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President Obama's chicken-pox popularity
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Feb 01, 2010 10:30pm |
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| Category | Editorial |
| Author | Ed Goeas |
| News Date | Tuesday, February 2, 2010 04:30:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | President Obama recently became one of the fastest presidents in history to drop below a majority approval rating, doing so in his 10th month on the job. Polling data strongly indicate that this sharp decline in approval is because of policy, not personality. Specifically, voters are unhappy with policies that involve unprecedented spending without a lot of economic progress.
Disappointment - not "hope" or "change" - is the emotion now associated with Mr. Obama. Meanwhile, Americans are finding reassurance, and even optimism, in budget discipline and fiscal honesty - even if that honesty is brutal.
Right now, the government executives who are giving the fiscal honesty and discipline that constituents crave are most of the nation's Republican governors. They are being honest about the hard choices that must be made to turn around state economies and budgets. Their actions follow their words: tough budget cuts coupled with genuine sympathy (favoring tax cuts over tax increases) for struggling taxpayers. Republican governors' constituents appreciate the candor from their leadership and their state executives being straight with them. |
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