Democrats will be gulping this morning at the Quinnipiac Poll's latest results. For the first time in the survey's history, Americans believe by a 48% to 40% margin that President Obama doesn't deserve re-election. Almost as stinging, a plurality believe the country would have been better off if John McCain had beaten Mr. Obama in 2008.I'm sure that by this point in his presidency John McCain would have done plenty of things to tick off conservatives, but he certainly would never have approved all of the crazy left stuff that we've seen come out of Congress these past 18 months.
The Quinnipiac Poll is pored over by political observers because it has a good predictive record and because its large sample size of nearly 2200 people implies a much smaller margin of error than most surveys -- around 2 percentage points.
Mr. Obama's approval rating continues to slide, and is dragging his party down. While last July Mr. Obama had a 57% positive rating, Quinnipiac now pegs him at just 44% approval -- a number below President Bill Clinton's approval rating just before his party lost control of Congress in 1994. When asked which party they plan to vote for this November, likely voters in the Quinnipiac survey picked Republicans by 43% to 38%. This was despite an expressed lack of confidence in the ability of Republican leaders in Congress to tackle the nation's problems.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Plurality Now Wishes McCain had Won
How the mighty have fallen (from John Fund):
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It's too bad that the "good old boy's club and NRC" didn't provide a better canidate than McCain, most likely the Republicans would have won the 2008 election and the country would be in a much better condition than it is today. Much of what is happening today is sort of like crying over spilt milk.
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