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Obama's Slipping Grip on the Public

ApolloSpeaks18 Wrote: Jul 15, 2009 11:38 AM
On April 3rd during his speech at Strasboug, France Obama's teleprompter malfunctioned when he came to the word "equality." Now 14 weeks later in Washington DC Obama's teleprompter screen crashes to the ground shattering in pieces just as he comes to the word "economy."
"Equality" "economy" put these words together and we get the cause of Obama's failing policies.

Click my name and read my piece: Observations and Comments on Obama's Teleprompter Disaster.

In the polling hierarchy, the least significant data measure is a president's personal popularity. Here, President Obama excels, with most polls showing him in the high 60s. Next comes his job approval, significant but not necessarily predictive.

Obama's approval, in the Rasmussen Poll, has now dipped to 51 percent, one point less than his 2008 vote share of 52 percent. In past polls, most voters registering disapproval for the president had voted for Sen. John McCain. Now, Obama's starting to lose people who backed him last November.

But the true predictive measurement is a...