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Published September 17, 2011
| FoxNews.com
But February made me shiver
With every paper I’d deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldn’t take one more step.
"American Pie"
President Obama got his own bad news on the doorstep at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It came not in February but September – on page one of The New York Times no less.
With every paper I’d deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldn’t take one more step.
"American Pie"
President Obama got his own bad news on the doorstep at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It came not in February but September – on page one of The New York Times no less.
Under a headline that read, “In Poll, Support for Obama Slips Among Base,” this is how the story began:
“President Obama’s
support is eroding among elements of his base, and a yearlong effort to
recapture the political center has failed to attract independent voters,
according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll,
leaving him vulnerable at a moment when pessimism over the country’s
direction is greater than at any other time since he took office.”
It’s a safe bet that bad news like that is making a lot of folks in the West Wing shiver.
The poll came out just a few days after the
president got a double dose of bad news when Democrats lost two special
elections for House seats in New York and Nevada. “Both races turned
into a referendum on President Obama, who again proved how unpopular he
is,” as Karl Rove put it in the Wall Street Journal.
The New York district, Charles Schumer
and Andrew Weiner’s old district in Queens, has been in Democratic
hands since 1923. If a Democrat can lose in that district, a Democrat
can lose anywhere. And they know it!
Just one day after those twin losses, a
Field Poll came out in California, where the president has always done
well, no matter how crummy he had been doing on less friendly places.
Not anymore.
“For the first time since Obama became
president in January 2009, fewer than half (46 percent) of California
voters approve of his performance as president -- a figure that's
dropped eight percentage points in three months,” as The San Francisco
Chronicle put it.
There’s more.
A Bloomberg poll shows that a majority of
Americans don’t believe the president’s $447 billion job plan will help
lower the unemployment rate – and, according to Bloomberg, “Americans
disapprove of his handling of the economy by 62 percent to 33 percent.”
As they might say in Shumer and Weiner’s old district, which is heavily Jewish: “Oy Vey.”
According to the New York Times/CBS News poll,
Obama is losing support all over the place – especially among the group
he most needs -- independents. According to the Times:
“The president’s support
has fallen to its lowest levels across parts of the diverse coalition of
voters who elected him, from women to suburbanites to college
graduates. And a persistent effort over the past year to reclaim his
appeal to independent voters has shown few changes of bearing fruit, with 59 percent of this critical electoral group voicing there disapproval.”
Compare that to 2008, when Barack Obama won the independents 52 percent to 44 percent for John McCain.
Here’s the president’s dilemma: If he tries
to drum up support among his progressive base, he will lose even more
independents. If he tries to win the independents, his base will become
even more disillusioned.
Bad news on the doorstep, indeed.
Bad news on the doorstep, indeed.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/17/bad-news-for-obama-from-new-york-times/#ixzz1YE49GRpB
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