Started at the bottom now, he’s here?
A new Washington Post-ABC poll shows that President Barack Obama’s approval rating is at an all-time low. The president is now at a 41% approval rating, down from 46% for the first three months of the year
In addition to revealing that only 34% approve of his handling of the Ukraine crisis, only 42% of people polled approve of his handling of the economy. Considering that the United States is having the slowest economic recovery from a crash since the Great Depression, it’s no surprise that the poll is also showing that Democrats are going to have a hard time holding control of the senate in November. A majority of responders claimed that they would prefer the congress be controlled by Republicans.
The GOP is expected to take control of the House of Representatives, but if they take the Senate as well, any further items on the president’s agenda for the remainder of his term could be dead on arrival. Not that he’s been all that successful getting anything other than Obamacare passed anyway, but Obama would be the very definition of a lame duck if his party can’t hold on to the senate majority.
Still, there is a very real danger that if the Democrats hold the Senate, the president could begin appointing partisan judges into positions of power with extremely radical left-wing views. It seems to be a commonly accepted notion that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will retire before Obama leaves office so that he can appoint another left-leaning justice. Republicans will have to keep that in mind when constructing their strategy for taking the senate majority this fall.
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