Day158 Thursday 02/03/11

ran 1.0 miles

• Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Index rating shows that 26% of American voters strongly approve of Obama’s performance as president while 41% strongly disapprove, giving Barack Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –15. Barack Obama’s Presidential Index rating is dipping back down to the consistency it had held up until a month ago.

• Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of Obama’s performance and 53% disapprove. These numbers also reflect a dip in his popularity, which had risen a month ago and seem to be lowering back down to the past year’s levels, week by week.

• Rasmussen Reports finds that 58% of likely voters at least somewhat favor repeal of the health care law, including 47% who strongly favor repeal. Just 38% oppose repeal and only 29% strongly oppose it.

• Rasmussen Reports shows that only 32% of likely U.S. voters say the country is heading in the right direction.

In an article by Dick Morris, “Obamacare: D.O.A.”, Obama’s presidential shortcomings are poignantly listed and put into context of what they mean for 2012. Considering a health care bill that is continuously sloping into landslide disapproval, stimulus packages that have achieved little for the price they had cost, and a general inability to point out anything positive done for this country for any significant majority of people in America, the next presidential election appears to be more and more of a challenge as each day passes for Barack Obama to become a two-term president.

1,661.8 miles to go.