Approval Index: Obama Sees 48 Point Drop in One Year
One year ago today, Rasmussen Reports was just beginning to track what they refer to as the “approval index” of President Barack Obama – a system that measures the difference between those who strongly approve and those who stronlgy dissaprove of the job he’s doing in office.
On January 22nd, 2009, he was at plus 30. Really, an astounding number.
Today, January 22nd, 2010, Obama has reached another asounding number: Minus 18. You don’t do that in one year without a tremendous amount of blind arrogance and terrible leadership.
Wow! He has been as low as minus 20 so he has already achieved a drop of 50. Some of this is due to the simple fact that there was a lot of superficial, un-critical approval in the plus 30 at the beginning. So a drop of 10 to 20 was probably inevitable. But he has governed SO MUCH different from his campaign. Campaign: No lobbyists, transparency, work with Republicans, bills posted where citizens can read them, negotiations on C-Span, etc. Had he kept his promises he would be down a lot less than 48.