The GOP Myth of Obama's Falling Poll Numbers

via Eric Boehlert

The Gallup Daily Polling debunks the myth of Obama's falling poll numbers.

At the end of last August, in the middle of the Town Hall Tea Party hysteria, the President's numbers stood at 51/42.

Today?

51/42.

This is after he supposedly rammed health care down America's throat, turned us into a socialized country, squandered America's respect by bowing (several times), gave away our nuclear capability and made us less safe, and coddled the Underwear Bomber by Mirandizing him, increased taxes by passing a tax decrease, and tried to take away our guns (??). And that's just off the top of my head.

After all that, he's still in the same place.

The media want to play the "both sides do it" meme. If the Republicans are lying - making up stories out of thin air or whole cloth - then Democrats must be doing it too. The evidence isn't showing that, but the media is in such full-on CYA mode that they feel the need to create balance where none exists, or a counter-narrative where no valid one is available.

They've done it for the last decade - from Valerie Plame to WMD to death panels. Now they're doing it with a false narrative of falling electoral confidence.

As the almost always disagreeable Mark Halperin points out:

It is too early to assess the ultimate measure of victory: whether the President's actions have been prudent and beneficial, domestically and internationally. But by Election Day 2010, Obama will have soundly achieved many of his chief campaign promises while running a highly competent, scandal-free government. Not bad for a guy whose opponents (in both parties) for the White House suggested that he was too green in national life to know how to do the job — and whose presidency began in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis that demanded urgent attention and commanded much of his focus.

Cesca

The Republican Party doesn't get that President Obama, while being iconic, is also supremely qualified to be president -- perhaps not in terms of having a lengthy political resume, but chiefly in terms of having the temperament, education and intelligence for the job to a degree rarely seen in the presidency.