WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s approval rating has taken a hit in a new poll that shows a growing frustration with the president’s handling of the economy.
The Washington Post/ABC poll found that 46 percent of people approve of the Obama’s job performance, while 50 percent disapprove. That’s a reversal of the president’s ratings just last month, when his approval hit 50 percent for the first time in that survey in nearly a year.
The quick drop coincides with a spike in gas prices and an increase in criticism from Obama’s Republican rivals on the issue, even as the economy has shown noticeable signs of growth.
But the poll underscored how rising gas prices — always a political peril for presidents — threaten to keep Obama from reaping the rewards of the good economic news. Obama’s top rivals, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, were running roughly even with the president.
The poll found 65 percent of those surveyed disapproved of Obama’s handling of gas prices, even though just half of those surveyed said they believed there was anything the administration could do to bring down the cost of gas.
Finally this news has hit the BDN, but wow talk about soft peddling the issue. If this had been a Republican president the article would have been much more negative.
You think?
Supply and demand. Increase supply by drilling off the Gulf Coast, on the continental shelf, or in Alaska or by stop taking so many carbon-emitting vacations.
The prices have nothing to do with this. It has everything to do with fears commodity traders have that war will break out in the Middle East. We export more than we import now, and demand has dropped because of the rising prices.
And with some Obama appointees from Wall street running the white house we can expect this trend to continue. I’ll remind everyone that when he took office gas was $1.78 per gallon.
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/03/is-obama-to-blame-for-4-gasoline/
You might learn something.