Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Buyer's Remorse?

I am not going to link the articles I have been reading for the past couple days. I don't recall or have most of them saved. I will offer some of the sentiment and underlying issues that are present in the themes of some of the articles though. :)

You can see by the poll number reported by various pollsters that Obama is still popular as a person, but his policies are failing to get serious acclaim from the public. I will vouch that Obama is probably a decent guy with some shady connections and ideas. Take away his horrible ideas, policies, and relationships, he would be an alright guy to hang out with.

His policies, though, are falling fast among the fine citizens of the US of A. Most polls are diving and swinging away from favoring them. Health Care has found itself taking the brunt of the animosity. His rhetoric is not sticking because he simply cannot talk about this in simplistic fashion. His policy agenda on Health Care is not sticking because people are thinking this is too much, too fast.

All that is general, but that doesn't address that issue of buyer's remorse. Polls are showing that Democrats are standing firm on Obama in general. He has lost some support, but not a lot. That is expected. The base will stick with him until the ship officially sinks and then and only then will they jump ship like a pack of rats.

The source of buyer's remorse seems to be coming from the independents and moderate republicans who voted for him. His numbers are tanking among these demographics. Losing support across the board. I am wondering if people are feeling buyer's remorse with regards to their vote. Again, this is not to say the McCain was going to be significantly better or worse.

I am going to begin talking to these people who were the middle of the road types and see how they feel now. They had no clue what they were voting for except campaign promises and rhetoric.

So as the kinks in the armor are starting to show through, the people who were shaky on their vote for Obama in the first place might be regretting that decision now.

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