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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on December 9, 2009

Christmas in Hawaii... more fun than being president with the lowest job approval of any other president

What would you do, if as POTUS, your approval numbers were the lowest of any president and more Americans still prefer a free market economy, despite the economic hardships of this past year and the putrid unemployment numbers?

Why, go to Hawaii for Christmas, of course.

And, on a more serious, scary note, you’d leave “Crazy Uncle” Joe Biden in charge of the country as acting president.

Not looking good, buttercup.

Pres. Barack Obama has the lowest approval ratings of his presidency, and the lowest of ANY recent president… including George W. Bush. Including NIXON.

From Rasmussen Reports, 76% Prefer Free Market Economy:

Support for a free market economy remains strong despite the extended recession and last fall’s Wall Street meltdown.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 76% of voters now say a free market economy is better than one managed by the government. Only 10% prefer an economy managed by the government.

Those figures are virtually identical to the numbers from April and a slight increase in support from a year ago.

President Obama’s approval numbers continue to slip. The most recent Gallup poll show his approval at a record low. Hawaii, here we come!

Gallup: Obama's approval rating returned to below majority level by weekend, slipped further to 47% in Dec. 4-6, 2009 polling

FOX News: Obama Least Liked President in Dec First Year, so says Gallup Poll Results of 47% | December 2009

From FOX News, Obama’s 47 Percent Approval Lowest of Any President at This Point:

President Obama’s job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point in his term.

Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and even Richard Nixon all had higher approval ratings 10-and-a-half months into their presidencies. Obama’s immediate predecessor, President George W. Bush, had an approval rating of 86 percent, or 39 points higher than Obama at this stage. Bush’s support came shortly after he launched the war in Afghanistan in response to the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he doesn’t “put a lot of stock” in the survey by Gallup, which has conducted presidential approval polls since 1938, longer than any other organization.

“If I was a heart patient and Gallup was my EKG, I’d visit my doctor,” Gibbs said in response to questions from Fox. “I’m sure a six-year-old with a Crayon could do something not unlike that. I don’t put a lot of stake in, never have, in the EKG that is daily Gallup trend. I don’t pay a lot of attention to the meaninglessness of it.”

Gallup Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport responded: “Gibbs said that if Gallup were his EKG, he would visit his doctor. Well, I think the doctor might ask him what’s going on in his life that would cause his EKG to be fluctuating so much. There is, in fact, a lot going on at the moment — the health care bill, the jobs summit, the Copenhagen climate conference and Afghanistan.”

The new low comes as Obama struggles to overhaul the nation’s health care system and escalates America’s involvement in the Afghanistan war. He is also presiding over a deep and prolonged recession, with unemployment at 10 percent.

“There’s no doubt Obama’s 47 percent is mainly a result of the continuing bad economy,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “But there is also a growing concern about government spending and debt, and a sense that Obama is trying to do too much, too soon.”

He added: “President Obama has reason to be concerned about his ratings. Even in tough times, presidents have usually been able to stay above the critical 50 percent mark in the first year, when the public is most inclined to give the new incumbent the benefit of the doubt.”

Obama officials have not always shown disdain for Gallup. During last year’s presidential campaign, Obama adviser David Plouffe, trumpeted “the latest Gallup poll” to reporters because it showed that 53 percent of Americans did not find Obama Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, “trustworthy.”

When Gallup began taking presidential approval polls 71 years ago, Franklin Roosevelt had been president for more than five years. During his remaining time in office, his job approval rating never fell below 48 percent.

The next 11 presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, all had higher job approval ratings than Obama at this stage of their tenure. Their ratings were:

– George W. Bush, 86 percent
– Bill Clinton, 52 percent
– George H.W. Bush, 71 percent
– Ronald Reagan, 49 percent
– Jimmy Carter, 57 percent
– Gerald Ford, 52 percent
– Richard Nixon, 59 percent
– Lyndon Johnson, 74 percent
– John Kennedy, 77 percent
– Dwight Eisenhower, 69 percent
– Harry Truman, 49 percent

The poll is an average of a three-day tracking of 1,529 adults taken Dec. 4-6. It has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

From VotingFemale Speaks!:

More Americans than not see Obama as a problem not a solution.

From Patterico’s Pontifications, My Kingdom for a Poll?:

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs claims the Obama Administration doesn’t care about today’s Gallup Daily Obama Job Approval poll, which is fortunate since it and other polls show Obama at the lowest rating of any modern President at this stage in his term…

And it’s not just Gallup:

“Rasmussen’s recent survey has Obama’s approval at 47 percent.

CNN/Opinion Research found Obama’s approval rating to be 48 percent.

Fox News/Opinion Dynamics pegged Obama’s approval rating at 46 percent.

The last poll to show Obama above 50 percent approval was conducted in mid-November by CBS News.”

