Good News: Only 30% Certain to Vote for Obama

If he uses I, me and mine more than 50 times during his speech tonight, that number most assuredly will plummet further. Kinda almost makes you nostalgic for those glory days of early May, huh, Bammy?

Americans are growing more dissatisfied with President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy and say it will be hard to vote to re-elect him without seeing significant progress over the next year and a half.

By a margin of 61 percent to 37 percent, a Bloomberg National Poll conducted June 17-20 shows Americans say they believe that Obama will have had his chance to make the economy “substantially better” by the end of 2012.

Only 30 percent of respondents said they are certain to vote for the president and 36 percent said they definitely won’t. Among likely independent voters, only 23 percent said they will back his re-election, while 36 percent said they definitely will look for another candidate.

“As far as the economy goes, I don’t see that he has delivered on the change that he promised,” said Sharon Ortiz, a 38-year-old independent voter from Hampton, Virginia, who supported Obama in 2008. “The jobs that he promised -- I haven’t seen it.”

Neither has anyone else, despite the daily fiction peddled by this most incompetent president we've ever had. Still, the media is doing their best to prop this failure up by making weak analogies to Ronald Reagan.

Obama’s ratings dip is reminiscent of former President Ronald Reagan’s early years in office when he was struggling to manage a slowing economy. Seventeen months before Election Day, Reagan’s presidential approval rating was 43 percent -- and he won a second term in a landslide. Obama’s overall job approval stands at 49 percent, with 44 percent disapproving.

One huge difference: Reagan faced an overwhelmingly hostile media while this guy has enjoyed the most glowing press of any president in history. Imagine how low Obama would be if he faced a tenth of the bad press Reagan got? Also, think about where he'd be if the ATF Gunrunner scandal received the proper attention.