CNN Poll: Plurality say Obama's policies will likely fail

CNN Poll: More Americans Believe Obamas Radical Agenda Will Fail & Trust GOP Congress Over Obama to Handle Issues
Who said Obama was the come back kid and on a rebound? In the most recent CNN/Opinion Research poll , more Americans believe that Barack Obama’s radical policies will fail. Just one year ago a majority of Americans thought Obama’s policies would succeed. However, that was until they fully realized what his radical policies were all about.  Also, Americans have confidence in Republicans over Barack Obama, 40% to 35%,  to handle the problems facing the country. Full CNN poll resu

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Voting time for first poll of 2011
As mentioned earlier this week Nevada will be one of our first two polls of 2011 and we're letting you vote on the other one. Here are the finalists: -Arizona. After Nevada and Massachusetts this is probably the best of the limited pick up opportunities for Democrats on the Senate front and it's also along with Missouri and Montana one of the few states Barack Obama could conceivably flip to blue in 2012 although I imagine it's one of the places where only the GOP nominating Sarah Palin would m...

White House responds to obstructionism with six recess appointments
White House RESPONDS TO OBSTRUCTIONISM WITH SIX Recess AppointmentS.... James Cole spent 13 years as Justice Department official, and is an accomplished attorney. When President Obama nominated him to be the deputy Attorney General -- the second highest-ranking position in the department, effectively Justice's chief operating officer -- few questioned Cole's qualifications or abilities. But conservative Republicans didn't like him. In particular, Cole had criticized Bush/Cheney's dubious natio...

Getting Below the Surface
We of course know that the November 2, 2010, Elections were historical on many different levels. The Republican gains of 63 seats in the House and 6 in the Senate dwarf the Republican Revolution of 1994 and double the historical average gains in the Senate for a party out of power. These gains were made despite a cash-strapped Republican National Committee (RNC), strategic decisions by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) to spend $8 million in the long-shot California Senate race...

Poll: Obama advances, Palin loses ground
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's tax deal with congressional Republicans hasn't hurt his standing among Democrats, a CNN poll indicates. The poll, released Tuesday, also indicates former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2008, may be losing ground within her party. The CNN/Opinion Research Corp survey indicated 78 percent of Democrats said they want to see Obama head their party's ticket in 2012, while 19 percent saying they would prefer some...

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...

The Political Moment of the Year
If anyone had any doubts that 2010 was former Pres. Bill Clinton’s year, the moment he took over the White House press room proved the point conclusively. …and Barack Obama, who never showed Bill Clinton the respect he deserved before becoming president, has a new appreciation for WJC, because former Pres. Clinton did things in 2010 that Pres. Obama couldn’t come close to achieving himself. Now not only is Sect. Hillary Clinton the most admired woman in the country, but it wa...

Jobless claims hit lowest mark in more than two years
Weekly Unemployment claims dropped to 388,000 last week, hitting their lowest rate in more than two years. Coupled with other signs of Economic Growth, the report from the Labor Department comes as welcome news for both the White House and congressional Republicans, who agreed to a massive $858 billion tax package this month meant in part to spark The Economy and lower the jobless rate. This is the first time that weekly claims have fallen below 400,000 since July 1988, and the figures beat ec...

The Plum Line: The odd GOP compulsion to punish Democrats retroactively
My favorite in this genre, the all-time classic, is the 22nd Amendment, which Republicans passed to punish FDR by prohibiting Ike, Reagan, and W. from serving a third term. (Okay, granted, the only one who realistically had a shot of a third term has been Clinton, but still...) The newest? Punishing Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid by legislatively prohibiting future lame-duck sessions of Congress. Never mind that it's a silly idea; as Matt Yglesias correctly tweeted, "They realize hypothetic...

Obama Bypasses Senate With More Recess Appointments, Including First Ambassador to Syria in 5 Years
Thursday, December 30, 2010 By Matthew Lee, Associated Press President Barack Obama waves from the ninth green at Mid-Pacific County Club while on Vacation in Kailua, Hawaii, on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) Washington (AP) - President Barack Obama has bypassed the Senate and directly appointed four new U.S. ambassadors whose nominations had been stalled or blocked by lawmakers for months. The White House announced Wednesday that Obama would use his power to make recess a...

