SALON: What Democrats can do about Obama

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From the debt ceiling fiasco to the recent rescheduling of a jobs speech at the behest of Speaker Boehner, it has not been a good summer for President Obama. Like Chinese water torture, Gallup's daily tracking poll has shown a steady and unrelenting drip of bad news. He has been in and out of the high 30s for his approval, and in the low to mid-50s for his disapproval.

George W. Bush's approval rating didn't drop this low until Katrina hit. And on the economy, 71 percent of Americans disapprove of how Obama is doing his job. Even among reliably Democratic groups -- union households, women and young people -- he's now unpopular.

No one, not even the president's defenders, expect his coming jobs speech to mean anything. When the president spoke during a recent market swoon, the market dropped another 100 points. Democrats may soon have to confront an uncomfortable truth, and ask whether Obama is a suitable choice at the top of the ticket in 2012. They may then have to ask themselves if there's any way they can push him off the top of the ticket.

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Obama has ruined the Democratic Party. The 2010 wipeout was an electoral catastrophe so bad you'd have to go back to 1894 to find comparable losses. From 2008 to 2010, according to Gallup, the fastest growing demographic party label was former Democrat. Obama took over the party in 2008 with 36 percent of Americans considering themselves Democrats. Within just two years, that number had dropped to 31 percent, which tied a 22-year low.

FULL ARTICLE AT: http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/09/04/favoritesonsanddaughters
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Basically, the article calls for Obama not to be the nominee in 2012.

[frazzled]

1. Salon doesn't say that, Matt Stoller does.

Please understand the concept of "columnist" and be more precise about where editorial opinions are coming from. There is no indication that Salon endorses any opinions of any columnists it publishes. This is what one guy thinks: it has ZERO institutional backing.

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4. I don't make such a distinction. If Salon carries it and spreads the view...

...then it belongs to Salon.

[frazzled]

6. Well, then, you are the only one who doesn't /nt

[TwilightGardener]

2. Here's what I'm going to do about him:

Gonna cast another vote for him. And for every Dem on the ticket.

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. +1000

:thumbsup:

[yurbud]

10. I will vote for Obama, but support progressive challengers to corporate Dems down ticket

[solara]

3. I know what this Democrat is going to do about President Obama

I will happily work for him and vote for him and every other Democratic candidate



That is all.

:patriot:

[tularetom]

7. I'm disappointed but WTF am I gonna do?

Vote for a republican? No friggin way that'll happen given the cast of losers they seem to be assembing.

Stay home? Might as well vote for a republican. Nope, not gonna do that either.

Guess I'll just do what I did in 1996 when my opinion of Clinton was probably lower than my current opinion of Obama.

Yup, vote for the Dem and hope he starts acting like one.

[Skink]

8. We could push for internet voting to increase participation.

the more participation the better for the Dems.

[Scurrilous]

9. ...

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