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Thread #115883   Message #2851622
Posted By: Sawzaw
27-Feb-10 - 12:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views: the Obama Administration
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views: the Obama Administration
Amos and Bobert want to contradict Obama's hand picked officials?
Get your selves a ticket and fly to Reagan Airport, grab a cab and check in at the Marriott. Then call and make an appointment with Geithner or Jarret. When you get in, ask them if the economy collapsed or not.

I am just reporting what they said. Take up the argument with them. Take your dictionary. Ask them who eradicated Glass-Steagal while you are there.

Do you think you should take a gun Bobert? Just in case you are attacked by one of those teabag terrorists.


What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week's Key Polls
Rasmussen Reports 2 27, 2010

President Obama and congressional Democrats seem to be doing everything in their power to revive their national health care plan, but the public still isn't buying.

A survey this past week prior to the president's televised bipartisan summit on the topic found that voters still oppose the plan and question many of its details - http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/weekly_updates/what_they_told_us_reviewing_last_week_s_key_polls care plan, while 56% oppose it. Those figures include 45% who strongly oppose the plan versus 23% who strongly favor it.

Supporters are citing a jump in rates by a California health insurer as grounds for getting the national plan back on track, but most voters are still more fearful of the federal government than private insurance companies when it comes to health care decisions. These views are unchanged from early August when many congressmen went home to town hall meetings filled with voters angry about the proposed health care plan.

Voters also remain closely divided on the creation of a government-run health insurance option. But opposition increases dramatically if its creation might force people to change their existing coverage. That's because 59% of voters believe it is more important to guarantee that no one is forced to change their health insurance coverage than to give consumers the choice of a public option.

Despite the president's bipartisan outreach efforts, 50% of voters rate his handling of the health care issue as poor.

Of course, the president's efforts aren't helped by the low opinion voters have of Congress. Seventy-one percent (71%) now say Congress is doing a poor job, the highest level of disapproval ever recorded by Rasmussen Reports. Only nine percent (9%) now believe members of Congress are interested in helping the people they represent; 81% say they're more interested in helping themselves.

This unhappiness, primarily directed at Democrats because of their majority control of the House and Senate, is reflected in numerous state surveys Rasmussen Reports has taken in recent months....Read More Here


Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Rasmussen Reports 2 27, 2010

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 22% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for President Obama.....Read More Here