Obama has been in office for a few days over a year and the voters are starting to look at his record and less at the Bush record and all across America voters are less than impressed.
Obama beat McCain 53% to 46% in the 2008 election (Virginia). Few of the topics Obama talked about have been realized and that spells trouble for local democrats even though local democrats have nothing to loose. (You have to hold an office to lose an office.) The trouble is gaining anything may be impossible when there is no accomplishment to hang your hat on.
What do you say? It would have been worse if you hadn't elected us. How do you make your case? We have been planning on fixing that for the last three years since we took over the House and for the last year while we controlled everything, it just sort of slipped by us.
Excuses no longer cut it. The tide is shifting and we are losing the trust of the people.
Here are results of polling in Virginia. These results are more bleak than the preceding paragraphs.
SurveyUSA, Dec. 11-13; SurveyUSA says 54 percent disapprove of Obama's performance while 44 percent approve, with 2 percent undecided.
Sixty-eight percent of whites (72 percent of the sample) disapprove while 88 percent of blacks (18 percent of the sample) approve. Independents disapprove by a 63 percent to 35 percent margin.
Last month, 60 percent disapproved and 37 percent approved.
Public Policy Polling, Oct. 31- Nov.1; Public Policy Polling says Virginians disapprove of Obama's performance by 52 percent to 41 percent with 6 percent undecided.
Suffolk University, Oct. 26-28; Suffolk says 50 percent approve of Obama's performance, 42 percent disapprove and 8 percent are undecided.
Roanoke College, Oct. 21-27; Roanoke says 46 percent disapprove of Obama's job performance, 45 percent approve and 10 percent give him mixed marks.
Rasmussen Reports, Oct. 27; Rasmussen says 51 percent disapprove of Obama's job performance while 49 percent approve and 1 percent is undecided.
Virginia Commonwealth University, Oct. 21-25; VCU says 49 percent rate Obama's performance excellent or good while 48 percent say it is fair or poor with 3 percent undecided.
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