44% of Americans plan to not vote for Obama

[Daedalus]

'A new poll indicates that 44 percent of Americans are planning to vote for someone other than US President Barack Obama in 2012... in what has added to the trend of Obama’s declining approval rating, more and more Americans are not planning to support Obama in 2012. But, it is unclear who they do support.'
Ref: 44% of Americans plan to not vote for Obama (21 April, 2011)

'US President Barack Obama has officially begun his reelection campaign by reaching out to supporters online with a video message calling for a re-commitment to hope and change.'
'Obama cited his last two years as a struggle, where change and reform did not come as quickly as his supporters hoped but he promised far reaching innovative approaches moving forward.'
'We've also known that lasting change wouldn't come quickly or easily. It never does," Obama said. “But as my administration and folks across the country fight to protect the progress we've made… we also need to begin mobilizing for 2012 […].'
Ref: Obama turns attention to 2012 campaign (04 April, 2011)

'Amid rising gas and food prices, political stalemate and more, Americans believe by a hefty margin the United States is moving in the wrong direction.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll indicated those who once felt the US was progressing in the right direction has dropped by seven points to 31 percent while 64 percent said the nation is on the wrong track. This is the greatest number of people who believe the country is going in the wrong direction since US President Barack Obama took office in 2009.'
Ref: Poll: Americans feel US on wrong track (09 March, 2011)

What do people here think? Is the USA going in the right direction and is the Obama Administration providing good leadership? :?

 

[jw4833]

I am going to vote for Obama because I personally feel that he has gotten a lot of flack as well as being responsible for a lot of Bush's mistakes which by the way, America voted for not once, but twice especially when they were very much aware of the damage that he had caused. However, a lot of Americans expected Obama to clean up all of Bush's mistakes overnight, which is impossible. What really pisses me off is the "so called" polls. I have not received any polls or surveys in my mailbox...so who is really handling these polls and where do they actually come from? I remember earlier this year in one of my classes, we studied how researchers processed and conduct their polls with a small group of individuals and then if the polls are not the answers they are looking for, then they will manipulate the numbers to their liking.

This is just my personal opinion...and I do feel that he deserves another chance at being the president.

 

[rs18550]

I'm still reeling from the trump statements. the man has no clue about Roe Vs Wade. And dealing with the Chinese? When I heard what he proposed to do I sat down and my mouth fell open. Basically I think the politicians will make the usual promises to get the people fired up and promise cotton candy but what the masses don't get is they'll end up day after the election with a big old turd in the middle of that cotton candy they were sold and will have to wait another 4 yrs for a fresh batch.

 

[hotguywxw]

I'm voting for Obama, because whatever repub runs is basically going to reverse everything he did........plus second term Obama might be the liberal we all dreamed about mainly because he doesnt have to worry about elections anymore

 

[Behrluvr]

Obama has turned out to be a huge dissapointment. He has not fulfilled a single campaign promise, has brought the country to defacto bankruptcy and has removed all honor and prestige for America on the world stage.
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Furthermore he is now ironically a clone of George Bush. He did not close Guantanamo Bay, did not end the war in Iraq/Afghan. He started a new war in Libya and he essentially dumped two of the US's closest allies - Brittain and Israel. All the while kissing the butts of the world's leading despots. A disaster.
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He is basically a lightweight and is in way over his head. No one in their right mind will support this guy in 2012. The US voter is looking for a plain speaking leader, one who doesn't stumble and stutter, one who has clear and decisive points of view and is not an ass kisser.

 

[hobnoblin]

Unless a better candidate emerges, I'll vote for Obama again......but I won't feel very good about it.

The hospital visitation rights thing was a nice crumb, but I was expecting much more. And I don't credit him for the EVENTUAL end of DADT. Instead of being forceful about it, he did everything possible to avoid getting his fingerprints on it. DADT repeal seems to be happening in spite of him, not because of him.

 

[loveless92]

I'd vote for Obama, people just expected too much to happen too soon. Besides, I think Donald is running against him and good lord, we'll be fucked then.

 

[Behrluvr]

IMO Obama harbors a deep contempt for white America, and inexplicably tries to curry favor with those in the Islamic world who want to kill us. Being a socialist and Ivy League elitist, he is totally detached from mainstream America. He does not speak for us. He speaks for the Martha's Vineyard and Hollywood glitterati.
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It is only a matter of time before Iran lobs a nuclear bomb on Tel Aviv and then we have a nuclear war. Israel is on its own as Obama harbors a contempt for the Jewish state. IMO, Obama is so weak and indecisive that he will be incapable of dealing with a full scale nuclear exchange. He will not be able to deal with that eventuality. Iran needs to be addressed now, not after millions are incinerated.

