Obama polls as worst President in 80 years.

[+DieChecker]

http://www.washingto...new-poll-shows/

Poll after poll has charted President Obama’s dipping approval rating in recent months, but Wednesday brought perhaps the cruelest cut to date: A new Quinnipiac University survey found that voters rate Mr. Obama as the country’s worst president since World War II.

Mr President, Mr Obama, has been taking a lot of political beatings lately, but I still find it hard to believe that those who voted him in not even two years ago are starting to turn on him in numbers enough to make him the worst polling president in over 80 years.

Not looking good for the Dems in November.

And for the Reagan haters.......

As much as voters are down on President Obama, the star of former President Ronald Reagan continues to soar. The two-term California Republican was rated as the best of the 12 presidents who have served since Franklin Delano Roosevelt by 35 percent of the voters polled by Quinnipiac, just short of twice the number of second-place Bill Clinton at 18 percent. John Kennedy came in third in the “best category” at 15 percent and Mr. Obama was fourth at 8 percent. No other chief executive got above 5 percent support.

Edited July 3, 2014 by DieChecker

[bubblykiss]

To be fair he came into office promising change and "Yes We Can".

Now he is using executive privilege as often as he can since he is a failure as a leader of politicians.

And on top of that he is sending combat troops Back To Iraq......shutter.......

[Sundew]

http://www.washingto...new-poll-shows/

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Mr President, Mr Obama, has been taking a lot of political beatings lately, but I still find it hard to believe that those who voted him in not even two years ago are starting to turn on him in numbers enough to make him the worst polling president in over 80 years.

Not looking good for the Dems in November.

Well, to you first point, over the last few months Obama has freed five terrorists for a supposed deserter, has presided over a worsening refugee situation on our border and a rising terror threat in Iraq. Also on his watch: Benghazi and the 'video' nonsense, Lois Lerner and the IRS debacle, and these are just a few things swirling around him. These events seem to come on nearly a weekly basic, we are barely out of one scandal before another, then another, pops up. Under such circumstances, it's not unreasonable that even his own party is finding it harder and harder to support him.

To your second point, the Democrats are indeed very likely to take a shellacking this November, unless the GOP does some really stupid to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, which they have been known to do. Generally speaking it is the party not in power that does best in a mid term election. Combine that with our teetering economy, massive debt, and the above mentioned problems with the Obama administration and you have the potential for a sweeping change in Washington come November.

Still, at least Jimmy Carter is happy to be off the hook now.

Edited July 3, 2014 by Sundew

[Imaginarynumber1]

Well, to you first point, over the last few months Obama has freed five terrorists for a supposed deserter, has presided over a worsening refugee situation on our border and a rising terror threat in Iraq. Also on his watch: Benghazi and the 'video' nonsense, Lois Lerner and the IRS debacle, and these are just a few things swirling around him. These events seem to come on nearly a weekly basic, we are barely out of one scandal before another, then another, pops up. Under such circumstances, it's not unreasonable that even his own party is finding it harder and harder to support him.

It's not like every other president hasn't had issue after issue. Beside, we also have the worst congress we have ever had.

That being said, I really had higher hopes for Obama's second term.

[MysticStrummer]

I really had higher hopes for Obama's second term.

Not me. I'm a liberal and didn't vote for Obama either time. Our system is broken, though it's probably more accurate to say it's been hacked. We have a very thinly veiled corporate oligarchy that's doing a great job of dividing and conquering the population while it spreads like a cancer to other places in the world.

[+and-then]

Well, to you first point, over the last few months Obama has freed five terrorists for a supposed deserter, has presided over a worsening refugee situation on our border and a rising terror threat in Iraq. Also on his watch: Benghazi and the 'video' nonsense, Lois Lerner and the IRS debacle, and these are just a few things swirling around him. These events seem to come on nearly a weekly basic, we are barely out of one scandal before another, then another, pops up. Under such circumstances, it's not unreasonable that even his own party is finding it harder and harder to support him.

