In the past, Barack Obama’s absence from the White House has helped raise his approval ratings slightly. But his latest extended vacation hasn’t helped his approval ratings at all. The way things are going, his next vacation, which begins on Wednesday and ends on Monday, won’t do much to lift his ratings out of the cellar either. Maybe it would help if Obama extended his vacation through September?
From Hot Air blog:
If Barack Obama hoped to gain some breathing room with his vacation, or perhaps even pick up some sympathetic vibe for eulogizing Ted Kennedy on Friday, Rasmussen’s latest poll shows that nothing has changed in the direction of his approval ratings. With one of the three days in Rasmussen’s presidential tracking poll after the wake, Obama has hit his highest level of strong disapproval yet, at 42%. The “passion index” has now hit -10 — not the worst of his term thus far, but certainly not good.
