Hussein Obama has hit a brand new low in personal favorability ratings according to left-wing biased ABC/Washington Post latest polling. Just 44% like Obama personally. Obama has generally been able to maintain the charade about him being a likable guy for most of the last six years, but even that now is starting to fade away. Another charade that Obama had been able to maintain (with the help from the Washington Post and ABC) is that generally believed for whatever reason believed that Obama understands the problems of people like them. Well, that’s at a new low too, as just 46% of those polled feel like Obama ‘feels their pain’. The fact there are still this many dolts who believe it though also says a lot about the electorate and why Obama was able to win two elections.
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Favorable views of Barack Obama and the sense that he understands the problems of average Americans both have dropped to career lows in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, two more unwelcome results for the president’s party near the eve of the midterm elections.
Just 44 percent now see the president favorably, a basic measure of personal popularity – compared with 49 percent in late January and 60 percent at the start of his second term. Half of all adults see him unfavorably, as do 53 percent of likely voters.
Additionally, a career-low 46 percent say Obama understands the problems of people like them, with similar numbers on the strength of his leadership (rated positively by 46 percent), managerial skills (45 percent) and the extent to which he can be trusted in a crisis (49 percent).
Obama’s lack of popularity has cast a shadow over his party as it tries to hang on to its majority in the Senate. His job approval rating hit a career-low 40 percent in an ABC/Post poll in mid-October, and was 43 percent last week. Historically, presidential approval correlates highly with midterm losses for an incumbent president’s party.
It could be worse for the president in this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates. While his favorability rating has slipped by five points this year, the number who see him unfavorably has held steady, at 50 percent. More instead are undecided or have no opinion.