Obama’s approval rating is down to 50 percent in the Quinnipiac poll.
We’re getting better, except we are not: “White House economic adviser Christina Romer said on Thursday that the $787-billion U.S. stimulus program was stabilizing the economy despite unacceptably high job losses.”
You saw this one coming — This Week beats Meets the Press.
Blanche Lincoln changes her mind — OK, maybe the health-care town-hall protesters aren’t “un-American” after all.
Nancy Pelosi isn’t going to let voters get in the way of health-care reform. No, really.
But she will keep busy during summer recess: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi moves in a rarefied world of high society and high-level politics — and nothing underscores that fact quite like her plans for the August recess. Pelosi will spend next weekend quietly tending to top party donors and political allies at a series of private events in Northern California.”
Obama’s support among independent voters plummets.
From a CNN poll: “‘Do you consider the first six months of the Obama administration to be a success or a failure?’ Thirty-seven percent (37%) said they believe the Obama administration is a ‘failure,’ while 51% consider it a ‘success’ and 11% say it’s still ‘too soon to tell.’ An identical question was asked of the Bush administration in an August 2001 CNN/Gallup/USA Today survey. At the time, 56% said the Bush administration was a ‘success’ while only 32% considered it a ‘failure.'”
Chris Christie’s double-digit lead is holding firm, and even Daily Kos has him up by eight points. Yes, but it’s only August.
From Mickey Kaus: “From out here on the West Coast, it sure looks as if OMB Director Peter Orszag is the Donald Rumsfeld of the looming health care quagmire, in the sense that a) it’s his strategy that’s failing — at least failing to win over public opinion; and b) it’s hard to see how the strategy changes with him in the position he’s in, and c) he’s a logical fall guy in any case.”
Sen. Ben Cardin decides to drop the conspiracy hooey and admit that voters at his town halls aren’t stooges. They have “legitimate questions.” Do you think respecting the voters will work? Hmm. Probably a long shot.
