Poll: Americans Itching To Vote Out Incumbents, Including Obama

Most Presidents' approval ratings fall in their first year. Bush was still riding the rally-behind-the-President tide after 9/11 when his first year was up, so he may be an exception.
The House and Senate, on the other hand, deserve bad marks all around.

Hey, if the one politician that people hoped would be different turns out to be the same, riddance.

How many years did it take to get to this point & landmines set by the right? Obama & crew are supposed failures for not waving the magic wand & making it all better in one year. A year I might add that included saving the world, basically.
NOT IN MY BOOK!

Unless the Congress gets stuff done they deserve not to be re-elected.

Most voters aren't that up on the day-to-day occurrences. They don't care about filibusters and cloture votes or any of that. All they see is Congress screwing around for six months on health care and getting nothing done but a lot of partisan wrangling, and the Dems have done virtually nothing to counter that impression. The Dems have been ineffective. If they don't start doing a better job of communicating their message they'll get what they deserve.

Lets see, if the GOP is in power again, we can have real change:
1. Eliminate Social security by creating a privatized account.
2. Eliminate Medicare. Enjoy the 39% increase this year by Blue cross/Blue shield This year. What will the increase be next year
3. Eliminate Medicade.
4 Pass tax elimination for Billionaires again.
The mind boggles.

So, first the Republicans wrecked the government. Then they wrecked the economy. Then the wrecked the efforts of the Democrats to try to repair all the stuff they'd wrecked. So, let's put them back in to power.

Yeah. Sounds about right.

The CNN poll of registered voters, heavily oversampled with Democrats, says 52% of Americans think Obama should not be re-elected...

...there is a tsunami coming in November

The American voter has a memory of a stoned slacker.

Do you want to know one reason we're ready to vote the incumbents out?
Just to 1, 2, 3 to find the answer:

Item 1:
 “A mere seven months ago (that would be around June 2009), The New York Times/CBS poll found that 72% of Americans ‘supported a government-administered insurance plan—something like Medicare for those under 65—that would compete for customers with private insurers.’”

Item 2: As of February 2010, no single payer health care reform, no 'government option', mandated premium payments to private sector insurers, tax money to private sector insurers, stipulations making it legal for insurers to spend only 80 cents of every 100 cents on actual health care while spending 20 cents of every 100 cents on lobbying, 'sympathetic' candidates, CEO bonuses, 'administration' and fighting your claim for treatment.

Item 3: Virtually no one (other than those who created the sop for themselves) want this bastardized insurance industry bailout to pass.

Question: Why do Americans want to vote the incumbents out?

Answer: See Items 1, 2 & 3.

Other items include:
1.Ignoring previous Republican crimes, misdemeanors and profligacy 
– e.g. tax cuts for the wealthy. 
2. Supporting a stingy stimulus that was half of what was needed and 
was one-third tax breaks, not jobs.
3. Killing the only option that would have slowed the cost of health 
care & led to universal coverage.
4. Accelerating the Bush bailout, $ 4.3 Trillions in bailouts, 
guarantees and purchasing assets from the private sector at well above market 
value.
5. Escalating a meaningless and fruitless war.
6. Gutting real financial reform and substitute finger wagging and silly 
taxes and fees, while banking fees continue up, lending freezes and credit 
tightens.
7. Not helping people with bankruptcy and mortgages remediation – 
accelerating middle class decline.
8. Fiddling around and not passing a jobs bill.


Had enough? Vote the incumbents out.

It's not that Obama has 'lost control of the narrative', it's that Obama has made decisions that further harmed the middle class and rewarded the guilty. He has betrayed those who elected him and turned his back on the young, the working class, the middle class.

He's caused those Republican voters who were willing to 'give him a chance' to see that he is not going to make things better, but will continue the policies of the previous administration.

He has caused those in the middle (the independents) to see that he does not represent 'change' in any meaningful sense.

He has caused Democrats to run in shame.

He and many many many other incumbents are going to be gone very very very soon.

Yes, we mistook him for a leader, but, more importantly, when he has lead, it has been in the wrong direction.

Obama is the uber-Senate Democrat. That's where he cut his political teeth, and that necrotic body's world-view informs his.

He's governing in precisely the way a President Landrieu or President Bayh would: timorous, hesitant, conciliatory, and uncomfortable with wielding power. Again -- the perfect example of a Senate Democrat.

I think the majority are right. At this moment in time Obama has yet to do anything to earn him re-election. That doesn't mean things won't change, but he has done a piss poor job on delivering on his promises to the American people, except of course the obscenely wealthy people who have been serviced very nicely since he was elected.

I want to support the Democrats, I really really do. But all they do (collectively) is stammer and fiddle around and pick their noses while we continue to suffer needlessly. My problem with Obama is that he doesn't seem to be fighting all that hard for us, and is instead fighting very hard to win over the hearts of Senate and congressional Reeps, who even I can see a 1000 miles away as being utterly hopeless and intractable. Why he doesn't see that, I'll never understand, but until he does, the Democrats are totally doomed to failure.

When Obama finally figures out how to use the Presidency to *really* ramrod a liberal agenda through congress, he'll be set, and we all will be better off. But right now, I'm seeing a lot more Reeps taking office next January because the Dems are completely useless.

January 21, 2017 -- A CNN poll today found that 53% of Americans think that President Whoever, who took office yesterday, does not deserve a second term.

The 2012 elections are a little less than 3 fking years away, give it a rest already.

Palin/Bachmann, 2012. Time for strict, assertive, dominant leadership.

You need to post on here more - this place is turning into the Daily Kos.

However, I don't think you will not get a very good answer to "what it means to be corrupt?" question. Like you said, in reality actual corruption isn't the problem. People confuse money in politics and corruption every damn day. Lawrence Lessig's Change Congress movement makes this distinction between actual criminal corruption and money in politics from the get go since people are confused on the issue.

I agree with Lessig about money squeezing trust between the public and our electeds. From my many hours of subjective experience and evidence from reading blogs; the mass of liberals assume that corporation's money prevents us from getting a fair shake. Every time someone espouses a contrary position, BAM! Corporation/Business money and influence exclamations are given the same weight as if it is a law of nature. I am not arguing they are wrong, just that they are superficial and the whole liberal sphere becomes Kabuki theater.

My big let down was.."I'll not litigate the past." this made him a partner in crime with Bush.
The other thing that I find unexcusable, Leaving 95% of all Bushes D.A in the same place he found them. That being the biggest tactical error as they have fought to undermine him at every turn. To me he's like a PARROT, it can speak well, but he's lacks, Guevos/cojones/chutzpa.

Obama needs to get his head outside the University of Chicago bubble. His problem is not so much being controlled by the Village, but rather his inability to give up his affection for the economic and political mindset of the University of Chicago. Granted U of C's thinking is generally accepted throughout the Ivys, but it started in Chicago.