Obama campaigns across the country and Bill Clinton's ratings soar. Coincidence?

It looks like the Obama White House political master plan to tag Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the party's upcoming mid-term election losses while boosting ex-President Clinton's favorable ratings across the country is working like a charm.

Since the unemployment and Afghanistan situations have been taken care of, the incumbent president continues his premature 2012 multi-state campaign swing through the Midwest today, urging any surviving Democrats to vote on Nov. 2.

And a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll reveals that although she represents only one insignificant district in San Francisco, that fading waterfront suburb of Oakland, fully half of all Americans in the other 434 districts have developed some kind of negative feeling about Pelosi, an amazing achievement in this era of Obama post-partisanship.

As the always astute Byron York points out, that gives Pelosi the same negative national rating as....

...black-hat international corporation BP, whose successful discovery of oil in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year turned into a disastrous spill and the country's worst environmental disaster.

Good thing Republican Sarah Palin doesn't want to be House speaker; her positive rating is currently 7% higher than Speaker Pelosi's 23%. Also lucky for Pelosi that evil Newt Gingrich doesn't want his old GOP speaker's gavel back; even his positives are better.

Meanwhile, fellow Democrat Bill Clinton's favorable ratings have soared 10 points in the last year to 55%, way above Obama's fairly stagnant 47%. That 22d Amendment looks like an Obama lifesaver.

The survey of 1,000 adults last week also found the following:

-- Seventy-three percent of Americans disapprove of the job being done by the Democrat-controlled Congress, up from 71% in August, while 20% approve, down from 21%.

-- Sen. Harry Reid's Very Positive rating surged 50% between August and September -- from 2% up to 3%.

-- About six in 10 Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction; almost one in three think things are going right.

-- Despite Obama's best efforts to give him abundant credit for stalling even more administration spending, half of the country doesn't know anything about this John Boehner Republican fellow in the House.

-- Fifty percent of voters are very interested in the Nov. 2 midterm elections today, up from 47% in August.

-- Twenty-seven percent describe themselves as "tea party" supporters, but many more (42%) think the movement is a good thing.

-- From January to September, the proportion of Americans holding Obama responsible for the economic mess nearly doubled, from 17% to 32%. A fading majority (56%) think he inherited the problem, down from 84% early last year.

-- Finally, a plurality of Americans (35%) say the major broadcast networks remain their primary source of TV news.

-- However, nearly a quarter (24%) now list Fox News Channel as their primary source. Sixteen percent claim CNN as their main outlet. MSNBC is the survey's worst cable news network. Only eight Americans admitted they get their TV news from there. Oh, no, wait. That's a whopping 8%, counting Keith Olbermann's family and friend.

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Photos: Tannen Maury / EPA (Obama speaks at the University of Wisconsin, 9-28-10); Nabil K. Mark / MCT (Joe Biden somewhere in a crowd at Penn State University, 9-28-10).

Comments

[morris wise]

There will be a new look for the president when Rahm, Axelrod, Summers and a few others seen as big city Liberals are gone, main stream Americans and Arabs will feel feel more comfortable when they are replaced by church going politicians. Image is everything and the president`s new look as a Bible reading country boy will get more votes than his former one as an urban hustler.

[Barry Hussein]

Nostalgia is always popular with the unwashed masses. Wasn't Clinton "the first black President" before Obozo came along?

[Jedimom]

BIG DAWG. Hill and Bill are the ONLY HOPE for Dems to come out of the wilderness after the SHELLACKING they will get in a month. And I will be heliping with that whompin by voting GOP up and down the ticket to STOP the insanity of the neoprog libs who are the 'New' Dem Base as Donna Brazille described it in 08 (when I said ti would be EPIC FAIL and TOTAL DISASTER! but who listens to we homemakers, after all we are just the BACKBONE of the party-or were, lol-)

So, the more Obama stumbles and fumbles around looking as UNQUALIFIED as he is, the more he helps boost BIg Dawg's approval ratings.

I LOVE IT.

Gee I hope Obama has some Chianti while he eats his own liver over Big Dawgs ratings

BWAAAAHAAAAAAAA!!

Romney 12
Hillary 16

[doubting thomas]

Too bad Obama never brought us the "Change" he promised.
He wasted his mandate brying to become the GOP's BFF.

[ndanielson]

How does it feel, liberal clowns, that your big hero is an impeached former president and serial adulterer??? Got to love "progressive" heroes, huh? Hey, how 'bout a Hillary Clinton/Elliot Spitzer ticket in 2012?

[JohnH]

CNN at 16% plus MSNBC at 8% equals the 24% for Fox. I'm surprised that a total of 48% watch cable news. that seems high. Conventional wisdom says most people don't pay much attention to the news; CNN MSNBC and Fox are pretty hard-news oriented. Some of these results may be because there was a menu of news channels and legacy media to pick from, and some people who don't really watch much news there checked them off. Some may have picked CNN because it is displayed in so many public places.

[Matt]

-- From January to September, the proportion of Americans holding Obama responsible for the economic mess nearly doubled, from 17% to 32%. A fading majority (56%) think he inherited the problem, down from 84% early last year.

How does that even make sense? Why would they even ask that question? We were in the mess before Obama even took office. So 32% of Americans are uniformed.

-- Seventy-three percent of Americans disapprove of the job being done by the Democrat-controlled Congress, up from 71% in August, while 20% approve, down from 21%.

Why do they not ask how the people approve of Republicans in Congress? I'm pretty sure that would be lower than the Democrats'.

Overall these poll numbers are pretty useless as they do not paint a full picture. It's like watching a 3D movie without the glasses, you're not getting the full picture.

[Robert Mudd]

The GOP deserves a lot of credit. They really do. They have successfully perpetrated one of the biggest deceptions in history on an uninformed and incurious citizenry. How? Let us count (some of) the ways:
1) GOP votes unanimously against the 1st Clinton/Gore budget, a budget that not only triggers a huge economic boom but also a budget surplus. GOP still manages to dupe American rubes into believing that only tax cuts stimulate the economy and that raising taxes is evil and anti-American.
2) GOP inherits budget surplus (see #1) and turns it quickly into a huge deficit. GOP is still successful at convincing most in Idiot America that a) they are fiscally conservative & b) tax cuts always INCREASE tax revenue by stimulating economic grown (see #1)
3) GOP puts brakes on 1990's economics boom (see #1) and promotes deregulatory agenda leading to biggest economic mess since G.D.. GOP still manages to persuade most average slobs that government regulation is uniformly evil and anti-American.
4) GOP creates TARP to save economy (see #3). When American public shows they are awake by electing a non-GOP president, GOP later pulls off deception that a) it was Dems that ran economy into the ditch in the first place and b) are responsible for TARP.
5) (Most Impressive) GOP uniformly favors the wealthy, holding hostage the Bush tax cuts for those earning less than $200K. GOP still convinces most of the brain-dead middle class that they share their values and are fighting for their prosperity.
Suggestion for GOP 2012 campaign slogan:
“\"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”