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Originally Posted by kane
For the record, I'm not a liberal. I'm more of a libertarian. I didn't vote for Obama the first time, I won't vote for him this time. I will vote for whichever third party candidate I feel has the best chance of getting the most votes, which likely will not be much of a choice because most of them stand very little chance of getting many votes at all.
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I never saw you as being libertarian. What I've noticed is that you bash Conservatives pretty hard and I began to notice you didn't do that with Liberals. The reason this always stands out to me is because you are clearly a very intelligent and articulate person that I wouldn't expect to be very biased towards either side. Doesn't surprise me that you identify as a Libertarian.
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Still, I was simply pointing out one thing that could be causing his rating to fall. I'm sure there are many. I still feel if you don't think having four candidates out on the road spending millions of dollars and having 145 different debates while taking every chance they get to bash Obama has not caused at least a ripple effect you are fooling yourself.
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His ratings have been pretty poor for a long time. They are certainly not at their lowest right now. So of course many factors influence ratings at once, but I personally don't believe that conservatives bashing a liberal have much to do with it. His problems did not start with these recent polls. He has been weak and had a low approval rating for a long time now.
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That effect may only be 1 or 2 points, but I think it is part of it. Add in high gas prices, add in the unemployment rate not dropping, add in that we are still in Afghanistan, add in that all the shit with Iran, add in the problems with Syria, add in the prices of housing still falling, add in that many people are still losing their houses, and add in anything I have forgotten and you get a nice mix of reasons why his ratings are dropping. . . but I'm pretty confident having four candidates out on the road reminding everyone they talk to of these problems has had some effect.
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Sure, its many things at once that affect his popularity.
Personally, i haven't watched the news in maybe over a year. Not CNN, FOX, MSNBC, BBC... not anything. Its too depressing. Only on rare occasion do i open msnbc.com or cnn.com just to skim the headlines and make sure a nuke didn't get dropped somewhere... I just felt like being an ass ;)