From Hot Air, Obama’s approval rating the lowest of any president:

Obama promised a new era of change, and a lot of people bought into it. They ignored or didn’t know about his past voting patterns (present on everything), the fact that he’s done nothing to give him any kind of leadership or executive experience, where he stood on major issues (far, far to the left), who he associated with (terrorists and crooks), and on and on. The media covered for him and he got elected. He promised transparency, he promised bipartisanship. And a country sick of high school squabbling in DC bought it. He ran as a moderate Democrat who would be more fiscally responsible, help staunch our bleeding economy, and restore our standing in the world.

The problem is, they actually expected him to keep his word.

Obama’s federal deficit… and growing.

Obama and the Democrat weasels in Congress tripled the national deficit in less than one year.

Additional reading:
Gateway Pundit: Obama Tells GOP to Stop Scare Tactics As Dems Agree to Blow Billions More on Another Failed Jobs Creation Plan and Obama Unemployment Rate Remains in Double Digits — 10.0% and Dem’s NEW Jobs Plan will Only Cost America $300 Billion and House Republicans Ask Team Obama to Quit Repeating ‘Saved or Created’ Nonsense
Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea King: Obama Funder Jodie Evans on Her New ‘Tali’ Pals: Taliban Bring Peace and Justice, U.S. Created ‘Hell on Earth’ in Afghanistan
GayPatriot: If Obama is really concerned about cutting the deficit, he should take lessons from a certain former Governor and Hey, Ma’am, what about the jobs in California?
MotorCityTimes: Obama ‘Plans To Spend’ Our Way Out Of Recession
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: The Real Santa
VotingFemale Speaks!: Breaking: Obama announces proposals aimed at saving a job, His and 76% Prefer Free Market Economy, DHS Watch List Must be HUGE! lol and CBC Threatens ‘Actions’ against Obama over unemployments; Pelosi claims Socialism’s failures are Bush’s Fault! hahaha and Between 100,000 and 200,000 doctors officially reject ObamaCare and Number of Democrats Falls to Four-Year Low, so says Rasmussen Poll; butt kicking of Socialism mounts
The New Ledger, Big Government: Unpacking the Job Numbers, Roadblocks for Bernanke, and the Future of Mainstream Media
Ace of Spades HQ: Polls: Pollster.com’s Aggregated Average Puts Obama Underwater: Carville’s Democracy Corps Says Conservatives Make Big Gains
Hot Air: Examiner analysis: More than 10% of stimulus jobs are phony and Porkulus job numbers “wildly exaggerated”: Boston Globe?
Mike Flynn, Big Government: Obama Stimulus Numbers: The Return of Enron-Style Accounting
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), Big Government: Mr. President, Where Are the Jobs?
The New Ledger, Big Government: Economy in the Lurch: Negative Interest Rates, the Fed Audit, and Geithner in the Dock and Do the Democrats Have Any Solutions on Jobs? Anything at All?
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Eye-Rolling Time… Obama Now Claims He “Created or Saved One Million Jobs” (video) and Obama’s Disintegrating Economy: Worst Unemployment, at 10.2%, Since 1983… Obama Takes a Mini-Vacation, Still Hasn’t Gone to Fort Hood (video) UPDATE: He Has Gone to Ft. Hood, Finally and Illegal Immigration from Mexico Slowing, Has Dramatically Dropped Because of America’s Plunging Economy and Please Send in Clowns to Replace Obama Morons: Pay Increases Were Counted as Recovery Program’s “Jobs Saved” and Exaggeration Proclamation: Obama’s Economic Plan Overstated, by Thousands, Jobs Claimed Were Created

Steven Green, Big Government: The Political Landscape: The Slobs Versus the Snobs
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Obama – we must spend our way out of this recession
Ace of Spades HQ: Reid: I’m So Totally Stoked My Health Care Reform Bill Will “Save” $127 Billion Over Ten Years, Which Is Less than October’s One Month Deficit
Outside the Beltway: Congress to Investigate Fake Districts
Jumping in Pools: Obama Approval Under 50% According to Quinnipiac, Fox News, Rasmussen, and Gallup Polls
Michelle Malkin: The Stimulus Jobs Inflation Map and The Stimulus Jobs Inflation Index
Tai-Chi Policy: Just How Bad Is The Democrat’s Spending?
Capitol Confidential, Big Government: Bob Creamer, Architect of ObamaCare, and His Pattern of Corruption
Doug O’Brien, Big Government: More Stimulus Math: Cooking the Books on Stimulus Jobs
The Powers That Be: Unemployment Stimulated Again
The American Pundit: Pork-Loving Senators Diverted Billions in Funds from Troops
The Lonely Conservative: $2.6 Billion Cut From Defense to Fund Pork
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Stimulus Creating “Full-Time Job Equivalents”

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