Obama's Approval Ratings Slump Ever-Lower
Watch those mid-term elections
As the George Zimmerman jury reached its Not Guilty verdict in Florida this weekend, a broad array of Americans were passing a different judgment on President Obama. And it's not good news for the casual president with his feet on the Oval Office desk.
Faced with a messy record of administration scandals and investigations and his ineffectiveness as a political leader to do much beyond blame others, Obama's important national leadership rating has fallen to its lowest level in more than a year. …
A new Rasmussen Reports survey of likely voters said only 43% of Americans now considers the Democrat an excellent or good leader. That's down from 55% late last year and 49% as recently as last month.
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So 43% of those asked revealed themselves to be complete morons, and the rest are suspect but passed this test, at least.
All the world's queer but me and thee, and I'm not so sure about thee.
Why does anyone care about a lame-duck's approval numbers? Even if Big O's rating dropped to negative fifty-brazillion we'd still be stuck with him.