The Bigger Picture: Obama’s Average Monthly Approval Through August Dropping Every Month, Unemployment Rising
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on September 26, 2009
Average monthly presidential approval index, through August, for Pres. Obama is shown in the graphic below.
From Rasmussen Reports:
When you track the President’s Job Approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports has compiled the numbers on a full-month basis…
Overall, the number who Strongly Approve has fallen from 43% in January to 30% in August. During that same time frame, the number who Strongly Disapprove has grown from 20% to 39%. Those numbers translate to a Presidential Approval Index that has declined from +23 in January to -9 in August.
Despite the rhetoric from the White House, unemployment hasn’t improved, and in some areas, continues to worsen.
San Francisco Chronicle, Recession’s over? Why didn’t we get the memo?
By Steve Rubenstein
September 26, 2009Thank goodness the recession is over and the economy is on the way back up. That’s the word from the experts, the analysts and the pooh-bahs. If only someone could pass the word to everybody left over.
Most of them are still down at the supermarket, holding coupons good for 25 cents off a can of soup.
If things are getting better, they’re taking their time about it. Most folks are all still waiting for the rising tide, the one that lifts all boats, to hoist their fiscal dinghies out of the mud.
My friend Rebecca thinks a lot about the economy, mostly at 3 a.m. That’s when she wakes up, fretting about the day ahead. She works in a three-person public relations office in the East Bay, except that she’s the only person in it. The other two got laid off over the past year, and she’s supposed to cover for them and for herself as well.
“I lie there, thinking about what I’ve got to get done today,” she said. “Sometimes I can get back to sleep and sometimes I can’t.”
She shows up for work at 8 o’clock and, some days, stays until the other 8 o’clock. And she’s glad to do it.
“I’ve got a job,” she said. “I don’t have any life, but I do have a job.”
Her pay got cut 6 percent. And she has been ordered to take three unpaid furlough days. That will allow her to stay home and think some more about how lucky she is to have a job, even if she’s not getting paid to think about it.
With the recession all over and the economy all better, Rebecca said, there’s more time to work and less time for distracting things like office parties. Last year, the boss told her that the annual catered Christmas party wasn’t getting canceled, just rescheduled. Ten months later, it finally got rescheduled. Now, it’s a Halloween potluck. Bring your own everything…
From Hot Air, Recovery alert: Durable goods orders, housing sales plunged in August:
While Joe Biden tells Americans that the stimulus has worked “better than we hoped,” the numbers tell a different story. Seven months after passing a whopping $787 billion stimulus package, unemployment and mass layoffs both jumped in August.
From JacksonSun [TN], Number of jobless still rising:
The state’s August unemployment rate hit 10.8 percent last week, according to the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Last August, the state’s unemployment rate was 6.6 percent.
The nation’s August unemployment rate hit 9.7 percent, an increase from July’s unemployment rate of 9.4 percent. Economists and members of the federal government have said they expect the nation’s unemployment rate to reach 10 percent by January or sooner.
From JammieWearingFool, More Great Economic News: Unemployment Actually Near 17%:
Despite the recent claims of Barack Obama and Joe Biden that the stimulus is working, total unemployment, including those so discouraged that they have stopped looking for work, is in the 17% range…
The bad news just keeps on coming:
The Rutgers labor scorecard offered a mix of good and bad news:
From January to June, there were 16.1 million new unemployment claims, a 72 percent increase from 2008.
More than 1.2 million workers were in extended mass layoffs, more than double the 2008 figure.
Minorities and people with disabilities were harder hit by job market stresses. The unemployment rate is 8.6 percent for whites; 14.5 percent for blacks; 12.3 percent for Hispanics and 15.1 percent for people with disabilities.
More than 6 percent of the work force wants to work full time, but is working part time because they can’t find full-time work.
From The Buffalo News, More jobless aid sought:
The state labor commissioner warned Thursday that the cost of supporting unemployed workers could fall to state and local governments if federal lawmakers do not extend unemployment benefits.
M. Patricia Smith joined labor leaders from 17 other states to call on Congress to extend unemployment insurance benefits an additional 13 weeks.
“We’re here because we are facing an unemployment crisis of epic proportions,” said Smith, speaking at the Conference Center Niagara Falls.
A bill that would extend unemployment insurance benefits by 13 weeks in 27 states with the highest unemployment, including New York State, passed the House on Tuesday. A similar bill is pending in the Senate.
[...]
Unemployed residents in New York State receive 26 weeks of regular unemployment insurance benefits. An additional 53 weeks are now available under extended benefits previously approved.
But that has not been enough for some laid-off workers who already have run out of benefits, the labor leaders said.
Smith estimated there is one job available in New York State for every three unemployed people searching for a job.
“The problem is there are no jobs,” said Paul J. Parise, Niagara County employment and training director. “You’ve got skilled people who are actively looking for jobs who can’t find jobs.”
The 13-week extension would bring the total benefits available to New York State residents to 92 weeks, if approved.
“This may on the surface appear to be a Band-Aid,” said John Lasky, of Lewiston, who has been searching for a job since November. “But the first part of the triage is to stop the bleeding.”
UPDATE, September 28, 2009: Most partisan, gag-worthy use of taxpayer dollars so far this week… H/T to The Powers That Be: Capitol Hill Switchboard Recording Pitches Obamacare
Additional reading:
Philip Klein, American Spectator: Obama’s Media Blitz Doesn’t Help Approval Rating
Innocent Bystanders: August Unemployment Data
BusinessWeek: Why Paychecks Could Shrink
Maura Flynn, Big Government: Sarkozy Mocks Obama at UN Security Council: Hello, Big Media?
