President Barack Obama gets a lackluster 49 - 44 percent approval rating in Ohio, considered by many to be the most important swing state in a presidential election, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. This is President Obama's lowest approval rating in any national or statewide Quinnipiac University poll since he was inaugurated and is down from 62 - 31 percent in a May 6 survey.
By a small 48 - 46 percent margin, voters disapprove of the way Obama is handling the economy, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds. This is down from a 57 - 36 percent approval May 6. A total of 66 percent of Ohio voters are "somewhat dissatisfied" or "very dissatisfied" with the way things are going in the state, while 33 percent are "very satisfied" or "somewhat satisfied," numbers that haven't changed since Obama was elected.
"The economy in Ohio is as bad as anywhere in America. These numbers indicate that for the first time voters have decided that President Barack Obama bears some responsibility for their problems," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. ....
Which is true. When Obama whipped for TARP, he started pumping blood into the zombies, and he hasn't stopped yet. Unlike most Presidents, Obama's point of maximum leverage was not in his first term, or even his first 100 days, but in the window between the point where he pulled away in the campaign, and his actual election.
"Now, by a 48 - 46 percent margin, Ohio independent voters give the President a failing grade on the economy. These numbers indicate that he may be losing, at least for now, some of those who voted for him in November and should be an indication to the White House that his honeymoon with the voters may be ending."
I'd like to send this one out to the fans...
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Since October 2008
or as I like to call it TARP Month, Ohio's unemployment has gone from 6.6% to 10.4%.
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt
I wonder what Obama's #'s will be when CA goes into meltdown
Across the nation, but particularly in CA. The demographics of that state are even more telling than OH.
I'm still hoping against hope that somehow CA is bailed out (even though Obama himself said, "No").
California is 1/5 of our economy
if it goes it take the rest of us down with it.
1/5? truly 20%?
do you have a link? because if so, that's bigger than the roughly 1/6 of the economy that we can't disturb by going to single payer.
California's economy is the sixth biggest, IIRC, in the
world.
Here's a link to some of its current features.
Single payer would help California's economy, too.
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
Ohio
Ohio's always been a foreign political landscape for me to make sense of. I think it's electorate is more conservative than Ohioans like to believe, to be honest. Just across the border, here in Michigan, with an economy even worse off than Ohio's by quite a bit (14.9% unemployment in May versus Ohio's 10.4%) and Obama is still pulling a 61% approval rating.
I guess what the Ohio number shows, if anything, is that he's losing indepedents (which was inevitable), but the Michigan number shows he's not losing his true believers.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
Good response...
So tracking MI and OH in comparison would be an interesting exercise.
OTOH, OH is a swing state...
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi