Our view: Apathy, not Obama’s approval rating, threatens Dems

[LuckyTheDog]

I've decided to start doing unsigned editorials at Wonky News Nerd. This is the first one:

Will President Obama’s lackluster approval rating drag the Democratic Party down to defeat in November? We don’t think so. If the Democrats do badly this fall, it won’t be because Obama made it impossible for them to win. It’ll be because too few people voted.

Obama’s Republican opponents and the media like to make sure everyone knows that Obama’s approval ratings are not great. Of course, they usually fail to point out that Obama’s predicament is not exactly unusual for a president this far into his second term. The other thing they miss is that Obama’s average approval rating of just under 42 percent – as measured by the RealClearPolitics (RCP) poll of polls – makes the president among the more popular officials in Washington right now.

The RCP average approval rating for Congress is just 14 percent. And a Harris poll released Tuesday puts the approval of Congress much lower than that – just 7 percent, down from 8 percent a month earlier. Furthermore, Harris found, “only 18 percent of Americans give a positive rating for the overall job their member of the House of Representatives is doing, down from 22 percent in June.”

MORE HERE: http://wonkynewsnerd.com/voter-apathy-obamas-poll-numbers-top-concern-fall/

[TheNutcracker]

1. The apathy is so great, especially in midterms, especially by his biggest supporters.

In my state anyway.

[Historic NY]

2. K&R...

along with the invasion of debbie downers & trolls here.