CNN Poll: More Americans Believe Obamas Radical Agenda Will Fail & Trust GOP Congress Over Obama to Handle Issues

Poll: Support For Obama's Policies Down Since Last Year
As the Democratic Party looks to recover from the midterm shellacking, a new CNN poll found that support for Obama's policies has dipped 10 percentage points over the past year. Yet despite the sharp drop, a majority of Americans still support the President's policies. In the poll, 61% percent of respondents said they hoped Obama's policies would succeed, while 27% said they hoped his policies would fail. Last year, CNN pegged that split at 71% to 22%. The poll asked: In general, do you hope t...

Voters coming around to Limbaugh's point of view on wanting Obama failure
Image by fofurasfelinas via Flickr CNN: President Barack Obama enters the new year with a growing number of Americans pessimistic about his policies and a growing number rooting for him to fail, according to a new National Poll. Full poll results [pdf] But a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday also indicates that while a majority of the public says Republican control of the House of Representatives is good for the country, only one in four say the GOP will do a better j...

CNN poll finds surprise!! a divided country
CNN released a new poll last week with some interesting numbers. For example, pollsters asked whether it would be good or bad for the country that Republicans will control the U.S. House of Representatives: 51 percent said it will be good, 42 percent said it will be bad. That would seem to be pretty good news for the GOP. However, CNN also asked a similar question in 2006, when Democrats took over the House. Four years ago, 67 percent said the Democratic takeover would be good for the country,...

The Senate's Opening Day
Brian Beutler over at TPM has some reporting on the emerging rules reform package that will be offered in the Senate by Tom Udall and Jeff Merkley on Jan. 5. I find the substance underwhelming, and I'm not someone who wants to eliminate the Filibuster....I don't think that the changes they are proposing, at least from what I've seen so far, will have much if any practical effect. But in this post, I want to focus on what perhaps is the biggest difficulty: They're pushing the Democrats into a po...

CNN Poll: Opposition to Afghanistan war remains high
Washington (CNN) - More than six in ten Americans oppose the U.S. War in Afghanistan, according to a new National Poll. And a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday also indicates that 56 percent of the public believes that things are going badly for the U.S. in Afghanistan. Sixty-three percent of people questioned in the poll say they oppose the war, with 35 percent saying they support the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. "The war has not always been unpopular - back in March, wh...

CNN Poll: Plurality say Obama's policies will likely fail
Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama enters the new year with a growing number of Americans pessimistic about his policies and a growing number rooting for him to fail, according to a new National Poll. But a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday also indicates that while a majority of the public says Republican control of the House of Representatives is good for the country, only one in four say the GOP will do a better job running things than the Democrats did when th...

Poll Watch: CNN/Opinion Research Political Survey on Barack Obama and Congress
CNN/Opinion Research Political Survey on Barack Obama and Congress Apart from whether you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president, what do you think of Obama as a person? Would you say you approve of him or disapprove of him? Approve 73% Disapprove 22% Among Democrats Approve 94% Disapprove 5% Among Republicans Approve 42% Disapprove 49% Among Independents Approve 73% Disapprove 21% In general, do you hope that Barack Obama’s policies will ...

Obama approval rating steady at 47 percent
Forty-seven percent of the public approve of President Obama's job performance in a new Gallup Poll, a figure that has remained relatively consistent since the November Midterm Elections. Obama saw his approval dip by a statistically insignificant two percentage points from its high of 49 percent last week in Gallup's daily, but the president has not suffered a steep decline in approval like other presidents have following losses in the Midterm Elections.  Though Gallup noted the poll could ...

From Limbaugh's Lips To America's Ears: Americans Say Obama Will Fail
By RightKlik Rush Limbaugh's hopes have become America's expectations: Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama enters the new year with a growing number of Americans pessimistic about his policies and a growing number rooting for him to fail, according to a new National Poll... "Twelve months ago a majority of the public said that they thought Obama's policies would succeed; now that number has dropped to 44 percent, with a plurality predicting that his policies will likely fail." Americans ...

Obama Names Ambassadors, No. 2 Official at Justice in Recess Appointments
President Obama, using his authority to bypass Congress, has named four ambassadors and the No. 2 person at the Justice Department as recess appointments, allowing them to serve through most of next year without Senate confirmation. The appointments Wednesday included career diplomat Robert S. Ford as the first ambassador to Syria since 2005, and James M. Cole as deputy attorney general. Cole, who took part in a 1997 ethics investigation of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, had been stalled in...

Poll: Fewer Americans hope Obama's policies succeed
Americans are less supportive of President Barack Obama’s policies than they were a year ago, but a majority of those surveyed in a new poll still hope his policies will be successful. In a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Wednesday, 61 percent of Americans surveyed said they hope Obama’s policies succeed. A year ago, 71 percent hoped for Obama’s policy success. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 Those surveyed were also less confident that the ...

We all wish Lepage well in his efforts to sort out Maine.
On Wednesday 5th of January 2011, Paul LePage will become Maine’s Governor after his close November win. LePage and his team have quite sensibly opted to have a low-key inauguration in the light of the dire straights this state finds itself in at the moment.  The Morning Sentinel praisedthe move. “LePage’s low-key reception will look small, even compared to Gov. John Baldacci’s second inaugural, which also was scaled back because of concerns about the state Budget.&#...

