I recently heard (radio) that Obama's approval rating at this point in time is the third highest ever (After the two Bushs). Can anyone confirm that with any of the many polls out there? From my bit of research I found this false.
Obama can just raise the terror alerts during the next election. We know the formula works thanks to Bush.
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-presapp0605-31.html If it is indeed at about 51%, that seems to be about dead center in the overall ratings over the last 50 years or so. The interesting thing about that chart to me is how dynamic it is. No president ever hovers at any percent for terribly long. You're always either climbing or falling.
So all Obama has to do is drop a nuke or fabricate a war in the Mid East to reach the 90s. Jesus he could do both and probably get up into the 180s.
Nah, if you look at all the Democrats, they don't get bumps when they commit to military actions. Truman's first popularity rating happened a year after he dropped the nuke, so I don't see that counting. Kennedy dropped after Bay of Pigs, rebounding a bit after the Missile Crisis. LBJ dropped pretty hard after committing troops to Vietnam and the Tet Offensive. Clinton either held steady or dropped when the Balkans got hairy. Reagan after Grenada got a bump up in 83. Same with Nicaragua in 89, but on small scales. Bush Sr didn't get the benefit of fabricating Iraq's invasion/rape/takeover of Kuwait until he actually started bombing things, looks like. And then kept going down when we pulled out early. Bush Jr's highest ratings seemed to be after he "fabricated" 9/11, not when he went to the UN to fabricate the Iraq war in 2003 (tiny bump there). Since Obama's already had his "high" moment, I'm hoping that he doesn't have a huge low coming up, but that's what the data's been showing over the last 11 presidents. Actually, it seems that those who have the highest highs also have the lowest lows. Everyone's been within the same 35-point or so swing...except for Truman and the Bushes. The interesting question is: why is that?
I'm hoping by the time the next election occurs, there will be a lot more complete analysis of the stimulus package and maybe even a non-partisan consensus of the package (if it worked) I'm hoping the same thing with the whatever action is taken on the healthcare issue. I am feeling much more upbeat about the economy these days . . . there used to be a time people were talking about a possible great depression.
its still coming, but they're making it worse by taking on mountains of extra debt and being owned by China.
I don't want to break your hopes, dreams, and aspirations, but we were already well-owned by China (and the Middle East). Barring a massive scale back of the budget by, say, 70%, I don't think you'll see us ever climb out of where we were before the stimulus.
yeah, but with the stimulus, we are even more so...in 50 years are we going to have street signs with chinese lettering on them? perhaps.
Yes, throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at the "National Endowment for the Arts" is going to keep us from a worldwide economic collapse and worldwide apocalypse.
Runaway inflation! That's the ticket! Let's make the numbers that seem crazy high now seem like squat. Then, we can repay it with near worthless currency. (Said with sarcasm, by the way)
