More bad news for President Obama in this Debt Limit debate: His poll numbers are dropping. In the latest series of Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll on Wednesday (1), Obama's job approval is down to 45% with likely voters. It's stayed in that low to mid 40s place, by the way, for the past week or so.
Further, and this is very important: 42% of Americans STRONGLY DISAPPROVE of the job Obama is doing. That translates to mean that 42% of Americans will almost certainly not vote for Obama in 2012. A further 11% somewhat disapprove of Obama's job performance. Meanwhile, the total approval for Obama is only 45%. You see what I'm saying here? The number of people who are saying "I don't like anything Obama is doing" nearly matches the total number of people who think Obama's doing even a moderately okay job.
Do the math, friends. This means that as much as 20% of the voting public can be persuaded to vote against Obama (depending on the day's fluctuations). From this standpoint, we only need to persuade 1/3 of those people to vote Republican. Just 1/3. If half of those people vote Republican in 2012, Obama would lose 55% to 35%. That's a nice victory.
While we're at it, the two most reliable polls out there, Gallup (2) and Rasmussen (3), showed in July that a generic Republican beats Obama. Gallup's poll of registered voters showed a Republican beating Obama 47% to 39%. Rasmussen's poll of likely voters shows a Republican beating Obama 47% to 41%. Obama keeps beating every candidate not named Romney in these polls, but those who are familiar with polls will tell you that this is a matter of the other Republican candidates not being well known by the public yet. (Many people choose the known quantity over the unknown automatically.)
Obama is losing support quickly. It's precisely what conservatives have been predicting for years now: Once Obama has a record. He cannot continue to speak in platitudes and claim a moral high ground that doesn't belong to him. The American public is becoming wise to Obama's game, and they don't want it.
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(1) Rasmussen Obama Approval Index History
(2) Gallup: "Republican Candidate" Extends Lead vs. Obama to 47% to 39%
(3) Rasmussen Poll: Generic Presidential Ballot
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