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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Getting the base excited

For the last two months, president Obama has been trying to get the Democrat base excited by blasting Republicans, pushing for approval of his jobs bill and generally moving well to the left in his positions. After such a barrage, one would think that the success of Obama's efforts would show up in the polls. Today, we have a pretty good measure of the success of this shift to the left by Obama. Rasmussen Reports has been conducting a daily poll of Obama's approval ratings since the start of his term in office. Rasmussen tells us the number who strongly approve, strongly disapprove, generally approve and generally disapprove of Obama's performance in office. Strong approval is the mark of a fired up base.

Today for the first time, only 18% of those surveyed strongly approved of Obama's job performance. This is the lowest score ever received by the president on this measure. Over the course of Obama's shift to the left, the number announcing strong approval for Obama has declined significantly; the figure is down about 20%.

Maybe it is time for the Obamacrats to reconsider their latest effort to save a failed president.

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