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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 11, 2010

Pres. Obama’s current presidential approval index of negative 22 ties with a previous all-time low that occurred on May 26, 2010.

Wonder if Michelle “Material Girl” Obama’s royalty extravaganza to Spain with 40 of her BFFs had any influence on the president’s low approval rating?

From Rasmussen Reports:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 24% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-six percent (46%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -22 (see trends).

This matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for this president…

Over the past week, the Approval Index ratings have been more volatile than usual and it is unlikely that perceptions of the president have shifted that much. Rather, with results reported on a three-day rolling average basis, the volatility appears to be the result of one day with results outside of the normal range working its way through the system. Over the past couple of months, the president’s full-month Approval Index rating has been -16 or -17.

Seventy percent (70%) believe that most members of Congress trade votes for cash or campaign contributions. Fifty-six percent (56%) say it’s likely their own representative in Congress has done the same.

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The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve.

Minus 22 approval rating ties all-time low for Obama, from Rasmussen Reports - Wed., August 11, 2010

Imagine how much lower BHO’s approval rating would be if the left-wing JournoList media didn’t fawn all over him, or make excuses for him, or made an effort once in a while to report the full truth of the damage this community organizer man-child has done to the country.

On the brighter side for our negative-approval-rated POTUS, Sen. Michael Bennet, Obama’s pick for the Colorado Democrat slot for the Senate, won, beating out former Pres. Bill Clinton’s choice of former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff:

After months of taking a beating, the Democratic party finally got some much-needed good news in yesterday’s primaries.

The biggest victory came in Colorado, where Michael Bennet, the candidate backed by President Obama and the party establishment, won handily. After backing several candidates who went on to lose this primary season, the president may have needed this win more than anyone.

What isn’t pointed out in the news account above is that incumbent Bennet’s primary victory of receiving 183,521 votes is diminished when compared to the GOP and Tea Party-endorsed winner, Ken Buck, who received 209,967 votes. In a blue state like Colorado, conservative newcomer Buck surpassing the number of votes that the incumbent liberal senator received should spell trouble with a capital “T” to the Democrat party.

Unless they’re still punch-drunk giddy with delight that FINALLY, HALLELUJAH, a primary pick endorsed by Dear Leader wasn’t bloodily annihilated at the polls.

And even then, Bennet received just 54% of the Democrat vote (coincidentally, 54% is the same percentage Obama captured in Colorado in the 2008 presidential election), which isn’t all that shabby, but nothing to do cartwheels over.

Especially in Colorado.

UPDATE… Rush Limbaugh weighed in on this on his radio show today: It’s Historic! Incumbent Senator Endorsed by Incumbent Prez Wins!:

It’s a big day for Barack Obama in the partisan political operative media. And why is it an historic day? It’s an historic day, folks, because Obama has been on a endorsement losing streak. His shirttails were made of toilet paper. Nobody can hold onto ‘em. Literally an endorsement by Obama was the kiss of death. And so today, in fairness and friendship, ladies and gentlemen, fairness and friendship, we congratulate a sitting president, a party leader, a man respected everywhere for such an historic event, the man he endorsed — the incumbent he endorsed won. This is huge! This is huge, folks! It’s historic! Never before has this happened! A sitting president has endorsed an incumbent who won! History continues to be made. That’s how they’re portraying this in the media.

I mean, here it is in The Politico by John Harris. And this prints out to, like, five pages. “Primary night yields good news for President Obama and Democrats — Obama and the Democrat Party, who have been starved for good news through much of 2010, finally received a generous helping Tuesday night.” Translation: “The apparatchik media, starved for any excuse to say something good about a tanking president, took this excuse, the endorsement of an incumbent who wins, to do so.” “Republicans, meanwhile, were left with several new reasons to wonder whether all the favorable national trends showing in the polls are enough to overcome local candidates who are inspiring little confidence about their readiness for the general election 12 weeks from now.” Okay, let me translate this again. “Republican insiders, who do not understand the tea party movement any more than the apparatchiks do, are the only ones worried about the local candidates’ readiness.” Where was this concern for inexperience when Obama was running for office? “Inspiring little confidence about their readiness for the general election 12 weeks from now”? Nobody was worried about the Obama’s readiness, at least in the Drive-By Media.

“In each of the four states that held primaries on Tuesday, the GOP either nominated or gave an overnight lead to candidates tarnished by scandal, gaffes or some other significant vulnerability” — as opposed to scandal-ridden Democrats who are members of the ruling class, and who head committees that, say, write all of our tax laws?

So it’s only the Republicans who are scandal-plagued? They have been so starved at Politico, so starved in the State-Controlled Media, to write something positive about Obama that it is hilariously ridiculous. In their primary election analysis from last night, Politico demonstrates a typical, inside-the-Beltway ruling class mind-set. They have no idea what you are thinking, no idea what you have on your mind. I could go through this whole thing. I’m not going to waste my time, but there’s a lot of teachable moments here about ruling class thinking in both parties, and in the partisan political operative media. I mean you read this Politico piece if you want to, we’ll link to it at RushLimbaugh.com, it’s funny enough to be a spoof. I mean, they are bending themselves like pretzels to make all of this one outcome in Colorado a great historic day for our beloved young man-child, President Barack Obama.

Senator Bennet says he’ll “have to see”, though, whether he wants President Obama on the trail. “Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) said he’ll ‘have to see’ whether he wants President Obama to campaign with him this fall. Bennet, fresh off a primary victory over former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff (D) Tuesday night, said it was too soon to say whether he wanted Obama to campaign with him.” And yet here’s The Politico saying something historic happened yesterday. A sitting president endorsed an incumbent who won. Happy days are here again. We’re back to normal. Barack Obama, who used to have toilet paper for coattails, is now on a huge winning streak. But the guy he endorsed, not so sure he wants Obama in town to campaign for him. “‘We’ll have to see,’ the freshman senator said on ‘Good Morning America’ when he was asked [about it]. ‘We’ll obviously do what’s right for the campaign. [Obama's] been a huge help and I appreciate his endorsement,’ Bennet said. ‘And we’ll see what happens between now and November.’… The senator’s victory delivered sighs of relief at the White House, which had also sought to battle an emerging storyline that the president was politically toxic to Democrats, who are fighting to retain their House and Senate majorities.” And he is. He is. An incumbent wins.

You know, Bill Clinton is no king in endorsing anybody, either. So here you have two endorsement losers competing against each other, Clinton and Obama, one of them had to win. The incumbent wins, it’s fairly close, and we, my friends, find ourselves immersed in an historic moment in American history?

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