Over the last three weeks, the main stream media has been filled with article after article that explains how the public will blame Republicans more than president Obama and his party for sequestration. It has almost gotten to the point where this claim is more like a mantra that the msm reporters are chanting than just a prediction. And it is not just the main stream media that engages in this. Rush Limbaugh has been expounding at length that Obama is not perceived by the public as responsible for the way things are. According to Limbaugh, the permanent Obama campaign works to show Obama as fighting to stop the bad things that are about to happen. In that way, Obama can shift the responsibility to the GOP for sequestration no matter what the actual facts are.
Well we seem to be getting a clear indication that this entire analysis is wrong and the public is not falling for the Obama line (lie?) regarding sequestration. Probably the best evidence comes in the form of Obama's job approval numbers. For much of Obama's first term, more of the public disapproved of his job performance than approved. After the November election, however, Obama moved public opinion to a reasonably favorable place. Millions of folks who were thrilled that the election was finally over decided to give Obama the benefit of the doubt once again. The polling put Obama's approval numbers went up to about 57% and disapproval declined to about 41% according to the Rasmussen poll. (I use the Rasmussen poll because it is taken daily and it always uses the same methodology.) The latest poll released today by Rasmussen shows the approval/disapproval numbers at 50 to 48%. This is Obama's worst showing since the election. Over the last two weeks when the sequestration argument has come to the fore, there has been a steady shift away from approval of Obama to disapproval of his job performance.
Now before I get the emails asking me about what the polls show regarding the approval of Congress, let me quickly add that there really are no such daily polls and that they would not be meaningful anyway. Remember, Congress consists of a Democrat senate and a Republican house. One cannot tell if disapproval is due to the senate or the house or both.
The main point here is that Obama may come to rue the day that he was so unreasonable with regard to the sequester. Too many people understand that sequestration does not even cut spending; it only slows the rate of growth. Americans actually understand that spending has to be controlled and they can now clearly see that Obama lied when he said that he wanted to do just that.
Well we seem to be getting a clear indication that this entire analysis is wrong and the public is not falling for the Obama line (lie?) regarding sequestration. Probably the best evidence comes in the form of Obama's job approval numbers. For much of Obama's first term, more of the public disapproved of his job performance than approved. After the November election, however, Obama moved public opinion to a reasonably favorable place. Millions of folks who were thrilled that the election was finally over decided to give Obama the benefit of the doubt once again. The polling put Obama's approval numbers went up to about 57% and disapproval declined to about 41% according to the Rasmussen poll. (I use the Rasmussen poll because it is taken daily and it always uses the same methodology.) The latest poll released today by Rasmussen shows the approval/disapproval numbers at 50 to 48%. This is Obama's worst showing since the election. Over the last two weeks when the sequestration argument has come to the fore, there has been a steady shift away from approval of Obama to disapproval of his job performance.
Now before I get the emails asking me about what the polls show regarding the approval of Congress, let me quickly add that there really are no such daily polls and that they would not be meaningful anyway. Remember, Congress consists of a Democrat senate and a Republican house. One cannot tell if disapproval is due to the senate or the house or both.
The main point here is that Obama may come to rue the day that he was so unreasonable with regard to the sequester. Too many people understand that sequestration does not even cut spending; it only slows the rate of growth. Americans actually understand that spending has to be controlled and they can now clearly see that Obama lied when he said that he wanted to do just that.
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