Despite A Week Of Fox News Bashing, Obama’s Approval Rating Hits 3-Year High

It may be time to send Fox News a thank you card for helping President Obama to achieve his highest level of approval since December of 2012. Gallup’s latest numbers show Obama with a 53% approval rating, and 44% disapproval (as of 3/25/2016). Of course, it wasn’t for lack of trying to smear the President with anything they could dig up. Apparently they just underestimated the American people’s appreciation for a leader who engages in positive forward movement, rather than the sort of juvenile antics that are being showcased by Republicans in Congress and on the campaign trail.

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The past week was full of the sort of poll-shifting events that often shape the public’s opinion of national leaders. And true to form, Fox News worked rigorously to turn those events into negative fodder for their Obama-phobic audience. They began by brazenly politicizing the tragic terrorist attacks in Brussels. Various Fox News characters desperately tried to blame Obama for the bombing. They asserted that his strategy for combating ISIS was so weak that it encouraged more attacks. However, the truth is that Obama’s counter-terrorism efforts have seriously degraded the capabilities of the enemy, including killing more than half of their top commanders. ISIS has lost 40% of the territory it once held in Iraq. Many experts regard resorting to terrorism as a sign of weakness by combatants who are unable to make military gains.

Then Fox criticized Obama for continuing his historic visit to Cuba. They would have preferred that he tucked his tail between his legs and scurried back to D.C., as if there were anything he could do there that he couldn’t do on the road. Why they think that it would be a good thing for the President to exhibit fear and panic in the wake of terrorist act (whose purpose is to incite fear and panic) is a mystery. And they never criticized presidents Bush or Reagan who both remained on vacation following similar incidents.

There has also been a dust up in Washington concerning the vacancy on the Supreme Court caused by Antonin Scalia’s sudden death. Obama nominated Merrick Garland, a widely admired moderate judge who has been praised by Republicans in the past. But now they are clinging to an imaginary constitutional clause prohibiting presidents from doing anything in the last year of their term. The rhetoric on Capital Hill has been decidedly hostile toward Obama simply because he is complying with his constitutional obligations. GOP senators have accused him of trying to “shove” his nominee “down their throats,” and attempting to “pack the court.” All of which is nonsense. He is only asking them to do their jobs as stipulated by law.

Finally, the Republican primary has been a non-stop Obama-bashing extravaganza. For the past eight months every GOP candidate has bitterly castigated the President as inept, dangerous, arrogant, feckless, and even treasonous. They simultaneously claim that he has done more than any other president to harm America, but also that he has done nothing for his entire term. Likewise, he has shown brilliant cunning in his plots to destroy the nation while also being an utter fool who was never up to the job. That kind of schizophrenic contradiction really has be worked at.

So it must be frustrating for the GOP to observe that while all of these heavy-handed and baseless condemnations were being flung at Obama, the American people were warming up to him more than at any other time than in the past three years. By significant majorities they approve of his opening diplomatic relations with Cuba. They want the Senate to confirm Judge Garland for the Supreme Court. And their opinions of the Republican contenders for the GOP nomination range from embarrassment to disgust (even among Republicans).

President Obama must be doing something right. And Fox News is demonstrating that they have far less influence on the electorate than like to pretend. They have yet to report these latest presidential approval numbers from Gallup, even though they gleefully announce any polling down tick with a flashy “ALERT” accompanied by whooshes and gongs to make sure their dimwitted viewers are paying attention.

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So the Fox audience will remain blissfully ignorant of the fact that Obama is riding high in the polls, and will continue to wallow in the fantasy that Ted Cruz or Donald Trump are going to trample the Democratic candidate in the fall. Just like they did in 2012 when they were lied to by Fox into believing that Mitt Romney was going to win by landslide. That’ worked out pretty well, didn’t it?

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6 thoughts on “Despite A Week Of Fox News Bashing, Obama’s Approval Rating Hits 3-Year High

  1. I sure will be looking forward to the apologies that you will be presenting in the fall,when Hillary gets SPANKED!!

    • Sorry even a lot of people who other wise would not vote for Hillary would rather have a sane intelligent president than anything that the two front runners represent.

    • I kept seeing such posts along the same lines regarding a Mitt Rmoney landslide back in 2012.

      All the way down to election day.

      But yeah, can’t fault you, you’re simply doing as a proud member of the party of Trump would do. Trump himself could make a post like that (and he actually has done so many times already on twitter), and no one would know the difference.

    • I actually love reading comments like yours because it reminds me of past elections when I read nearly the same comment with different names. If you really want to know who’s going to win, check out Nate Silver on 538 dot com. He’s nailed the last several elections like no one else.

  2. Au contraire, Pierre. Obama’s ISIS policies are so robust that they have forced the group to change their strategy from military back to terrorism. It’s amazing what a policy that is actually thought out in long term can accomplish. Too bad Bush created ISIS with his shoot from the hip stupidity and too bad all three Republican candidates have sworn to go back to it.

    • Their “military” strategy was never going to hold up in the long term. Not against a more advanced and powerful army against them to say nothing about the armies of almost all the other countries in the region that they’ve pissed off.

      Al Qaeda themselves could have told them that trying to take and hold territory in order to form a caliphate simply makes them a fixed and visible target that can be assaulted through conventional warfare, not to mention the difficulty of trying to hold on to such territories in light of these reasons.

      Terrorism and guerilla tactics on the other hand doesn’t present a fixed target or location to attack or defend, and is more difficult to track and be visible since it usually involves small cells that are blended in with societies. That’s why such tactics have proven so effective against America before.

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