Why Is Obama Still Popular With The American People?
Why Is Obama Still Popular With The American People?
Only One Reason:
The Republican Party!
President Barack Obama’s administration has had lapses of administration failures and frustration during his early days as President, just as all new Presidents have experienced. Time is the greatest teacher for Presidents and their administrative staffs, the same as in all past administrations. This President, however, has taken America and our policies on a sharp left-hand turn in policy. During a once in a lifetime economic slowdown, this President is attempting to re-write much of the American success story. The American media in general is not reporting this hard policy shift, instead dealing with major issues like the first family’s new dog or the latest fashion trend offered by our new First Lady. Errors in judgment are quickly reported and then dropped from all future discussions. The hard right-wing conservative media sources are screaming to their listeners about this overt shift in policy to the far-left with expected results.
The President’s popularity numbers have of course dropped from the inauguration initial numbers, since the President had roughly two full months of nothing but positive news reporting from the election until inauguration day. This policy shift has taken his popularity down but not to the devastating levels that would have happened if any other President of recent history had tried such a sudden shift in governing principles. Yes, the President’s popularity numbers are down, but they are still in a very strong positive all things considered. Why is this? That is the question you must ask yourself.
Why is President Obama still so popular? Several reasons for this popularity are obvious.
1. The majority of the TV and Print media are still only reporting positive news and limiting negative news. This segment of the media and their constant praise and instant ridicule of any negative assertions is worth at least 7 to 10 points nationally.
2. The Conservative talk-TV and talk-radio leaders are only preaching to the choir. Obama never had their votes in his column as it related to popularity.
3. Any President that attempts any short-term military action will receive the overwhelming support of the American public. Americans love short-military incursions and they do not even have to be successful. They like the idea that our President tried to do something to right a situation using the military.
a. Gerald Ford authorized a disastrous rescue of a captured American ship (the personnel had in fact been already released at the time of the attack and we lost an entire helicopter and our troops inside – yet Ford went up in the polls).
b. Jimmy Carter authorized a rescue of our captured embassy staff in Iraq and there was a crash in the desert during the staging, losing many lives. Carter went up in the polls because the American people thought he at least tried.
c. Ronald Reagan, after the deaths of over 200 Marines in Lebanon, attacked a small Caribbean Island of Granada and went up in the polls.
d. Bill Clinton attacked some scattered tents in the desert doing next to no damage as a way of retaliating for the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York and he went up in the polls.
e. Barack Obama goes after pirates in the Middle East and he goes up in the polls. This President and his staff know history. The old saying always was, “foreign wars distract the American People from internal troubles.”
Nevertheless, this President, in slightly more than 100 days in office, had attacked the very core of America’s traditional economy, a principle that had separated American from the rest of the world for over two centuries. Talks about nationalizing American banks, taking over a large share of the auto industry, limiting the pay of executives in private companies, entitlements still being used, bailouts to businesses that are wasting our money and his bowing to a member of the Arab Royalty have led to his small drop in popularity, even with an unbelievable support of the main stream media.
However, there is still one main and unspoken reason that will save this President in popularity polls for the considerable future and that reason is the Republican Party. America and more important, the American Middle Class remembers that it was the Republicans that totally misused their control of the Congress for over ten years and for six years of that time period, they even controlled the White House. Nevertheless, the American Middle Class saw a political party that seemed to care more about enriching themselves, piety arguments, and blind obedience to a non-responsive White House than in ruling the country.
The American Middle Class didn’t vote against John McCain in the last general election – the American Middle Class voted against the Republican Party.
The reason Obama can act as if he is immune from the contempt of the American people is that the American Middle Class may not like what he is doing – but at least it is better than what the Republicans did to this country for the previous eight years. Obama is safe as long as he makes the Middle Class remembers their anger at the Republicans. It may sound strange in political talk but the Republicans are Barack Obama’s best friends. They put him in office and they are the ones keeping his poll numbers high. The American Middle Class may not like what President Obama is doing but if they consider the Republicans as the only other option, then the Middle Class will give the President more time and a second chance. They know what the Republicans would do and that is why the Middle Class is still supporting the President.
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