By FITSNews || It’s been a bad week for U.S. President Barack Obama. The economy is sputtering (again) and several new national polls show his approval ratings sliding as a result.
But how is Obama doing in South Carolina?
Two years ago, Palmetto State voters chose Republican presidential nominee John McCain over Obama by a 54-45 percent margin. Of course as recently as February at least one poll showed Obama with a 47.6 percent approval rating (compared to just 40 percent who disapprove of his job performance).
Hmmmm ….
We’re inclined to believe that Obama is extremely unpopular in South Carolina, which is why his White House is dispatching Vice President Joe Biden to stump for vulnerable Democratic candidates.
Anyway, since we haven’t seen an Obama poll on any mainstream media outlets in awhile, we figured we’d put one up ourselves and see what people had to say.
What do you think?
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By eggaday July 15, 2010 at 2:04 pm
we need honest leaders from obama down to the cop on the street.
sadly we do not have honest leaders. none of em.
By piepton July 15, 2010 at 3:32 pm
The sample group for this poll is even more biased than Rasmussen’s “likely voters.”
By crooner July 15, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Who cares what the idiots who populate SC think?
By crackahasscrackah July 15, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Obama’s numbers in SC haven’t dropped as much as other states because SC is a very polarized state politically. 43% of South Carolinians are going to support a legally competent Democrat with a pulse (not Theo Mitchell and probably not Alvin Greene but pretty much everyone else). 48% of South Carolinians would vote against Jesus Christ if he ran as a Democrat. In this state, the remaining 9% is the whole ball game.
In ’08, McCain got seven out of nine swing voters in SC. In NC, swing voters went for Obama. In GA, swing voters basically split down the middle. So while Obama’s numbers have fallen precipitously in NC and have fallen steadily in GA, there was practically no room for them to fall here.
By JR July 15, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Piepton, you mean the Tea Party’s likely voters right?
By Blatant Reality July 16, 2010 at 1:26 am
I always laugh when people make fun of Rasmussen’s polls since they were one of most accurate in the 2008 election.
Sometimes the truth hurts (it did for the GOP in ’08).
By carl the greenskeeper July 16, 2010 at 10:33 am
Who are you?
I’m Arthur, King of the Britons!
What’re Britons?
You are, we are and I’m your king!
Who made you king?
Well, a lady dressed in white samite rose from the lake and gave me a sword that made me king.
Not a very good way to choose a leader of a people. A king should have the power come up from the masses, not some woman in a wet white dress with nothing on underneath. You’re no king of mine.
Of course I am. I’m king of all England.
Not ‘ere you’re not. This is a narco-syndicalist commune. I get to be chairman every few weeks. Of course, all our actions have to be ratified by the executive committee.
Come along, Patsy. These poor beggars make no sense.
By EB July 16, 2010 at 5:09 pm
A case of gonorrhea would have a higher approval rating than Obama. That is really not something he wants to clap about.
Gonorrhea, you know, a really bad case, like the bullhead clap would be twenty points ahead of Obama.
By SnakeMD July 16, 2010 at 6:43 pm
“au pays des aveugles les borgnes sont rois”
in the country of the blind the one-eyed men are kings!
Carl, you are a sage in your own thyme. And, I ain’t no Rosemary.
By EB July 16, 2010 at 8:32 pm
“The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.”
By C20H26N2O July 16, 2010 at 9:18 pm
If Obama would shore-up the borders, he would be polling just fine. The rest of his agenda – we new ahead of time. I think that his Arizona stance has damaged his legacy more than anything else.
By C20H26N2O July 16, 2010 at 9:20 pm
“knew ahead of time” I’m really not quite that illiterate. …Just lack typing skill.
By Joe July 17, 2010 at 7:43 am
“Anyway, since we haven’t seen an Obama poll on any mainstream media outlets in awhile…”
No you haven’t because the mainstream media who sold their souls to the devil to get him elected now see the buyer’s remorse. They aren’t particularly interested in reporting those numbers.
And here’s another bit of good news…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/7893238/Feds-volte-face-sends-the-dollar-tumbling.html
Maybe another Depression will convince people that growing the size of government, more entitlements, higher taxes and increased regulations isn’t the way out of an economic crisis.
By SnakeMD July 17, 2010 at 8:31 am
I really hope Alvin Green gets elected to the U.S. Senate. Alvin and Obama both like Colt 45 Malt Liquor. They could down a few cold ones in the Rose Garden and probably bring peace to the Middle East, since they both think outside the box. History will refer to it as the “Malt Talks.”
Alvin just might be prophet from the wilderness. (Manning, SC) Don’t write this guy off just yet. Obama and Alvin will be the new Ying and Yang—the Alpha and the Omega. I’m truly excited for America and South Carolina. It was only a matter of time before these two crossed paths.
Destiny, my friends. For it has been written that this day shall come about. The lamb from SC will reside with the Lion from Chicago. Praise be to Allah!
By GDI July 17, 2010 at 11:21 am
To paraphrase Carl the Greenskeeper about many of our current elected officials, “You stupid knigget, your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elder berries! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!”
By EB July 17, 2010 at 12:31 pm
By C20H26N2O on July 16th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
“If Obama would shore-up the borders, he would be polling just fine.”
I admire your optimism, while questioning your judgement.
Obama has fallen in the polls not based on one issue, e.g. border security.
His political ideology, lack of management experience, and leadership skills has lead him to make bad decisions on a variety of issues.
If he were to magically secure our borders next week, he would experience maybe a bump up in his approval rating for a short period of time. He might even edge back up close to fifty per cent approval.
Anyway, that’s not going to happen any time soon. Obama is using it strictly as an election issue.
Go back and look at his decline ,it has been steady, falling after each of his bad decisions comes into conflict with what a majority of the public wants to do.
Will Alvin, the lamb, get to suck up a Malt Liquor with any of the “black sheep” when he gets to Washington. I suggest that he go to the Justice Department.
By carl the greenskeeper July 19, 2010 at 12:23 pm
SnakeMD, I’m like, you know, growing a new type of grass. Its sort of a cross between bent grass, with a little bermuda and some sensimilla. It wears well, withstands the heat and you can sell the clippings as recreational herb and make a few extra bucks. So I’m thinking that the government should sell it worldwide. It could cure the national deficit and we’d have that going for us, which is nice.