More bad polling news
for Obama
Thomas Lifson
"Trust is like virginity: once you lose it
it's hard to get it back." So spoke pollster John Zogby, commenting on his
latest poll on President Obama's handling of his office. Quoted by Paul Bedard
in the Washington
Examiner:
"Most ominous for
Mr. Obama is that 57 percent now disapprove of his job. That is his worst
number yet. This includes 57 percent of men and 55 percent of women; 51 percent
of moderates, 24 percent of liberals and 24 percent of Democrats; 66 percent of
independents and 40 percent of Hispanics.
Meanwhile, a separate poll by CNN/ORC
International found:
53% of Americans
now believe that Obama is not honest and trustworthy, the first time that a
clear majority in CNN polling has felt that way.
According to the survey, conducted last Monday
through Wednesday, 40% say the President can manage the government effectively.
That 40% figure is down 12 percentage points from June and is the worst score
Obama received among the nine personal characteristics tested in the new poll.
"A lot of attention has focused on the
President's numbers on honesty in new polling the past three weeks, but it
looks like the recent controversy over Obamacare has had a bigger impact on his
status as an effective manager of the government, and that may be what is
really driving the drop in Obama's approval rating this fall," CNN Polling
Director Keating Holland said.
It gets even worse, because of the lethal
combination of perceived dishonesty and incompetence:
"Just ask Bill
Clinton, whose overall approval ratings remained high during and after the
Monica Lewinsky scandal because three-quarters of all Americans thought he
could get things done, even though only about one in five said he was
honest," Holland added.
Both polls had samples under 1000 people, on the
small side, so there is margin of error of a few percentage points in each.
However, it is clear that Obama is underwater, and that a public reassessment
of him is well underway.
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