"Winning the Future while Barreling Down the Wrong Track!"
It's been more than a full month now since President Obama rolled out his new
Winning the Future™ catch phrase and the pollsters are eager to find out if anyone is buying it. So how is it going?
The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll released today shows that "the proportion of Americans who believe the country is on the right track dropped 7 points in the past month to 31 percent, and 64 percent think the country is on the wrong track."
The percentage of "right track" respondents is now at the lowest level of Obama's presidency. The Ipsos spokesperson directly attributes the sharp drop to recent turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East and the corresponding increase in the price of gasoline.
Let me suggest that the sharp drop is directly attributable to the President's ineffectual response to that turmoil, since the question is about whether our country is on the right or wrong track, not their opinion of events in some other country and the subsequent market reactions.
Even more troublesome for the President is the fact that the Reuters/Ipsos poll results show that over the past month his job approval rating among independent voters took a sharp dive, to 37 percent from 47 percent. Apparently they aren't buying his WTF schtick, particularly when they hear
comments from the President insisting that more federal education spending is needed along with education reform.