To your second point, the Democrats are indeed very likely to take a shellacking this November, unless the GOP does some really stupid to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, which they have been known to do. Generally speaking it is the party not in power that does best in a mid term election. Combine that with our teetering economy, massive debt, and the above mentioned problems with the Obama administration and you have the potential for a sweeping change in Washington come November.

Still, at least Jimmy Carter is happy to be off the hook now.

Spot on analysis. The potential defeat from victory scenario might involve this lawsuit of Boehner. Attacking Oby is not good policy at this point. Let him be hoist on his own petard - no one else needs to set any explosives for him. (metaphorically speaking, NSA)

[Duelix]

Obama has been the best president in more recent years. By my analysis the best since Bill Clinton, I hope Hillary gets in in 2016. He has tried to give lower income Americans healthcare and isn't afraid to tell congress to screw off. Why should he wait for a bunch of people who can't make up their minds t tell him what to do. I wish Obama could come be prime minister in Canada, he'd be a hell of a lot better than what we have now.

[Wendigo Wangs]

Obama has been the best president in more recent years. By my analysis the best since Bill Clinton, I hope Hillary gets in in 2016. He has tried to give lower income Americans healthcare and isn't afraid to tell congress to screw off. Why should he wait for a bunch of people who can't make up their minds t tell him what to do. I wish Obama could come be prime minister in Canada, he'd be a hell of a lot better than what we have now.

Thanks for the laugh.

[GPAW]

I'm laughing with Alien Embryo

[MiskatonicGrad]

Obama has been the best president in more recent years. By my analysis the best since Bill Clinton, I hope Hillary gets in in 2016. He has tried to give lower income Americans healthcare and isn't afraid to tell congress to screw off. Why should he wait for a bunch of people who can't make up their minds t tell him what to do. I wish Obama could come be prime minister in Canada, he'd be a hell of a lot better than what we have now.

I'll mail him the plane/bus ticket tomorrow just tell me where and when you want to pick him up!

[questionmark]

I guess that has more to do with the short memory of those polled than with actual achievements or non-achievements of the current Prezz.

[Sundew]

It's not like every other president hasn't had issue after issue. Beside, we also have the worst congress we have ever had.

That being said, I really had higher hopes for Obama's second term.

Every other president HAS had issue after issue, the difference is that a good deal of these are self-inflicted wounds.

I had zero hope for his second term, especially after seeing his first term. His demeanor reminds me of a spoiled petulant child. It's his way or the highway, i.e., "I've got a phone and pen." If George W. Bush gave us debt, Obama has doubled it, race relations in the U.S. have deteriorated, real unemployment may be as high as 15% when you figure in those who have given up even looking for a job. Our on again, off again foreign policy under Obama has the Middle East in more chaos, if that is possible, our enemies mock us and our allies don't trust us. A crisis arrises and presto, Obama's flying off on vacation or playing golf. I'm old enough to remember seeing JFK's assassination on television (though at the time I was too young to understand what was going on) so I have lived through quite a few U.S. Presidents and I have never seen anything like him, and not in a good way.

Edited July 3, 2014 by Sundew

[spartan max2]

If Obama followed through with alot of his civil rights, foreign policy, debt limit and executive power views that he claimed to have when he first ran in 2008 then he would of been a pretty decent president. Specially over Mccain. Who people voted for the first time wasent who they got. How they voted for him again i will never know.

But alas he turned out to be one of the worst

Hopefully in 2016 people dont make the same mistake with Hillary

[Rafterman]

I guess that has more to do with the short memory of those polled than with actual achievements or non-achievements of the current Prezz.

Yes, we're all just too stupid to realize that he's been a great POTUS.

[aztek]

Hopefully in 2016 people dont make the same mistake with Hillary

people never made that mistakes, individual votes do not matter in prez election, only electorial votes matter, and this is not my imagination,

The President and Vice President are not elected directly by the voters. Instead, they are elected by "electors" who are chosen by popular vote on a state-by-state basis.

[supervike]

I guess that has more to do with the short memory of those polled than with actual achievements or non-achievements of the current Prezz.

Yep, that's the point I was going to make.

We always seem to think our current president is the 'worst' ever.

I think we are fortunate that polls don't often make reality.