Harry 'Hypocrite' Reid changes the rules
Cover of The Good Fight IBD: The Senate Majority Leader has a plan to deal with Republican electoral success. When you lose the game, you simply change the rules. When you only have 53 votes, you lower the bar to 51. When Harry Reid was hawking his book "The Good Fight" on C-Span's "Book Notes" in 2008, he described how he had vehemently opposed GOP plans for the "Nuclear Option," changing the rules to break a Democratic Filibuster on President George W. Bush's judicial nominees. Only 51 votes...

Poll: Obama approval rating holds steady
PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Nearly the same number of respondents approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing as disapprove, a Gallup Poll released Thursday indicated. Obama's latest job Approval Rating is 47 percent, down slightly from the 49 percent recorded last week, Gallup said. Forty-six percent of Americans asked said they disapprove of Obama's job performance. Obama's Approval Rating has been stable since the Nov. 2 Midterm Elections in which the Democratic party lost its ma...

King Harry Decrees: Democrats Lost the Election, So Now Theyre Planning to Stage a Coup in the Senate
It’s been said by many that Democrats and Republicans are both awful, that there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between them. Well, it’s not true. Both have pursued a Big Government agenda in recent decades but Democrats are much more willing to cheat, break the law, and change the law (even retroactively) if it helps them advance their agenda. Democrats are shameless masters at voter Fraud while Republicans, whenever overzealous operatives try their hand at it,

Out with the old, in with the new in the Senate as Congress set to reconvene
In a Congress dominated by complicated bills and wonky policy fights, perhaps the biggest challenge for members of the Senate was simply keeping straight the names of all their colleagues.  The 111th Congress will go down as one of the most chaotic in Senate history because of the constant turnover in personnel.
 That influx of fresh faces means the 112th Congress will begin with a notably inexperienced group of senators. More than one-fifth of the upper chamber’s 100 seats changed hands

Poll: Most Americans Support Health Law Or Want To Make It More Progressive
One of the major rallying cries of the Republican Party and the wider Conservative Movement has been to Repeal the recently passed Health Care law. To justify this demand, these Conservatives claim that Americans want the law to be repealed and that they think it goes too far in expanding the government and would prefer a Free Market approach to Health Care (which has no history of working anywhere at anytime). Last week, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe made this claim in on op-ed published...

Which Massachusetts Democrat will leave the House?
A Massachusetts Democrat is leaving the House in 2012, whether he or she likes it or not. Massachusetts found out last week that it is one of 10 states that will lose a seat in Congress. And about now, its members of Congress are probably getting a little nervous. The good news for them, though, is that they are unlikely to be pitted against each other. Massachusetts, unlike many other states on the chopping block, probably won't have to go through a painful redistricting process. And who do the...

CNN Poll: Plurality of Public Thinks Obama's Policies Will Fail; Fewer People Are Even Hoping He Succeeds
Four words: We hope he fails? Not really "we" because 61% of the public says they want Obama's policies to succeed; but that's down a big 10% since the December before last. President Barack Obama enters the new year with a growing number of Americans pessimistic about his policies and a growing number rooting for him to fail, according to a new national poll. But a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday also indicates that while a majority of the public says Republican cont...

Obama prepares to defend health care law in 2011
One priority for President Obama and his team in 2010: Defending his Health Care law, both in court and in Congress. The administration is bracing for a decision by a Florida Federal Judge in the latest of a string of Lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Health Care law. In the meantime, newly elected members of a Republican majority in the U.S. House say they will push to Repeal what they call "ObamaCare," or to at least cut off funding for some provisions. Earlier this month, a f...

Andrew Levine: Bipartisanship: Why the Obama Administration Has Been So Much Worse Than It Had To Be and Why It Will Probably G
Democratic spin-doctors and liberal pundits are right: Barack Obama did get enough milquetoast Legislation enacted to confer bragging rights. But unlike LBJ's vastly more substantial reforms, Obama's achievements further entrench the power of those who make reform necessary - from the Insurance Industry and Big Pharma all the way to Wall Street and back. Obama's motto should be "a half step forward, two or more steps back." And unlike JFK, who somehow inspired faith in public service notwithst...

Americans Split on Obama and Congressional Republicans, Poll Shows
As the 112th Congress convenes next week, Americans are divided in their assessment of both President Obama and Congressional Republicans, according to a new CNN /Opinion Research Corporation poll. About half of the public (51 percent) said Republican control of the House of Representatives will be good for the country and 42 percent said it will be bad for the country. At the same time, only 26 percent expect the Republicans to do a better job than the Democrats; 52 percent anticipate more of ...

Democrats turning Green makes the People see red (3/3)
While America has been reducing its industry over the last thirty years to make a cleaner environment and ‘save the world,’ China and India are growing by leaps and bounds taking those industries and making them their own.  Our government puts a Moratorium on American oil companies drilling off of our coasts for the “safety of the environment,” which St. Pete’s Representative, Bill Young-R supports, while other nation’s Oil Rigs flock to the gulf.  A...

Obama Approval Steady
A new Gallup Poll finds President Obama's Approval Rating at 46%. "The general stability in Obama's Approval Rating since the Nov. 2 Midterm Elections -- in which his party lost majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives -- can be characterized as positive for Obama. Most presidents whose party suffers major midterm losses see their approval Ratings fall." ...

CNN Poll: Fewer People Want Obamas Policies to Succeed
Those surveyed were also less confident that the president’s policies would succeed, with 44 percent saying they would and 47 percent saying they would fail. A year ago, 52 percent of Americans said they thought Obama’s policies would be successful, while 41 percent said they thought his policies would fail. Fifty-one percent of Americans said they think the GOP majority in the House of Representatives will be a good thing for the country, while 42 percent said they think it will be ...