Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they disapprove of the way the president is handling the situation at the pump, where rising prices have already hit hard. Just 26 percent approve of his work on the issue, his lowest rating in the poll. Most Americans say higher prices are already taking a toll on family finances, and nearly half say they think that prices will continue to rise, and stay high. – Obama’s momentum stalls as gas prices spike – Washington Post
Obama’s 50% approval rating sure didn’t last very long. Blame gas prices, everyone else is.
However, when asked who cares more about issues that matter most to women, Pres. Obama beats Republicans 55 to 30, which is a massive shift from the 2010 midterms.
I’ll let you extrapolate the lessons for yourselves.
It goes to what I wrote over the weekend, that now isn’t November. Once a nominee is picked, if Republicans are smart, and they’ve got nowhere to go but up, they’ll turn on a dime and make November a referendum on Pres. Obama.
Voters are fickle and people will start moving on how they feel, which is what voting is about. It’s very seldom fueled by what’s in a voter’s actual best interest, as Rush Limbaugh has proven over many years through his gullible audience, most of whom the Republican Party sells out yearly by stacking the economic deck against them.
Presidential elections are about how people feel about their own lives and the prospects the future holds. We know people like Pres. Obama, but that only goes so far, especially when you’re paying $5/gallon for gas, which is very hard on the psyche in America.
Experts believes gas prices are headed even higher as summer approaches.
So, it’s no wonder Obama reelect is launching a major offensive to target female voters. Women may be Obama’s only line against a very nervous Election Day.
However, no one should kid themselves. Women aren’t one-issue voters, with economic issues driving their reality more than ever before. The White House will have to stay diligent on fronts well beyond “women’s issues”, with the renewed efforts to tap into female voters revealing they know it.
The cowardice of moderate and liberal Republicans who fear a primary challenge can be explained by a poll that asked Republican Mississipians and Alabamians for their primary preferance in tomorrows Republican primary.Romney, Santorum and Gingrich each drew about 1/3rd of the non Ron Paul voters preferences. 97% of registered Republicans are white. 52% believe that President Obama is a Muslim and over 60% of respondants believe that evolutionary science is a hoax.
The cowardice of Republicans like Orrin Hatch anbd Dick Lugar and the Republican Oklahoma congressional delegation is explained in this poll:
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_SouthernSwing_312.pdf.
Republicans forget that gas prices are the product of global demand. In the summer of 2008 gas prioces rose above $4.00 per gallon. When the global financial crises occured in September 2008 global HGDP plummetted, -9% in the US and higher in Europe. Global demand by India, China and Brazil also saw negative growth. The plumetting of global energy demand saw a cratering of the price of a barrel of oil with US gasoline prices plumetting to $1.89 by the time President Obama took office.
They don’t “forget,” they see the polls and punch where Obama’s numbers make him vulnerable.
I disagree with Sen. Lugar on many things, but calling him a “coward” is a bit much.
Dishonest, disdainful of the Constitution,a liar yes…but not a coward.
1. Oil prices no longer have much to do with global demand; most of it is speculation on wall street and the speculators are not hiding in the shadows either; they are pension funds and insurance companies and big investment banks.
2. I simply do not understand why Obama and his people would start a confrontation with Iran now. All of this could have waited until after the election. Everything was going his way, all he had to do was wait.
The president has very little to do with the day-to-day prices at the pump. Honestly, we are not omnipotent. If voters are going to to be so ignorant as to party like it’s 1899, and thus restore to the same regressive economic policies that got us into this mess in the first place, then this country will get exactly what it deserves.
Granted, life is hard right now, but mark my words, it’ll get a whole lot harder if we’re stupid in November.
By that criterion, voting for either major party candidate will be “stupid”. Neither has any intention of regulating the financial sector. On the economics front, the only difference between them is that one makes no pretense about not wanting to continue the Bush Administration’s tax policies, and the other makes the pretense but does it anyway.
On YOUR criteria then voting for the Dems is THE ONLY option because while both parties are protecting the financial sector ONLY the Dems have shown an ounce of respect for or concern about protecting the rights of the PEOPLE against psychotic UBERchristian fanatics who seek to destroy women’s and gay rights outright.
I assume you’re replying to me, even though you didn’t hit the reply button enough times…
No, you don’t understand my criteria, which are actually remarkably simple. By my criteria, there is no real difference between pretending to care about us and not caring about us.
The polls that were recently taken March10 -11 by the NY Times and Washington Post appear not to be caused by a rise in gas prices. These polls were taken when the tragic news out of Afghanistan regarding the tragic story of the Army staff seargent who murdered sixteen inoccent women and children, Obama’s decline in the polls may have reflected the depression in the public over that incident.
Since the NY TImes and Washington Post polls were published the Gallup poll and even Rasmussens daily presidential poll have seen a sudden increase in Obama’s approval ratings. Gallup went from a 43 approval rating to a 49 approval raing in the most recent poll. Rasmussens daily poll saw Obama’s approval ratings improve +5 points in the last few days back to a 49 percent approval just before the bad news from Afghanistan.
Gas prices haven’t fallen in the last few days ands both polls show Obama with a 49 per cent approval rating just where it was a week ago:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_history
http://www.gallup.com/home.aspx