Why does the President keep gong RIGHT as his polls

[OHdem10]

continuously drop???? Where are the Political Advisors?

Go back to around January, the WH apparently
responded to Repubs and Tea Party with agreement
on Deficit Reduction as Priority. Bloomberg
has run pieces explaining how our country has
taken the Austerity Route. The President cannot
speak 5 sentences without bringing up Deficit
Reducation. More and more, he sounds like a
Republican.

I have supported this President but at some
point we have see clearly--not blind loyalty.
I am questioning their Political Acumen at
the White.

Months go by and his poll numbers are sinking.
Deficit Reduction is Austerity. It appears
he agrees with GOP. Polls Drop.

I hear the Third Way is obsessed with Independents.
The more Obama sounds like a Republican, he is
losing the Independents.

Some common sense please. The Democratic Party
has always been considered the party to trust
on providing safety nets and looking out for
the people. The Third Way, DLC Blue Dogs have
blurred the vision and now the President
is being seen as a Fake Republican. May I remind
them it was Fake Republicans who lost in 2010
not Liberals/Progressives. Making Libersls/Progressives
irrelevant is a loss for the President and
Democratic Party. Fake Republicans just do not
cut the ice for anyone.

Go back and track the Presidents Polls as he
falls falls falls screaming--we must cut the
Deficit.

[Renew Deal]

1. Do you have polls to cite?

Because I saw polls that have him ahead of every republican running.

[warrior1]

2. .

[BeyondGeography]

3. Because his polls have dropped less than Congress, the D's and, especially, the R's

Why do you restrict yourself to six
or seven words per line? It's kind of
annoying.

[mmonk]

4. They determined after 2010, that is the direction to take in order to win.

It's been the failed reading of elections for some time now.

[Harmony Blue]

Right

Wrong lessons learned from 2010 mid terms.

[Harmony Blue]

7. Right

Wrong lessons learned from 2010 mid terms.

[leeroysphitz]

15. I disagree. The dems have used winning as an excuse to move right as well.

The writing is on the wall. Big money is pushing everybody that relies on it for re-election hard and fast to the right. In despite of whatever thin excuses they conjure up to explain why they are fucking the people over.

[mmonk]

25. It is coming to that but the strategy predates it to Reagan's victory.

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[Motown_Johnny]

6. because ~85% of liberals still approve of him and he is trying to win centrists

http://www.gallup.com/poll/148760/Obama-Weekly-Approval-Liberal-Support-Remains-High.aspx

^snip^

Liberal Democrats give Obama 83% approval rating






Silly question

[zippy890]

8. thanks for the reality check

:hug:

[OHdem10]

9. Tweety has shown polls, Cnn has shown polls Fox has shown

polls(not just Fox Polls). His disapproval is
higher than his approval. Some have his approval
dropping below 45%.

Watch the News on Various TV Channels. This is
what America believes because most Americans
get their news from TV.

[Motown_Johnny]

21. it is a debt debate blip, he will be above 50% when the election rolls around

the guy is a closer


He knows when and how to get the votes he needs.

[yarn_chick]

23. A closer? For whom? Certainly not the unemployed you can barely get the man to use the word "jobs"

he keeps going on about "job creators" which just shows he has no understanding of basic economics and is taking his Economic advice from people who have it ass backward.

[cilla4progress]

11. Absolutely -

can you picture a scale, lib on the left, conserv on the right, with all current/remaining pres candidates? If you put it into a mathematical equation, it would move the so-called left, so far right, to have it be the center, that...well - you get the picture!

:yoiks:

[leeroysphitz]

10. Only a republican would focus on deficit reduction during the worst economy since the depression. n/

[TheKentuckian]

12. and only a very stupid and extremely ideological Republican would do that.

Cutting demand in a meltdown is insanity beyond any rational brand of politics.

[leeroysphitz]

13. but there it is.

[bigwillq]

14. Gong rhymes with bong.

:rofl:

[krabigirl]

16. I agree. It is a huge mistake IMO.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

17. because he knows good and well

that professed liberals will vote for him in the election come next Nov no matter what they say. He has something like an 87% approval rating among liberals despite all the non-liberal things he has done while in office. He has them wrapped up...now he has to go looking for the independents who need to see him moving right...

sP

[ladjf]

18. Regardless of polls claiming that 87% of the liberals will vote for

Obama, I don't believe that they will. Nor do I believe that he will win the election.

Obama was elected because they wanted a Democratic President. They didn't get it. So, why would they vote for him again? I know, because if they don't a Republican will be elected. That argument is on the verge of being rendered moot.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

22. i can see that point of opinion...

i am just not really all that sure it is true...my bet is that they will vote for him yet again...time will tell.

sP

[Wounded Bear]

19. I think my sig rather says it all.....

I don't know why they do it....well actually I do, but......that's how it's been going for the past few election cycles.

Seems the rich are winning the War on the Middle class/

:shrug:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. Because conventional wisdom says that pandering to the right is the way to win.

Hell, it may even be true. But, it leaves the left with the choice of "lesser of two evils" or voting one's conscience.

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 1789.

"Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man." Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 1795.

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." John Quincy Adams

[PufPuf23]

24. POTUS Obama is neo-liberal in economic and foreign policy, and appointments.

I expect POTUS Obama to be re-elected but he will not be the "Rock Star" of 2008.

Obama's campaign rhetoric was somewhat a cypher and the neoliberal bent was not evident until after the election.

The GOP can take 2012 though. If we get a batshit crazy (Bachman, Perry), who really knows who is running the USA?

Heck, I am confused now.