What Happened To That Bump?

[red states rule]

Even with glowing press coverage, Obama's numbers are falling faster then Bill Clinton's pants

Last week, President Barack Obama signed historic health care reform
legislation into law – but his legislative success has not helped his
image with the American public. The latest CBS News Poll finds
Americans unhappier than ever with his performance handling health
care – and still worried about the state of the economy.

President Obama’s overall job approval rating has fallen to an alltime
low of 44%, down five points from late March, just before the
bill’s passage in the House of Representatives. It is down 24 points
since his all-time high last April. 41% now disapprove.

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/po...040210_7am.pdf

[red states rule]

and now even Democrats are telling Obama to stay away

As Democrats size up the election map for this November's midterms, they're proceeding with caution when it comes to deploying their strongest political weapon in the last election cycle: President Obama.

As Anne Kornblut reports today in the Washington Post, Obama has yet to appear in several battleground states where Democratic incumbents are fighting hard to hang onto their Senate seats. Among them are Obama's home state of Illinois, where his own former Senate seat is in play — and where conservative activists are hoping to notch another high-value symbolic victory, like their successful bid to elect Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts to fill the seat of departed Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy.

White House strategists also won't be dispatching Obama to Arkansas, where Sen. Blanche Lincoln is facing a primary challenge from the left — and plummeting home-state approval figures, in part for her vote in favor of the initial health care reform bill approved in the Senate last December. It's likely that Obama won't be visiting many Southern states when election season goes into full swing this fall, since embattled centrists there will be contending with the region's sluggish economy and a conservative Democratic electorate that's distrustful of free-spending domestic policy initiatives like the health care reform that Obama signed into law last month.

As Kornblut notes, the only electioneering stop Obama has made on behalf of a Senate candidate came in the homestretch of Massachusetts Attorney Gen. Martha Coakley's campaign for the Kennedy seat — and there's not much evidence that Obama helped change many minds, based on Brown's comfortable 5-point margin of victory.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/201004...s/ynews_ts1445

[actsnoblemartin]

obama has less of a bump, then what your car goes over

and now even Democrats are telling Obama to stay away

[Binky]

Even with glowing press coverage, Obama's numbers are falling faster then Bill Clinton's pants

OMG! Thanks for the visual....I've been hoping never to have that one again. So much for hope....

[namvet]

BO is a speed bump.

he blames Rush and Beck for his fall

[red states rule]

OMG! Thanks for the visual....I've been hoping never to have that one again. So much for hope....