From NewMax.com: A new poll indicates that most voters, by a 48 percent to 44 percent margin, believe the tea party’s views are closer to their own than President Obama’s are. The question that Rasmussen Reports posed to 1,000 likely voters: “When you think about the major issues facing the country, whose views are closest [...]

From NewsMax.com: This healthcare thing apparently isn’t working out too well politically for President Barack Obama. His approval rating fell to a record low of 44 percent in the latest CBS News Poll. That compares to 49 percent in late March, just before the healthcare reform bill became law. His approval rating was 50 percent [...]

From HotAir.com: Today’s Rasmussen numbers from their daily presidential poll puts Barack Obama into an unusual position.  In just 14 months, he has made himself more unpopular than his predecessor, at least by the measure of strong disapproval.  Obama’s approval index has tied its lowest mark yet at -21: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll [...]

From The Weekly Standard: The same thread runs through Governor Rick Perry’s smashing defeat of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in Tuesday’s gubernatorial primary in Texas, the elections of Republican Governors Bob McDonnell of Virginia and Chris Christie of New Jersey last fall, and the Senate victory of Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts in January. It’s [...]

From National Review Online: On the morning of November 5, 2008, the world rocked to news that the United States had elected Barack Obama to the presidency. That same morning, Mitch Daniels, governor of Indiana, joined the list of those most often mentioned as potentially defeating President Obama in 2012. In what may be a [...]

From TownHall.com: It was only a year ago that liberal elites in Washington were shoveling dirt on conservatism. James Carville was writing boastful books about 40 years of Democrat dominance, boasting in his typical way that he could call “time of death” on the Republican Party. Liberals believed their hype that Barack Obama would be [...]

President Obama only referred to himself 103 times in his first State of Himself Address… er, State of the Union Address, which is lower than the 132 times he referred to himself in a speech he gave just last week in Ohio. From The Heritage Foundation: Heritage members and fans are discussing President Barack Obama’s [...]

From JewishWorldReview.com: What went wrong? A year ago, he was king of the world. Now President Obama’s approval rating, according to CBS, has dropped to 46 percent — and his disapproval rating is the highest ever recorded by Gallup at the beginning of an (elected) president’s second year.A year ago, he was leader of a [...]

From American Thinker: Almost a year has passed since January 20, 2009 — when the waters of the ocean no longer rose and America began to heal from the depredations of Republicans. Barack Obama has been our president for that long, and the people have started to wise up. The light that shines on Barack [...]

From CNSNews.com: A majority of Americans believe an increased government role in health care would lead to more government corruption, while a plurality of Americans think that scientific data supporting man-made global warming is “mostly falsified.” That is what a new poll by Survey USA reveals. The poll also shows that 58 percent of Americans [...]

From The Washington Times: Barack Obama is on his way to being the worst president in U.S. history. This has not dawned on him – yet. But it will soon. Last week, Oprah Winfrey in her “Christmas at the White House” special asked the president what grade he would give himself for his first year [...]

From FOXNews.com: President Obama’s job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point in his term. President Obama’s job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: The decline in Barack Obama’s popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years. Gallup recorded an average daily approval rating of 53 per cent for Mr Obama for the third quarter of the year, a sharp drop from [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: According to the Fox News White House blog: The White House says that the President has decided to give the approximately $1.4 million prize accompanying his Nobel Prize to charity. They have not made a decision on which charity or charities will receive the money. Here’s an idea for the President: [...]

From HumanEvents.com: President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today. By awarding Obama that prize, the Nobel committee has placed Obama in the same category as Al Gore, Jimmy Carter and the late terrorist Yassir Arafat.  We could not agree more. Nobel prizes are won for achievement, supposedly, in the arts, sciences [...]

From PJTV.com: Barack Obama ran an unprecedented Presidential campaign — utilizing the power of design to help secure the seat of the President of the United States of America. However, his iconic emblem, the ever present “O”, holds more power than even Obama knows. Bill Whittle points out the dangers of branding an ideology with [...]

From GOPUSA.com: When Michelle Malkin wrote yesterday of the plans by Barack Obama’s White House to address school children across the nation and get them “thinking about” Obama, it really struck a nerve with our readers. He and his team have no limits on what they will do or say in order to inject socialist [...]

From Rasmussen Reports: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 30% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11 (see trends). Twenty-nine percent (29%) are confident that [...]

From The National Review: After six months in the Oval Office, Pres. Barack Obama has a lower job-approval rating than did ten of the last twelve presidents at the same point in their presidencies. Rasmussen reports that the daily tracking poll of the president’s popular standing shows eleven points negative: Twenty-eight percent “strongly approve” and [...]

Although not directly relevant to the theme of this blog, this is a must-read article that shows the trouble we are in for with a government over concerned with political correctness and a Republican Party that does not even know their own history. From World Net Daily: Drenched in blood of slavery Rodger Hedgecock June [...]