Thank goodness 163% of us liberals approve, obviously we are not the problem in these poor numbers.
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More bad news for President Obama in today's Washington Post/ABC News poll.
The sense of deflation is particularly apparent among Democrats, with nearly two-thirds saying things are pretty seriously off on the wrong track. The percentage of Democrats saying things are headed in the right direction has cratered from 60 percent at the start of the year to 32 percent now.
Among political independents — a prime target of Obama’s new outreach — 78 percent see the country as off-kilter. The percentage saying so in January 2009 was 79 percent. Pessimism was even higher among independents — and everyone else — during the depth of the financial crisis in late 2008. But for Obama, things are back to square one.
Obama’s overall approval rating is down 11 percentage points from the start of the year. The only other time a majority disapproved of his handling of the presidency in Post-ABC polling was a year agoafter another rough summer.
For the first time, fewer than half of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 give the president positive marks. Young voters broke overwhelmingly for Obama in 2008, but just 47 percent of those under age 30 now approve of the way he is doing his job; just as many disapprove.
It's hard to see how President Obama can win re-election if Democrats don't think the country is going in the right direction, independents thing the economy sucks, and a minority of young people approve of his job performance.
http://www.americablog.com/2011/09/only-32-fo-democrats-approve-of.html?m=1