The Tables Are Starting to Turn

As I predicted last week, it appears that the tables are starting to turn, Barack Obama's approval rating has now fallen to 37%.

You had to scroll way down to find it but an interesting story today from the Associated Press stating that Barack Obama's approval rating in the wake of the the partial government shut down is now at 37%. You heard almost nothing about it in the news media today.

I am of the belief that many of the media outlets don't know how bias they actually are. You see, a majority of news here in Canada and the United States comes from only a small handful of news sources... "The Wire" as it were. If the wire services (which are few to begin with) aren't reporting certain stories, you won't hear it on a majority of major media outlets.

I give you an example of that happening with today's story about Obama's low approval rating.

Below, is an excerpt (you can read the whole story here) from the story as it appeard on AP's Website:

Most Americans disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job, the poll suggests, with 53 percent unhappy with his performance and 37 percent approving of it. Congress is scraping rock bottom, with a ghastly approval rating of 5 percent.

Indeed, anyone making headlines in the dispute has earned poor marks for his or her trouble, whether it's Democrat Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, or Republican John Boehner, the House speaker, both with a favorability rating of 18 percent.

Now I present you with the wire version of the same story... in it's entirety:

WASHINGTON - A new poll says Americans are holding Republicans primarily responsible for the partial government shutdown.
    
The Associated Press-GfK survey finds plenty of disdain to go around as people size up the federal impasse. Most now disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is handling his job. And Congress' approval rating is a perilous 5 per cent.

    Overall, Republicans are taking the bigger hit in public opinion. In the poll, 63 per cent say Republicans deserve a lot of the blame. About half say Obama or the Democrats in Congress are largely responsible.

    The poll finds that the tea party is a significant influence among Republicans as well as a source of division. Forty-one per cent of Republicans identified themselves as tea party supporters and they want Republican leaders in Congress to stand firm.

 It should be noted that Obama's 37% approval rating is now lower than George W. Bush's approval rating at the same duration in his presidency. And at it's worst, Bush's approval rating was 33% and that was with the media crapping on him all the time. Unfortunately, the media is still in Obama's corner. Hopefully they wake up soon and start doing some actual reporting... like a CBS reporter did yesterday.