New Gallup polls shows 54% of Americans are racist

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LAT:

Gallup: Obama job rating sinks below 40% for first time

President Obama’s summer woes have dragged his approval rating to an all-time low, sinking below 40% for the first time in Gallup’s daily tracking poll.

New data posted Sunday shows that 39% of Americans approve of Obama’s job performance, while 54% disapprove. Both are the worst numbers of his presidency.

Obama’s approval rating has hovered in the 40% range for much of 2011, peaking at 53% in the weeks following the death of Osama bin Laden.

But Americans’ view of his job performance continued to tick downward as the debt-ceiling debate heated up. By the time he signed legislation averting a federal default, he was mired in the low-40% range.

The polling setback comes as the Republican race to unseat him has kicked into overdrive. The past week has been dominated by the activity in Iowa ahead of the Ames Straw Poll, and the entrance of a new contender in Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The candidates have routinely assailed Obama’s leadership in appealing to conservative activists who dominate this stage of the nominating contest.

Obama is set to launch something of a counter-offensive on Monday with a three-day bus tour of the Midwest, a trip that includes two stops in Iowa. The White House denied that the itinerary was politically motivated, however.

How low can Dick go? I dunno, but remember when ABG was bragging that Dick was the mostest popularest PEOTUS ever? That turnaround is historic!

Somewhere in Plains, Georgia a peanut farmer is smiling.

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Winners, losers and whatever

Yee-HAH!

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Yesterday was the biggest and most important non-event of the 2012 presidential campaign (so-far.) Four years ago Mitt Romney won the all-important but meaningless Ames straw poll. Then a few months later Mike Huckleberry won the Iowa caucuses.

But John McCain won the Republican nomination.

Yesterday:

Bachmann received 4823 votes (28.55%)
Ron Paul got robbed! He finished 2nd with 4,671 (27.65%)
Tim Pawlenty 3rd with 2,293 (he’s done)
Rick Santorum 4th
Herman Cain 5th

Rick Perry got 718 write-ins, more than Romney got. Hmmmm.

Apparently not receiving a lot of write-in votes: Sarah Palin.

16,892 total votes.

Clearly the ticket will be Bachmann/Paul.

The media supposedly loves a horserace but every four years they want to declare the winners earlier and earlier and they get really testy when the voters don’t cooperate.

This is what I can’t figure out – why does anyone pay attention to the media?

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BTW – take a look at the picture of Rick Perry at the top of this post. Does that look like a guy who is the least bit worried about looking too extremist?

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