May 20, 2009
Pelosi: Approval Numbers in the Range of the Revolting Newt?
Egad.
Nearly half of all Americans — 48 percent — disapprove of how the California Democrat she is handling her job as Speaker of the House in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, while 39 percent approve of her performance.* * *
That puts her approval rating at roughly the levels Newt Gingrich had in his first year as Speaker of the House. (Back in 1995, Gingrich's approval rating was 37 percent; by 1997 — at the same point in his speakership that Pelosi is now — that had dropped to just 25 percent.)
Newt was up against the biggest spin machine of all time - Clinton & Co. in the Whitehouse and a press against his every move.
Theoretically, Pelosi should have those forces working in her favor.
Posted by: George at May 20, 2009 3:29 PMSobering thought:
V.P. Joe Biden is next in line for the presidency.
Disturbing thought:
Speaker Pelosi is next after Biden.
Really, really scary thought . . . guess who is next in line after the Speaker?
Posted by: brassband at May 20, 2009 5:28 PMNo love for Pelosi here. She was all talk and no action about getting the U.S. out of Iraq, so I find it hard to sympathize with her current predicament.
Posted by: rhody at May 22, 2009 10:54 PM