Let’s face it, it’s not every blogger that has the honor of being picked up on the Internet and reported as an “Internationally known blogger”. It takes hard work, dedication, the “it” factor, but most of all, it takes readers like you.
And to think, there were some who foolishly believed that Adam Lambert wouldn’t even chart this week. As I wrote last week when some were celebrating the fact that HDD predicted that Adam would not chart, they are wrong. With appearances on, ‘The View’, Barbara Walters, and various other upcoming appearances, I anticipate Adam continuing to sell well.
One person not selling well is Barack Obama.
Gallup shows the President falling below 50% to 47%. In fact, Obama’s approval for his first year in office is one of the worst in Presidential history according to Gallup.
One person who has seen some improvement in the polls, however, is Sarah Palin. The former Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate, who recently surpassed 1,000,000 in book sales, has seen her popularity rise and has polled within 1 point of Obama.
Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, look what the pollsters just brought in.
A pair of new surveys revealing that Democrat President Obama is still declining and has hit a new low in job approval among Americans just 56 weeks after they elected him with a decided margin.
And — wait for it — Republican Sarah Palin is successfully selling a whole lot more than books out there on the road. Even among those not lining up in 10-degree weather to catch a glimpse of pretty much the only political celebrity the GOP has these days.
First, el jefe. Facing double-digit unemployment, rising spending, deficits and Afghan war casualties plus a keystone but stalled healthcare reform effort that caused a rare Sunday presidential visit to Capitol Hill, Obama recently fell below 50% job approval for the first time.
Then, last week’s deft dance of rhetoric over sending reinforcements to Afghanistan but, on the other foot, bringing them home quickly maybe gave him a brief boost. That, however, collapsed with equal rapidity.
Obama’s new Gallup Poll job approval number is 47%. Last month it was 53%.
Regular Ticket readers will recall how in this space in late November we pointed out that Obama’s closely-watched job approval slide was coinciding with Palin’s little-noticed rise in favorability. And it appeared they might cross somewhere in the 40s.
Well, ex-Sen. Obama, meet ex-Gov. Palin.
The new CNN/Opinion Research Poll shows Palin now at 46% favorable, just one point below her fellow basketball fan.
(The same poll, btw, has bad news for Dick Cheney-haters; the outspoken former VP has climbed out of the 29% basement back up to 39% now. How do you suppose he’s done that without a new book? But that’s another story.)
Not that either Palin or Obama will admit caring about such trivial things as disparate political polls….
…1,071 days before the 2012 election, when Republicans will have the concept of change on their side. Although Obama’s camp is already using the looming Palin pall as a fundraising tool. Never let any potential threat go unmonetized.
The new numbers seem to indicate that despite oft-cited predictions about the dire impact of Palin resigning her Alaska governor’s job last July, a lot of people who don’t live in Alaska (and, come to think of it, most people don’t live in Alaska) don’t seem to care. She wasn’t their governor then and she still isn’t.
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