The mainland Chinese have already fired a test missile off the coast of Los Angeles as a warning to us. It is a warning that if we interfer when they invade Taiwan soon, they will fire a missile into Los Angeles.
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His economic policy re: the deficit and spending are an utter disaster. He has saddled generations yet unborn with an unimaginable debt. And for what? And the spending disaster continues on unabated today What happened to the stimulus money? What did we get for those unimaginable sums spent? Where did it go? Into the pockets of the big banks.
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Gas prices have now doubled since he took office. Instead of sending a signal as Bush did that the US is serious about increasing oil supplies what does he do? He puts a moratorium on Gulf drilling. Then he spends money we don't have to bankroll Brazil's new Carioca field. Is he out of his mind? No he's not. He hates America and has an agenda to bring this country to its economic knees. Brazil is now a middle east class world oil power. There is no lack of private money from oil firms to open up Carioca. Yet since Obama is in the pocket of the oil interests, he spends taxpayer money instead of letting Shell et al risk their funds.

And then there is Obama care. Thank God my organization (among 1000's) got a waiver so I can keep my health care as is. I would like to know the story there of how these groups are getting exemptions. Clearly fishy. But I digress. Any bill which had to be forced through Congress sneakily in the night like that one was with no one understanding it or even reading it is an abomination. Especially one as massive and economically crushing as Obamacare.

What a mess.

 

[ethanhenderson]

I'll vote for Obama. While he hasn't fulfilled all of his promises, he has done a lot of good for the American people. He inherited a disaster and had to make decisions that were politically damaging. People expected him to deliver it all when he can't. When you're running you can promise xyz, but once you actually get in you realize that ending certain policies or starting new ones are harder than it seems.

There is no one on the republican side who I'd be willing for vote for, especially not with the way certain candidates have changed.

 

[taurus2904]

I didn't vote for Obama in 2008, nor did I vote Republican. I thought then, and still do, that he didn't have the experience, the knowledge or the connections to make an effective president. Should Hillary Clinton run again -- since she has hinted at leaving the current administration -- I would vote for her...again. If she doesn't run, I suppose I'll have to take the path of "better the devil you know than the one you don't" and gag all the way home.

Four years ago I'd have never thought it possible for me to be worse off now than I was then. I'm pragmatic enough to know that problems cannot be solved overnight, but four years should be enough time to have at least made some headway.

 

[Stoic]

I'd vote for Obama, people just expected too much to happen too soon. Besides, I think Donald is running against him and good lord, we'll be fucked then.

Eww Donald Trump, for real? :duh:

Isn't he the one who made that bogus Trump University and then had to shut it down later? :rofl:

 

[timrath]

I see. So, Bush was good enough to be re-elected, but Obama is intolerable. O...k... :rolling eyes:

 

[weydowner]

What happened to that Hockey Mom? Seems to have been pushed aside by the Donald.

Still, the US & the World would have been a more interesting place if the Republicans had cheated their way to victory again. Hard to believe that the Nobel people gave him that Peace Prize, without any evidence.

 

[suckindickboy]

I'm not sure if I am going to vote for Obama again. This recession has got to end. We in America need better opportunities. A lot hasn't been fulfilled and I know that he is doing the best with the cards he was dealt, however, "CHANGE" hasn't occurred. I'm torn. Only time will tell.

 

[ritsuka]

A vote for Obama is a vote for four more years of the expansion of endless war and corporate power. It would be the fourth term of George W. Bush. Obama and the democrats had massive amounts of political capital and power in their hands; they chose not to use it in 2008, to squander it on corporatist policy and killing the anti-war movement. Obama promised in his campaign to REPEAL the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy; when he took office, he decided instead that he would let them "naturally expire," except the right wing policies of the democratic party such as this one cost them the election, and then we are supposed to feel sorry for the irresponsible sbags when they make "compromises" to cover up the fact that they are the democrat's tax cuts because they didn't bother to fight when they could actually win. The democrats could have forced the republicans to accept 40 billion dollars in new spending for green jobs, raised taxes on the wealthy and corporations (and closed loopholes, and gone after tax cheats), rejected bailing out wall street criminals, ended the wars, and then we would be in great condition right now.

