and would with four more years. One thing is for sure, I will not vote for a repub for president, senator or congressmen.

of Obama in the first place.

oh noes! :cry:

The common wisdom is that independents are conservatives, but the vast majority voted for Obama last November despite the non-stop barrage from the MSM decrying how "liberal" he was.

Its likely many are disenchanted with Obama due to his constant defense of the status quo in everything from the banking meltdown to the torture issue.

I know it may come as a shock to some, but people who vote for "change" dont usually expect there to be so little changed after the election is over.

in the torture issue? I really doubt it. My guess is that the things that are driving DU insane are not the same things that are driving these independents insane.

Yes.

They see trillions going to banks with few strings (like limits on credit interest rates), then see family and friends becoming unemployed and wonder wheres the guy they voted for who sounded so sure of himself, so confident that he could solve the economic problems.

All they see so far is the fat cats staying fat while everyday life goes to shit.

which included millions of dollars to increase unemployment benefits and dozens of other efforts to keep things from sliding downwards.

Or when they go to buy gasoline after its gone up 50 days in a row.

Yep, the stimulus bill will be the first thing that comes to mind.

I mean, isnt he being accused of being a socialist because he took over GMC? he was fiercely attacked by the media. I think this all bruhaha has to do with the media prompting dick cheney all repubs all day on tv and nothing else

OPEC is a cartel that decides to cut production and drive up prices when they decide to.

I'm pretty ambivalent on interest rate caps. Some of their policies are predatory, and some are just people who don't know how to manage debt.

It was one of his talking points in town halls across the country last year when the prices went so high.

Probably changes priorities a little bit.

Letting them heal themselves by continuing to ripoff the American consumer is not productive in trying to ease a consumer led recession.

Then WHY THE FUCK DID YOU VOTE BUSH IN TWICE!!!!! People are just STUPID!

We had a budget surplus when Clinton left office in 2001. Bush spent all that money cutting taxes for his rich buddies, and spending it on wars in Iraq and Afganistan.

I never watch them. I fight them. And I've always said I am an Independent, but I don't think I've ever voted for a Republican or an Independent because the margin was too close and I've always though R's had too much nasty, unAmerican power.

I will defend Obama against any character assassinations.

But put me on the cautious list of admirers - I'm a little fearful. I may be demanding too much, too soon. But some decisions are already made and I'm not happy. It may be more with Senators and House Representatives. Between the two, I'm unnerved.

Chimpy is back on the scene making a fool of himself. Obama's numbers will shoot back to the sky. Folks were beginning to forget about the fool. Very good timing.

I was not aware that moderates or indies read the WSJ.

PLEASE.

There are two other polls out today which say he is at 60 or 61%-- Gallop is one of them.

A Wall Street Journal poll???? Gee, how scientific is that???

Bush and Bush's daddy, now is pissed at Obama after voting for him. He feels Obama has no spine to confront the, (listen to this) republicans and democrats who are opposing public health care. My husband is a Nurse and wants Public Health care to pass now. He thinks Obama is losing precious time trying to accommodate republicans and being bipartisan. It really strikes me that someone who was a republican all his life is now so anti-republican now. This, of course, is not stopping him from getting pissed at Obama for trying to please everyone instead of being forceful. He should remind every senator and congressman and the media that He WON and that he will implement the issues he ran on.

payer, mark this post... the RNC will retake congress

here. He should not run from public health care, he should enforce and remind congress that is what ppl want and voted him into office for.

He promised at that time that there would never be another "off budget" supplemental war spending bill. Here it is one month later and he again asked for and got a $105 billion "Supplemental" war spending bill "Off Budget" exactly what he promised would never happen again. He promised "Beginning on Day One" he would begin bringing troops home from Iraq "One Brigade a Month" His Promises don't seem to mean much to him..

up with this bill????

when the Obama budget kicks in.

I no longer have a very high opinion of him.. He has gone back on numerous things he promised and they are important things IMO. Do I think McCain/Palin would be better...Hell No... but I had a lot higher expectations and if this is how it is going to continue to be then all I can say is I have cast my last vote..

so, you will let rethugs take power again so we can go back 10 years? I believe your stand is not a good one to take. Sometimes for us to see real change, we must take our fight by contacting our congressmen and the media. I believe Obama has said countless of times, - make me do it- meaning, raise your voices, "I can't do it alone".

Independents tend to be either libertarians (who probably were the original 31% disapprovals among independents), and people to the left of the DLC folks. Both parties have been moving to the right over the last several decades, leaving people who are truly on the left behind.

Those folks were likely happy with Obama's election and thrilled to be rid of Bush, but increasingly unhappy with his stance on equal rights, human rights, accountability, bailouts, Iraq, Afghanistan, health care, and so on.