http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/19/have-new-controversies-hurt-obama-has-gop-overreacted/?hpt=hp_t1

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According to the survey, which was conducted Friday and Saturday, 53% of Americans say they approve of the job the president is doing, with 45% saying they disapprove. The president's approval rating was at 51% in CNN's last poll, which was conducted in early April.

The CNN poll is in-line with Gallup, which also indicated a very slight rise in Obama's approval rating over the same time period. And Gallup's daily tracking poll also indicated a slight upward movement of Obama's approval rating over the past week. But as with the CNN poll, it was within that survey's sampling error.

But more than six in 10 say that the president's statements about the IRS scandal are completely or mostly true, with 35% not agreeing with Obama's characterizations. And 55% say that IRS acted on its own, with 37% saying that White House ordered the IRS to target tea party and other conservative groups.

The 37% saying the White House ordered the IRS to do what it did must not care for proof because there is none. 

It seems to me that scandals don't have the sticking power that they used to. Some guys lose their job, the one side gets to go "see how evil these guys are?" but in the end nothing substantive is impacted. Like when the Justice Department was caught firing attorneys for purely political reasons back in the Bush years.

I wonder if it's due to lowered standards

Lowered standards or just plan unbalanced standards.  I mean shit.  While the IRS and AP stories are a big deal... it's not like those are even the biggest scandals that happened under Obama. 

The IRS and AP stories are big deals and suck, but really Obama seems to be more Warren Harding and less Richard Nixon in those cases.

Now you want to talk about scandals?  How about the dozens of children killed in drone strikes against terrorists... where the definiton of terroist = Arab dude who's 18 or older and standing in the "wrong" Neighberhood.

Racial Profiling with a Hellfire missle... might not be something to get the Republicans to march about... but still.

I mean hell, those people could just be relatives of the terrorists.  Or delivery men or pretty much anybody.

Nobody really seems to give a shit though.

Nevermind Libya, which was a clear violation of the War Powers act... which Candidate Obama pretty specifically laid out.  Just about everyone was silent on that one too... except for my former representative  Dennis Kucinich.  Damn I miss him.

If you were to swap Obama's D with an R.  I bet history would view what scandals he had and how bad they were quite a bit differently.

If it doesn't involve sex or isn't a ridiculously big boo-boo like no WMDs in Iraq, it's not a big deal.

I mean you have the usual set of people on the right who think Obama is the anti-christ no matter what, but they don't speak for everyone, they tend to just make a lot of noise.

Plenty of people in the middle who aren't freaked out by the fact that he's black find him likable, while obviously on the left he has strong support.

Lots of folkes don't give a crap about the Tea Party either, even on the right they alienate a lot of people.

Not sure what you're attempting to prove here?

53% of Americans also believe the Sun revolves around the Earth.

nailed it.

Obama can't be beat. It's as simple as that.

and really... this is less seeming like a dragon and more like a Hydra.

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/05/20/justice-department-names-reporter-co-conspirator-in-leak-case/

I mean... jesus, when you have MSNBC defending a Fox News reporter you know shit's got real. (and yet will people care? Hard to say when politics have become more like sports.)

Well, the Republicans have to find something, they have been trying to go after this man for so long, sooner or later one fake scandal will stick.

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