Obama is an Unpopular President- Approval Numbers Similar to Bush in 2000

This is how the Democrats tell the story.

After George W Bush won election in 2000, the Democrats pointed over and over again to his low polling numbers, claiming that this was evidence that the country was divided. Byron York, writing in the National Review, characterized his approval rating as "wandering listlessly in the low 50 percent range." Democrats viewed these low approval ratings as a weakness, a sign that the President was unpopular and did not have a mandate to lead. Indeed, throughout his whole Presidency and in elections after they were able to point to those approval ratings numbers as evidence that Bush was never a legitimate President.

Bush's approval rating sunk from a high of 62% soon after he was elected to a meager 53% only months after he was elected. It was a sign of how unpopular he was.

Obama's approval rating has sunk from a high of 63% soon after he was elected to a meager 53% only months after he was elected. It is a sign of how unpopular he is.

Will Democrats tell this story? Or will they continue to portray Obama as a God in the media? I suspect that they will continue to insist that Obama is popular, even if his approval numbers drop to Jimmy Carter or Nancy Pelosi levels. When you have a minority group (extreme liberal Democrats are a minority group) ruling a nation, it usually is unpopular, and yet these groups typically prop up their regime with shows and displays. It is only a matter of time until Obama's popularity hits 43% and a statue of him is put up. As his popularity drifts lower, displays of power and worship will become more prominent.

Democrats need to be defeated in 2010 and 2012. Bush might not have been the smartest President, and you may disagree with some of his policy decisions, but at least he did not try to change America into a thug-ruled dictatorship.