So, the war criminal sbag democrats such as Obama are 100% responsible for what they've done here; they should be prosecuted, not voted for. If only some people would spend as much time as they do dreaming up new defenses for the crimes of the rich and powerful on spearheading a real (not astroturf) grassroots movement to force a system of true democracy in this country, we could have it. But sure, just point your fingers at the republicans when it is YOU that is voting to have depleted uranium bombs dropped on children's heads in Libya and the middle east. The democrats and republicans are both equally the problem, they both need to be taken down, boycotted, superseded, abolished in favor of direct democracy and a new direction for this rogue nation of ours.

 

[gb2000ie]

How can anyone express an preference between two choices when we only know one of the two choices.

The choice right now is "Obama or Mystery republican guy" - pretending and polling now has any meaning at all is just stupid IMO - this is not a news story but an attempt to sell newspapers the easy way.

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[jaxfltop]

Well I have listened to to many tea party candidates speeches to feel safe voting for any of them. At some point in almost every one of those speeches they get to the point of saying "America it 76% evangelical christian, it is time we organize and take it back" What happens to the rest of us? I sure don't want to have to live under their rule were the super rich don't pay taxes and the super poor work 60 hr weeks to please the corporate overlords. And I don't want to have to more to Mexico. The deficit would not be as bad if most of the corporations had not moved their official home offices (actually just a mailbox) out of the U.S. so they wouldn't have to pay taxes anyway, so don't blame that on the president.

 

[topdog]

How can anyone express an preference between two choices when we only know one of the two choices.... this is not a news story but an attempt to sell newspapers the easy way.

Very true - you can't ask people "Would you vote for Obama or the Republican candidate?" and get a meaningful answer. There are interesting poll questions out there, though. Such as, "Do you think the country is going in the right direction?". If most people answer "No", then that's a big problem for any President.

A vote for Obama is a vote for four more years of the expansion of endless war and corporate power. ... The democrats and republicans are both equally the problem, they both need to be taken down, boycotted, superseded, abolished in favor of direct democracy and a new direction for this rogue nation of ours.

So, if I understand correctly, you are in favor of a constitutional convention that will dissolve the republic, and draw up new foundational doents that abolish the US legislative branch (Senate and House of Reps)? How does a bill become a law, in a pure democracy? Everybody votes? Can everyone offer amendments? Can everyone put forward a bill?

Even if there was a way to make that work, the country is still polarized. The Tea Party folks are also "the people", and have views as strong as yours as how the country is to be run. Then there are the vast majority of folks who are just overwhelmed with their daily lives as it is and have no interest in being personally responsible for voting up or down on each piece of legal minutiae. (They don't even vote every two or four years as it is now!)

So, how would you see this working?

 

[Behrluvr]

Well I have listened to to many tea party candidates speeches to feel safe voting for any of them. At some point in almost every one of those speeches they get to the point of saying "America it 76% evangelical christian, it is time we organize and take it back"

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Absolutely not the platform of the Tea Party. You have been brainwashed by the slanted left wing liberal media. You have never attended a TP function , nor ever listened to a tea party candidtate, as what you claim they say is totally false. The basic TP platform is limited government spending. Getting control of the deficit/ ending deficit spending, and abiding by the US Constitution.

All this other nonsense supposedly attributed to the TP, is just that, horse hockey.

 

[gb2000ie]

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Absolutely not the platform of the Tea Party. You have been brainwashed by the slanted left wing liberal media. You have never attended a TP function , nor ever listened to a tea party candidtate, as what you claim they say is totally false. The basic TP platform is limited government spending. Getting control of the deficit/ ending deficit spending, and abiding by the US Constitution.

All this other nonsense supposedly attributed to the TP, is just that, horse hockey.

Never judge politicians by what they SAY, judge them by what they DO.

What bills have the republicans been putting through the house of representatives, and how are the Tea Partiers voting on those bills?

When you look at that you see lots of talk of deficit busting and tax killing, but lots of action on culture war stuff like the war on abortion.

Also - how many teapartiers spoke out against the renewal of the Bush Tax Cuts? I know of one, Rand Paul, the most honest and logical of the tea partiers. Those are MASSIVE deficit spending - they added TRILLIONS of dollars onto the deficit.

So - yes, the Tea Party CLAIM to be all about the deficit, but when you look at what they DO rather than what they SAY, you get a different story.

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