What's the deal.....

...with Obama's falling poll numbers this month? Unemployment fell (although a smaller amount) this month, and news reports are showing that consumer confidence is rising. What's happened in the last few weeks that's gotten people upset?
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I'm not saying Obama is perfect, but the thought of a tea-baggers taking over the country next year is even more scary than the tornadoes that blew through near my house last night!
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We cannot just assume we'll win next year because the opposition may put up a bad candidate. A 43% percent approval rating with 48% disapproving (per Gallup) is the sign of real vulnerability. Equally disgusting is that the public still wants the Affordable Care Act repealed by a 53% to 40% margin. We appear to have made ZERO headway in the past year trying to change people's minds about it. The Supreme Court judges may be encouraged to strike down the law based on the public sentiment alone.

People are hurting...and they look at the name at the top and that's who gets the blame. Unemployment numbers only matter when you're one of them and haven't been able to find a job...ANY job for months or even years. We are suffering a sharp rise in basic expenses with little way of making up the shortfall. Wages are stagnant and prospect don't look good.

Yes, this is making this President unpopular and vulnerable. He's lucky the rushpublicans are so screwed up and have jumped off the cliff with their draconian Ryan scam and union busting. But if we see unemployment and fuel/living expenses high next year, this President could become a Carter. While we can point to the previous regime as the cause of this problem, the American public and the corporate media have shown extremely short term memory. This is Obama's economy and his re-election will ride on how its performing in November, 2012.

Thanks for the honest insight. I wish there was something Obama could personally do to help get gas prices down and make this recovery grow faster. I mean, he inherited this horrible mess and yet the so-called "liberal" media is allowing him to take the blame for it.

...or at least shouldn't. The corporate media loves to blame every little problem on this administration and eager to call it incompetent if it doesn't get the officials dancing and the right things said. The truth doesn't matter here...it's all emotion and feelings (just like how many people vote).

While I'd love to a massive windfall profit tax thrown on the oil companies and their subsidies removed, there's no political will inside the betlway to pass such legislation through a totally dysfunctional House and Senate. Thus even if the President wants to do something, a bill will never get to his desk.

Eventually the prices will go down as the economy slows further as people spend more on gas and basics and less on luxuary items. Demand will drop as manufacturing worldwide slows down. We live in a consumer economy where our consumption now drives the world economy. If we can't or don't buy the global economy feels it...and it will. And Obama will again get the blame...from right and left.

Cheers...

Those Wall Strret economic numbers simply do not reflect the economic realities of Main Street America. Main Street really doesn't care that the official unemployment numbers are falling because job creation is inadequate to provide employment for new workforce entrants. That means the job market is really continuing to tighten. It is not improving.

Main Street hasn't seen anything make a direct positive impact on the demands of their daily life since Obama took office. Most of these people live on the edge paycheck to paycheck. Their lives are precarious. They do not have the luxury of waiting for the long-game to play out. But their daily lives have gotten more difficult. Just look at gas and utility prices and property taxes and the difficulty in gettig credit and.......

The number for right direction/wrong direction is 26% of the people think the country is headed in the right direction versus 70% of the people think its going in the wrong direction.

Those numbers have been bad ever since the start of 2010 and have gotten worse.

I think the republicans have a very good shot of beating him in 2012 because of his weaknesses and overall lack of vision and strong leadership.

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