Andrew Marcus, Big Government: Barack Obama’s Working Families Party — “Tax The Rich and Give It Back To The Poor”
Goodtimepolitics: Obama Sinks, Sep 07, 2009 and Obama to Address Union – Union Approval Low – Obama’s Rating Falling
Politico: Paterson blames weak Obama record for friction
VotingFemale Speaks!: Sarah Palin Speaks! China Listens; Obama Overshadowed and Obama Law Enforcement, WESLEY CHEEKS, Declares: It Ain’t America No More, Okay?
Hot Air: Finally: Senators shouting at each over other ObamaCare now
Steven Crowder, Big Hollywood: Lonewolf Diaries: The Obama Era is Over and Berkeley: Mecca to Liberal Idiots
The Patriot’s Mind: Is Obama playing Godfather with the CBO?
Moonbat Patrol: Obama’s Plan, Sell The Smile, Detract, Confuse, Media Blitz A Ploy To Kill Momentum Against Health Care Plan
Just Americans Making Ethical Statements Weblog: New “Pledge” Policy being Pursued: A “Miranda”-type Warning
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Dragnet’s Sgt. Friday to Obama: “Don’t Try to Build a New Country, Make the Old One Work” (video) and Exposed: Laws Broken, White House Used NEA to Ramrod Obama’s Agenda, ACORN Offshoot “United We Serve” Org Involved, and More and Teetering POTUS See-Saw: Minus 13, Obama’s Lowest Approval to Date and Townhall Tyranny in Virginia: Obama-Joker Poster Forbidden at Rally, “Ain’t America No More” (video)
Publius, Big Government: Is Breitbart More Powerful than ACORN?
The American Spectator: The People Ain’t Happy With the President
Patterico, Big Hollywood: The NEA, The White House, The Lies and The Cover-Up
The Washington Times: Revealed: Partial list of August 10 National Endowment for the Arts conference call participants and $2 million behind National Endowment for the Arts politics push
Rogers Rules, Pajamas Media: Breaking News! National Endowment for the Arts Renamed National Endowment for Propaganda. Stay Tuned. “This is Only the Beginning.”
Radio Vice Online: Unemployment insurance: Who pays? and BigGovernment.com’s next big investigative report – Update: NEA
GayPatriot: In re: NEA Scandal, What Wasn’t Recorded? (At NEA & other agencies)
Dana Loesch, Big Government: Taxpayer Funded Serve.gov Filtering Activists to ACORN
JustOneMinute: So Many White People
VotingFemale Friends Speak!: Gallup Poll: the nation is swinging right
The Weekly Standard: People Power
Michelle Malkin: Why parents don’t trust the Educator-in-Chief and his comrades and I repeat: It’s not the speech, it’s the subtext
The Sundries Shack: The President Puts the “Suffer” in “Suffer the Children…”
The American Prospect: The Three Audiences Obama Has to Please
Right Wing News: Obama’s Approval Ratings Continue to Sink in NC
American Thinker: Obama as Leninoid
The Patriot’s Mind: Question Solved! Why our Politicians can’t remember their Oath!
GayPatriot: Did Obama supporters assume that their guy’s election meant opposition would cease*?
The Underground Conservative: Peak Disapproval For Obama and ObamaCare
Real Clear Thinker: Not Cool
Bradley Vasoli, The American Spectator: Fruitless Labor
Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Right: Congress going down with Obama
The Daley Gator: Your Non-Biased Media Moment of the Day
DaTechguy’s Blog: The game plan when you are 6000 behind…
Amused Cynic: “Redistributive Change:” The Silent Coup….
Stop Socialism Now: Bye Bye Miss American Pie The Day that Obama Care Died in America
Disturbing Trends: Risking Unemployment
Ztower: Frenchman suggests “Barack Obama is not the Messiah” Guillotine being rushed to the scaffold. UPDATE: Zbig sorta agrees.
The Substratum: White House Using Twitter and Facebook To Spread Lies About ObamaCare And What You Can Do About It – New Petition From ACLJ
Doug Powers, Michelle Malkin: Town hall time for Obama and ‘the mob’
About the author
[...] frugal-cafe.com Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Seeing and Setting Trends for September 25, 2009DEMS SURE OF TWO THINGS: KENNEDY DEATH WILL HELP; PUBLIC OPTION NOT NEGOTIABLENANCY PELOSI CASTS THE FIRST STONE – OBAMA BLOOD ON OPPOSITION HANDSChavez and Iran [...]
[...] Cafe: The Bigger Picture: Obama’s Average Monthly Approval Through August Dropping Every Month, Unemploy…and Jail-Time Mandate from Democrats: Prison, $25,000 Fines for Not Having Health [...]
IMO, Obama WANTS THE BLEEDING TO CONTINUE.
He doesn’t care about the jobless people, he want’s to create more dependency on the government for their needs.
His egotistical attitude on completing his agenda is paramount in his mind.
His rhetoric on global nuclear reduction is words, just words.
He spews lots of words seemingly everyday, however he should be more concerned with the domestic policies of the country that he claims to “serve”. (rule).
Obama cannot run the globe using his socialistic policies, people are catching on.
Philosophically, he will get in way over his head due to his arrogance and the internet.
His Waterloo is on the way.
IMO….
Recession Over…?
here is a map of Florida Unemployment in August 2009 (BLS data)
http://www.localetrends.com/st/fl_florida_unemployment.php?MAP_TYPE=curr_ue
versus Florida Unemployment Levels 1 year ago
http://www.localetrends.com/st/fl_florida_unemployment.php?MAP_TYPE=m12_ue
[...] The Bigger Picture: Obama’s Average Monthly Approval Through August Dropping Every Month, Unemploy… Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)On health care reform, Democrats’ best [...]