More Recess Success
President Obama made six Recess Appointments on Wednesday as Senate Republicans stalled the confirmation process in 2010. Obama first nominated James Cole to the No. 2 Justice Department post in May. But Republican lawmakers blocked his confirmation in part because of questions about his role as an independent consultant for AIG before its near collapse and Government Bailout in 2008. Senate Republicans complained that confidentiality agreements prevented them from receiving answers about his wo...

Paging Mr. Smith! How The Senate May Return To The Old-School Filibuster
On January 5, 2011 -- the first day of the 112th Congress -- Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) will touch of a long debate, which he hopes will result in a majority-rules vote on a package of meaningful changes to the Senate rules. After a series of private conversations with Democratic members, he and his allies have settled upon a framework including three distinct reforms designed to unclog the Senate and scale back the minority's power. The consensus package will aim to put an end to "secret holds" (a...

Obama, Republicans face new Washington battles
Stumble This! WASHINGTON — Barack Obama returns to a transformed Washington next week, with empowered Republicans bristling for a defining Budget fight and the calendar relentlessly pointing to the 2012 election. President Obama will swap the peace of his Hawaii Vacation for a stormy new political season, looking more resilient and self-confident than many thought possible with his political stock replenished by year-end victories. But the rare period of Bipartisanship between Democrats a...

Tea Party Dominates Google's Top 10 Politicians In 2010
Google released its list of the top 10 politicians who were most searched by Americans in 2010, and the results reflect the ups and downs of an important election year. “We aggregate billions of searches that were done over the year to try to get an indication to get what the United States was interested in the past 12 months,” said a spokesman for Google of the Zeitgeist 2010. “The lists help better identify what’s new, what’s interesting, what people are more cu...

President Obama 2010 Year in Review: Domestic Policies
President Obama may be looking forward to 2011 as he spends his Christmas holiday in Hawaii, but if the president is hoping to put the Midterm Election defeat and other issues behind him, it's possible 2010 could follow the White House into the new year, and is probably going to continue to influence how the administration works through domestic policies in 2011 and beyond. For many, even within the Democratic party, the president's biggest misstep was Health Care Legislation. While Obama made t...

CNN Opinon Research Poll: Americans Trust GOP Over Obama to Handle Nations Problems - More Believe Obama's Radical Agenda Will F
In the latest CNN Opinon Research Poll - more Americans have confidence in Republicans (40%) over Barack Obama (35%) to handle the problems facing the country. And perhaps even more telling of the public's mood, a plurality of Americans (47%) today also understand that Barack Obama’s big-government Socialist policies will fail. The real stunner is that this comes from CNN. Still, we can't underestimate the stupidity of the American electorate to v...

CNN Poll: Growing Number Now Believe Obamas Policies Will Fail
As President Obama heads into 2011, the number of Americans who believe his policies will fail is rising. A just-released CNN poll also finds the number of people actively “rooting for” the president’s agenda to fail is also on the rise. Still, there’s hope for the president in the poll, as more than 60 percent of Americans polled still support Obama’s policies-and on a personal level, people like him: The survey suggests that Obama’s ace-in-the-hole rem...

Obama works around Congress on healthcare, climate change policy
Republicans are preparing an array of budgetary, legislative and political strategies to fight regulatory action by President Obama. Without Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and a majority in the House, Obama is expected to rely heavily on his executive power to influence policy over the next two years. To counter that effort, Republicans hope to cut off funding for the new healthcare law and, through Legislation, to block efforts by agencies to regulate greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Intern...

Combating the Obama Hate Machine
Mike Allen has excerpts from the new epilogue to Jonathan Alter's paperback edition of The Promise: President Obama, Year One, which notes it's hard for President Obama "to avoid withering criticism, whatever the facts." "This was largely the result of the Right's ability to use Fox News and Talk Radio to frame the terms of political debate. With bogus stories concocted nearly ever day (for instance the ludicrous claim that his trip to India cost Taxpayers $200 million a day), Obama was beginn...

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." ...

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 Taps Key Justice Nominee For Recess Appointment
What is this? Jim Cole, who's been waiting for the Senate to act on his nomination to be deputy Attorney General longer than anyone else who's been nominated to that position in the past 30 years, is being put into the job via a "Recess Appointment," the White House just announced. His name pops up along with those of five people being put into ambassadorships. As NPR's Carrie Johnson reported last month, when Cole had already been waiting for more than two months, he is headed for a job that ma...