Time Magazine Poll

Time Magazin just released a poll on President Obama's performance in office. Consider this is summer--Obama's bad season as we've seen since 2008. The Republican headquarters near the House buildings now sport a large "Fire Pelosi" banner in red. Senator Corker of Tennessee said today that Obama doesn't have the leadership to create jobs. We'll visit the Chamber of Commerce strategy in a later post but the filthy rich have $14 trillion that is not being invested and American corporations have $2 trillion they have not put to work yet.

So pretty grim news. So Obama's approval rating in the Time poll is 49% with 45% disapproving. In a match-up of Obama versus George W. Bush--it's Obama by 53 to 33%. Against Sarah Palin 55-34%.

On Foreign Affairs, Obama's approval is 52 to 41%. On Afghanistan 47-44%.
53% disapprove of his immigration policies. 54% disapprove of how he handled the BP affair.

On right track-wrong track. 56% think the U.S. is on the wrong track. Still in 2008, right track was 18%. This new number is actually about a 6% improvement over the last few months.

On the economy, 61% blame George W. Bush; 27% blame Obama. Given the media pounding of Obama on this issue, I find this number encouraging.

31% to 26% believe Obama's policies have helped. The large number of undecideds is worrisome.

Before Tan Man Boehner measures for drapes, he should know by 43-39% Americans trust Democrats more on the economy. In the generic poll, Democrats have a 43-42% lead.

On the Deficit, Americans do not want to cut Social Security and Medicare. The majority want to balance the budget by cutting defense spending. This is an interesting development. And Conservatives want to cut unemployment benefits by a 49-21% margin.

What is absolutely fascinating is that 80% of Americans believe the economy has stabilized and heading in the right direction. This may account for 2/3rds of Americans don't want additional stimulus spending.

So far the polls this summer reflect that the American people still remain relatively sane and still possess their faculties.