Obama's "score" on working with congress? 38%....but

[SoCalDem]

The whole premise is very much akin to deriding a hostage for not being able to convince the kidnappers to free them..




http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/is-obamas-truman-esque-approach-working/2011/11/21/gIQAVdImjN_blog.html

Is Obama’s Truman-esque approach working?
Posted by Aaron Blake and Chris Cillizza at 06:30 AM ET, 11/22/2011

It’s been a few months now since President Obama started talking tougher with Republicans in Congress.
In a brief press statement Monday, President Obama pushed Congress to find a way to come together for a solution to the growing deficit, adding that middle class Americans can't afford the tax increases that would go into effect next year. And in the aftermath of the debt-reduction “supercommittee” and its failure to come to an agreement on Monday, it’s worth asking the questions: is this new, Truman-esque tactic actually working?

In policy terms: not yet. And politically, it’s not looking great either. Republicans say its backfiring, and they’ve got some ammo. A George Washington University/Politico Battleground poll released last week showed one particular area of movement for Obama. Since May, the number of people who approved of Obama’s ability to deal with Congress has dropped from 49 percent to 38 percent. And while just 44 percent disapproved of his dealings with Congress six months ago, that number has since risen to 58 percent.

On every other issue, Obama’s approval and disapproval stayed in about the same territory over that span, which leads Republicans to suggest Obama’s efforts to rail against the do-nothing Congress aren’t working.

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