The wishes and desires of valuable voters continue to go in one of President Obama’s ears and out of the other, with the 2010 Congressional elections predicted to bleed Democratic representation. With approximately 60% of polled opinion vehemently against the health reforms being politically force fed to the nation, it is perhaps to be expected that the 2010 Congressional elections and the 2012 presidential election might well be an awakening of souls!
Some believe a president’s approval rating matters a great deal more than many of the political issues that surround the economy. Obama’s ability to mobilize a powerful voting machine could well turn around his popularity and produce rabbits out of the hat in 2012 but such theatrical stunts are disapproved of by Obama’s competitors and supporters alike.
President Obama’s first year in office has consistently been profiled as a baptism by fire, with socialized healthcare predicted to bankrupt the country by murdering off an already ailing economy. Obama’s stubborn, unrelenting refusal to listen to the private sector voting sections of America who hollered and vehemently protested their objections to his public health plan has cost votes and seats, with more radical ‘politicats’ even dramatically calling for taking back congress!
By putting the sick and elderly on waiting lists and wafting disastrous Cap and Trade policies like so much putrid incense, the Democratic administration risks losing everything in the run up to 2012. It is predicted that numbers will gradually sink and slide and even Obama’s Teflon-like coating will begin to absorb the possibility that these policies are not what the nation wants or expects from presidential leadership.
Blaming George W Bush (“Dubyah”) for every little thing that goes wrong is also not going to fool anyone with a modicum of voting intelligence. There comes a time when policies must stand on their own merit and not be assigned to the vagaries of previous administrations every time they fail. As unemployment continues to peak around 10%, the country demands an employment strategy that will fix stuff rather than make sympathetic noises in the ears of voters who do not pay the lion’s share of the nation’s tax bill anyway.
With a downward slide predicted prior to 2012, President Obama is being urged to plaster over some of the cracks appearing in the voting fraternity at an alarming rate. The White House message that conveys the sentiment, ‘You will have this whether you want it or not’, is unlikely to win favor with hard working Americans lacking bottomless pockets who are expected to find more cash to sponsor health care reforms in an already stretched economy.
In the first months of the year, Obama is still being labeled a ‘one trick pony’, faring badly whenever challenged in debate by either Palin or McCain; challenged in the press as a president who changes nothing yet says anything to win, whatever that might be.
Obama’s popularity is all important to victory in 2012 yet might also represent for Democrats their worst hurdle if policy continues to fail in terms of results. An apologetic foreign policy and an inadequate and ineffective policy on terrorism wraps up the reason why many hard working, financially responsible Americans are understandably ticked off at the start of a new decade on Capitol Hill. Obama’s turning a deaf ear to these US voters may well bring a turnaround in the 2010 Congressional elections as well as defeating Obama’s re-election in 2012.
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