Obama Approval Plummets on Economy
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 14th, 2011 4:39 am by HL
Obama Approval Plummets on Economy
A new Bloomberg poll finds President Obama’s job approval rating at the lowest of his presidency — 45%.
The poll also hands Obama new lows in each of the categories that measures his performance on the economy: only 36% of respondents approve of his efforts to create jobs, 30% approve of how he’s tackled the budget deficit and 39% approve of his handling of health care.
Troubling signs for the White House: “Of the respondents who said they’ve supported Obama at one point since he launched his presidential campaign in 2007, fewer than half say they still support him as fervently. Thirty- seven percent say their support has waned and 19% say he lost their backing because they’ve grown disappointed or angry with his leadership.”
Turner Upsets Weprin in NY-9
The AP reports that Bob Turner has defeated David Weprin (D) in the special election for former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-NY) seat, with Turner taking 54% of the vote to Weprin’s 46%.
New York Post: “Take that, Mr. President!”
The results are a clear upset for Democrats and David Weigel wonders aloud “on an alternate reality wherein Democrats gritted their teeth and let Anthony Weiner wait out his scandal… Could Democrats have gritted their teeth, asked for a censure, and let Weiner fill out his term as a disgraced back-bencher? Possibly! That certainly looks less painful than the double-dip of the scandal and this new cycle of explaining how they fumbled away his seat.”
Lewis Back on Ballot in New Jersey
Five months after he declared his candidacy for New Jersey state Senate, Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis (D) finally made it onto the November ballot, the Newark Star Ledger reports.
“After a legal battle that overshadowed Lewis’s candidacy, a three-judge federal appeals court panel voted 2-1 to overturn Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno’s April decision that he did not meet the four-year residency requirement for state Senate candidates, and a lower federal court decision upholding it.”
