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JustTheFacts


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In Obama We Don't Trust (Pittsburgh Trib Rev 9/13/09)
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The problem for President Barack Obama and Democrats is that, in poll after poll, Main Street does not trust them. Republicans are not exempt, either; while Dems keep sliding in the polls, the GOP is recording no parallel gain.

On the eve of Obama's health-care pitch to Congress and the country last week, an Associated Press-GfK poll highlighted his fall from grace: A whopping 52 percent of the country disapproved of his handling of health-care reform.

"I can't emphasize enough how bad it is for a politician to lose trust," says Democrat pollster Pat Caddell, a former senior adviser to President Jimmy Carter.

"What is remarkable in all of the polls is when the president loses support, voters don't go from 'approving' to 'somewhat disapproving,'" Caddell explains. "They jump right to 'strongly disapprove.'"

A passionate old-school liberal, Caddell has never seen anything like this: "I am not quite sure what this means long-term for my party, but it can't be good."

The danger for Obama, he says, is among independents. "He lost his Republican support fairly quickly. That is not unusual. But to see independent voters flee, so quickly and hard, is striking.

"And now what you are seeing is Democrats moving away, too."

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/zito/s_642720.html

Despite the nonstop parade of Obama surrogates, including the vice president, touting the stimulus package at staged campaign-style town hall meetings, no one on Main Street has seen anything resembling stimulus-package recovery projects in their neighborhoods.

Drive across Pennsylvania, and you see plenty of shiny new "Recovery Act" road signs promoting "your stimulus money hard at work" -- yet for miles in either direction, no evidence exists of any construction work.

The president started off with a great many people hoping he would be what he said he wanted to be, what they wanted him to be -- someone who would unify the country, tackle its problems and "solve it" for America.

Oh, and that he would be a great leader.

"That was the core of his support, to change the status quo," Caddell says, adding that the polls show, across the board, that he has not delivered.



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Excellent article and very true. 

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um.. speaking as a newly registered independent... these fools thought that people voting for him were getting an anti-Bush... but this bozo in the WH is not really that much of anti-Bush.. but unlike Bush... he is anti-US and anti-US values.. and blantantly so

americans know we have problems here in this country... but they don't want to change the country to some socialist country.. they wanted change to mean to got back to following the US constitution.

Hillary would have expanded the undemocratic party, b/c she was a moderate.. very consertive when it comes to national security and fiscal policy... as for Obama.. he will single handedly shrink the undemocratic party..

you notice.. people are not going from dims to repubs... they are going from dims to independents..

if the repubs act like conservatives.. which is actually american values... things like responsible fiscal policy, strong national security, no judicial activism, fair play...you screw up, you fail and file for bankcruptcy and start over again.. no bailouts!

.. they call these values conservatism.... but in fact these are american values... and this is what americans what...

this is why people are becoming independent.. country-first american.. both parties are corrupt.. any indies or dims or repubs who thought that fraud in the WH would deliver the values I listed above as "change" are severely disappointed and mad... which is why they are going to "strongly disapprove" and many are just leaving the undemocratic party.

-- Edited by ssmith on Sunday 13th of September 2009 07:39:09 PM

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