A few days ago, I noted that a Reason/Rupe poll had Barack Obama’s approval rating underwater at 47/49, even with a sample that gave Democrats an 11-point edge over Republicans. At the time, I called it an outlier, as Obama had been enjoying relatively strong approval ratings since the election, but Sean Trende warned me in an e-mail that Obama’s approval ratings had begun to turn sour. And today, Reuters makes Sean look like a genius:

Less than two months into his second term, President Barack Obama’s approval rating has dropped and Americans blame him and his fellow Democrats almost as much as his Republican opponents for a fiscal mess.

A Reuters/Ipsos online poll released on Wednesday showed 43 percent of people approve of Obama’s handling of his job, down 7 percentage points from February 19.

Most of that steep drop came in the week to February 26 when it was becoming clear that Washington was going to be unable to put aside partisan differences and agree to halt automatic budget cuts which started last Friday.

Confounding the White House’s efforts to blame Republicans for the cuts, most respondents in the online survey hold both Democrats and Republicans responsible.

Reuters/Ipsos has not released the crosstabs on this poll, but those numbers are hardly cheery for the White House. They put a lot of effort into the last three weeks to campaign against the sequester and to blame Republicans for it. Not only does that not appear to be working, the strategy has damaged Obama’s standing, probably in no small part because of the hysteria showed by Obama and his Cabinet members over cuts that arguably don’t actually cut anything but merely slow spending growth.

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http://hotair.com/archives/2013/03/06/re...al-drops-to-43/

Fat good that does us.

Quote: Weird Tolkienish Figure wrote in post #2

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Fat good that does us.

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Quote: steph wrote in post #3

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Quote: Weird Tolkienish Figure wrote in post #2

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Fat good that does us.

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He could be at zero and would still do whatever the hell he wants. He doesn't care and he doesn't have to care.

He got reelected with low approval ratings. It wasn't all because of vote fraud either.

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Lord, please pull the wool off the eyes of Americans.

Let them see the evil Destroyer in Chief as he really is and as he eagerly wants to be even more so . . . in the service of his dark lord from the pit.

Cause the good, decent, right and righteous to shine brighter than ever

and

the black, vile, ugly and deadly to stink and be more obviously evident than ever, please, Oh, Lord, God Almighty.

Amen.