It's sometimes easy, given videos of knuckleheaded tea party protesters, Rush Limbaugh's rants calling for failure and intentionally placed false rumors about illegal concessions to China, to forget that most Americans are hoping for the best, crossing their fingers, and praying this new president and his administration are able to pull off somemiracles.
A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll should make happy campers out of Democrats and cause Republicans to take stock.
Despite
the country's struggling economy and vocal opposition to some of his
policies, President Obama's favorability rating is at an all-time high.
Two-thirds feel hopeful about his leadership and six in 10 approve of
the job he's doing in the White House.
By
comparison, the Republican Party — which resisted Obama's recently
passed stimulus plan and has criticized the spending in his budget —
finds its favorability at an all-time low. It also receives most of the
blame for the current partisanship in Washington and trails the
Democrats by nearly 30 percentage points on the question of which party
could best lead the nation out of recession.
In
the survey, 68 percent have a favorable opinion of the president,
including 47 percent whose opinion is "very positive" — both all-time
highs for Obama in the poll. Moreover, 67 percent say they feel more
hopeful about his leadership and 60 percent approve of his job in the
White House.
Just 26 percent view the Republican Party positively, which is an all-time low for the party. That's compared with 49 percent who have a favorable view of the Democratic Party. (Link)
As I've said before, I'm more than happy for Republicans to continue their current strategies of hypocrisy (now you guys care about spending too much money?), deceit (repeat after me - there is no money for a train from Las Vegas to Los Angeles), idol worship (Sen. McConnell's clear infatuation with Rush Limbaugh), and attack (uh, if the president's policies fail the country is going to be in an even deeper mess - you guys sure you want to keep telling everyone you're OK with that?)
But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see this strategy isn't working out all that well. But, hey, Rush Limbaugh said the GOP needs to be the opposition party. And as the poll indicates, this is exactly the way to ensure they'll get lots of practice.
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