There’s lots of bad news today for President Obama. Gallup’s recent polls show that by any measure, President Obama’s policies are now being considered a failure by the American people:
- By 49%-47%, those surveyed disapprove of how he is handling the economy, a turnaround from his 55%-42% approval in May. The steepest drop came from conservative and moderate Democrats.
- By 50%-44%, they disapprove of how he is handling healthcare policy.
- A 59% majority say his proposals call for too much government spending, and 52% say they call for too much expansion of government power.
- Expectations of the economy’s turnaround are souring a bit. In February, the average prediction for a recovery was 4.1 years; now it’s 5.5 years.
Some are referring to this sudden drop and his chips all in approach to passing health care reform, as being the President’s Waterloo, the moment at which he wins no more. I’m betting however, that with his enormous ego and narcissism, if asked, President Obama would refer to this as his Arnold Schwarzenegger moment. If questioned about whether he might need to change his position on some of these issues I have no doubt the President would answer, “I’ll be Barack!”
