Now CNN confirms with their own poll showing Barack Obama has lost 7 percentage points in the last month alone, dropping him to 48 percent approval rating with 50 percent of Americans disapproving of the job he is doing.
"The poll indicates that the biggest drop in approval comes from non college educated white voters," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "That's one indication among many that Obama's growing unpopularity may be more related to unemployment and the poor economy."
In fact, six in ten Americans questioned say they favor Obama's plan to send 30,000 more troops to that country. Two-thirds also support his plan to start removing U.S. forces from Afghanistan in the summer of 2011 - although the poll indicates most Americans think that announcing that timetable in advance was a bad idea, and they are skeptical whether conditions in Afghanistan in 2011 will actually allow the U.S. to start drawing down troop levels.
Support for Obama's policies does not translate into support for the war itself; a majority still say they oppose U.S. action in that country.
"That may currently be a reflection on George W. Bush rather than Obama," says Holland. "Two-thirds say they blame the former president, not Obama, for the problems the U.S. currently faces in Afghanistan."
But the poll suggests the conflict is eventually going to become Mr. Obama's War, with 54 percent saying they will blame Obama, not Bush, for any problems the U.S. faces in Afghanistan in 2011.
The poll was conducted Wednesday and Thursday, after the president spelled out his new Afghanistan policy in a prime time address Tuesday night at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.
In case some are tempted to blame his Afghanistan surge announcement for his tanking in the polls, there is also this:
Several late-November polls have indicated Obama's approval rating this low even before his speech at West Point. Weekly averages of national polls showed Obama's approval consistently at 52 or 53 percent from mid-October through mid-November.
"But in the week before Thanksgiving, his average approval rating slipped to 49 percent - solid evidence that something was going on before Obama announced his Afghan policy," adds Holland.
The 5 page PDF of the actually questions, with the trending numbers, can be found here.
Page #2, question #1, shows his approval and disapproval numbers but it also shows the figures from all previous months going back to February of 2009, where Obama held a 76 percent approval rating, making this a 28 percent drop in approval since he has taken office.
This isn't about any one specific issue, this is about Obama's job performance on the whole and the American public is not approving of his decisions, nor his judgment.
Question #2 shows his disapproval rating stems from Obama being too liberal.
2. (IF DISAPPROVE) Do you disapprove because you think his policies and actions since he became president have been too liberal, or because you think his policies and actions have not been liberal enough?
Dec. 2-3 2009
Approve (from Question 1) 48%
Disapprove, too liberal 40%
Disapprove, not liberal enough 8%
Disapprove, unsure on Question 2 2%
No opinion 2%
The rest of the questions specifically deal with the Afghanistan troop surge Obama just announced and Afghanistan on the whole, but neglects to ask about the other issues to which has been bleeding his support dry since February.
Buyer's remorse is one thing, but under normal circumstances you only lose your initial investment when you discover you bought a lemon.
In this case, after the bailouts,the stimulus package and the spending bills, our projected deficit has quadrupled under Obama's agenda and they are still trying to push even more on the American people with Obamacare, including the public option, and talk of a new stimulus bill (but they want to rename it and not call it a stimulus bill.)
This means buyer's remorse in this case, isn't just losing your initial investment, but putting your children, your grandchildren and your great grandchildren into massive debt that they may never recover from.
This is a lemon that is going to taste sour for decades to come.
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