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HERE’S A STORY YOU WON’T HEAR ON MSNBC – Shocker polls: That Sarah Palin-Barack Obama Gap Melts To 1 Point (L. A. Times)
EDITOR’S NOTE: With all due respect to Mr. Obama and Ms. Palin, maybe next presidential election we can elect someone to the White House who actually has the background and experience to lead this great nation.
Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, look what the pollsters just brought in.
A pair of new surveys revealing that Democrat President Obama is still declining and has hit a new low in job approval among Americans just 56 weeks after they elected him with a decided margin.
And — wait for it — Republican Sarah Palin is successfully selling a whole lot more than books out there on the road. Even among those not lining up in 10-degree weather to catch a glimpse of pretty much the only political celebrity the GOP has these days.
First, el jefe. Facing double-digit unemployment, rising spending, deficits and Afghan war casualties plus a keystone but stalled healthcare reform effort that caused a rare Sunday presidential visit to Capitol Hill, Obama recently fell below 50% job approval for the first time.
Then, last week’s deft dance of rhetoric over sending reinforcements to Afghanistan but, on the other foot, bringing them home quickly maybe gave him a brief boost. That, however, collapsed with equal rapidity.
Obama’s new Gallup Poll job approval number is 47%. Last month it was 53%.
Regular Ticket readers will recall how in this space in late November we pointed out that Obama’s closely-watched job approval slide was coinciding with Palin’s little-noticed rise in favorability. And it appeared they might cross somewhere in the 40s.
Well, ex-Sen. Obama, meet ex-Gov. Palin.
FOR CONTINUATION OF THIS STORY, CLICK THIS LINK TO THE LOS ANGELES TIMES: Shocker polls: That Sarah Palin-Barack Obama gap melts to 1 point | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times.
