How low will he go?
A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll has bad news for Obama.
Public support for President Obama's Afghanistan war policy has plummeted amid a rising U.S. death toll and the unauthorized release of classified military documents, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows.
Support for Obama's management of the war fell to 36%, down from 48% in a February poll. Now, a record 43% also say it was a mistake to go to war there after the terrorist attacks in 2001.
The decline in support contributed to the lowest approval ratings of Obama's presidency. Amid a lengthy recession, more Americans support his handling of the economy (39%) than the war.
Even Obama's handling of the war in Iraq received record-low approval, despite a drawdown of 90,000 troops and the planned, on-schedule end of U.S. combat operations there this month.
Only 41% of those surveyed Tuesday through Sunday approved of the way Obama is handling his job, his lowest rating in the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll since he took office in January 2009. In Gallup's separate daily tracking poll, his approval was at 45% Monday.
I don't think there's any question that the wars are contributing to Obama's low approval rating, but I think it's far more than that.
He is not on the same page with the American people when it comes to ILLEGAL immigration and the enforcement of our laws.
Perhaps most responsible for his disastrous approval rating is his disastrous mismanagement of the economy.
It's the economy, stupid.
It seems to me that Americans are now properly holding Obama accountable for the state of the nation. President Bush and the Republicans are no longer viable scapegoats. Obama and the Democrats have all the power. They are responsible for people's dissatisfaction.
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