When I read about this poll, I tried thinking what this poll is telling President Obama. I believe what it’s telling him is (a) he’d better start putting pro-growth policies in place and (b) his stimulus bill is an outright failure. Here’s the polling I’m refering to:

Forty-five percent (45%) of U.S. voters now give President Obama poor marks for his handling of the economy, the highest level of disapproval this year.

When I first read it, I reread it because I wanted to make sure it said 45 percent of those polled said President Obama’s handling of the economy was poor, not 45 percent said it was poor or fair. Let’s refer to this group as the evidence-based group. Let’s refer to this group as the Hopey-Changey Group:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 39% believe the president is doing a good or excellent job on the economy following the announcement last week that unemployment in October rose to 10.2 percent, the highest level in 26 years.

How can unemployment have by almost 3 points, how can 3,000,000 jobs be lost and these people poll say that President Obama is doing a good or excellent job? The only thing that jumps to mind is that most of the people in this group are hardcore Obama supporters who think he can’t do wrong no matter what the proof tells them.

If things don’t change dramatically in the next 11 months, Democrats will get tied to the disastrous economy, which is justified. It’s justified because they voted for President Obama’s economic blueprint. It’s justified because they voted for Cap and Tax. It’s justified because they’ve just voted for a health care bill that will hurt the economy with $729,000,000,000 in new taxes.

Let’s remember that Ms. Pelosi became Speaker in January, 2007. America isn’t better off now than they were in 2007. It’s far worse off now.

This poll, coupled with the TEA parties, carries a message: We screwed up in 2006 and 2008. It’s time we fixed it.

The people aren’t yet saying that Republicans should be rewarded because they were less disastrous than the Democrats. Still, we’re heading in a pro-GOP direction, mostly because they’re viewed as more sane than the Democrats and also because Republicans aren’t ignoring the people. They’re actually listening to them. That’s why this will be a very good year for the GOP.

State legislatures will flip back to GOP control. The GOP will experience a net gain in governor seats. More importantly, they’ll win back alot of House seats, possibly enough to make John Boehner the Speaker. Democrats will lose at least 3 seats in the Senate, starting with Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Blanche Lincoln and possibly the Burris and Gillibrand seats.

President Obama should treat this poll as a warning shot from the American people that they aren’t happy with his economic policies. It’s their way of saying that they’re tired of rising unemployment, unprecedented deficits and almost-nonexistent economic growth. If President Obama continues his stay-the-course path, he’ll earn the distrust of more and more independents.

If Democrats think that they won’t pay a price for their arrogance, they’ll find out that they’re wrong. Poor policies, lousy results, a liberal sprinkling of arrogance and the Democrats’ unwillingness to listen will take a toll on the Democrats, a toll which will be blatantly obvious on Election Night, 2010.

Technorati: Economy, President Obama, Unemployment, Tax Increases, cap And Tax, Health Care, Speaker Pelosi, Chris Dodd, Harry Reid, Roland Burris, Blanche Lincoln, Democrats, Polling, TEA Parties, John Boehner, Republicans, Election 2010

Cross-posted at California Conservative