President's approval ratings in first signifcant slide. What you can do
This is an urgent appeal to the Daily Kos community. Our president needs your help now! For the first time in his young presidency, President Obama's approval ratings are in a significant and apparently sustained slide per NBC News/Gallup/Rasmussen. NBC News has his approval rating down to 56% from 61%. Gallup has him down to 57%, his lowest ever, and Rasmussen has his presidential approval index today dropping to -2 and his approval rating at just 53%.
Links here:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com
http://www.msnbc.com
http://www.gallup.com
The GOP/Fox slime machine is succeeding. The American people are now buying into the lies that Cantor/Boehner/Mcconnell/Hannity and Limbaugh are spouting. Here's what I suggest:
- This community has many thousands of members who are tremendous writers. Write local letters to the editor supporting your president. Write comments supporting your president in the comments section of news articles on his presidency that you read.
- For those that are on TV, are bloggers, or are contributors to the world of journalism in some form, stand up and fiercely defend your president the way you did during the campaign. Stand up the way you did against Sarah Palin. Your efforts paid off and exposed her for the fraud that she was!! DKOS was in no small part responsible for the collapse of Sarah Palin.
- Talk to your friends, your family. Reassure them of the president's policies and they can reassure their friends and family. For those of you that are comfortable, send out chain e-mails to everyone you know supporting the president.
- If you can afford it, donate to the DNC/Moveon/President Obama's grassroots organization. They can use the money for sure to catch up to the GOP fundraising machine.
- Finally but not at all least, CALL your rep and senator and express your support for the president's policies so that they are not cowed by the GOP machine that is always sure to flood the hill with their viewpoint but isn't necessarily at all a majority viewpoint.
We cannot afford another 1994. I know that DKOS-Research 2000 still show high numbers but other polls do not. We need to stop this slide. Please help!
I know that many in this community are disappointed in the president, but surely you don't want a 1994-style GOP takeover of congress?
Let's help get our president back on track. Are you with me?