Contributed by: filbert Thursday, April 09 2009 @ 09:54 AM CST
Pew Research Center[*1] :
Partisan Gap in Obama Job Approval Widest in Modern Era
For all of his hopes about bipartisanship, Barack Obama has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades. The 61-point partisan gap in opinions about Obama’s job performance is the result of a combination of high Democratic ratings for the president — 88% job approval among Democrats — and relatively low approval ratings among Republicans (27%).
Yep. The age of partisanship is over. After all, Dear Leader announced it himself, a while ago, with this correct and complete explanation[*2] of why his policies were both intellectually superior and economically correct:
I won.
Heckofa job, Barry.
Via Belmont Club[*3] .