New Times/CBS Poll: High gas prices, Afghanistan a mess sending Obama�s approval numbers tumbling below 50%

This must�ve been a very hard story for the NY Times writers to write.  I could just see the tears in their eyes as droplets fall on their keyboards.    

NY Times repots despite improving job growth and an extended Republican primary fight dividing his would-be opponents, President Obama is heading into the general election season on treacherous political ground, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

At a time of rising gas prices, heightened talk of war with Iran and setbacks in Afghanistan, Mr. Obama�s approval rating dropped substantially in recent weeks, the poll found, with 41 percent of respondents expressing approval of the job he is doing and 47 percent saying they disapprove � a dangerous position for any incumbent seeking re-election.

The poll provides a statistical reminder of how unsettled and unpredictable this year�s political landscape remains. Just one month ago, Mr. Obama reached a critical benchmark by winning approval from 50 percent of Times/CBS News poll respondents, his re-election prospects lifting along with confidence that the nation was finally emerging from the aftermath of the Great Recession.

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President Obama is extremely vulnerable because when you consider every metric of his presidency, he�s done a very poor job as president.  But, more important than that, this is a president that has no problem shredding the Constitution in order to establish a Leftist Utopia. 

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