You know it’s bad when WaPo/ABC shows Obama tumbling and GOP support rising

Some would say that Obama could be convicted of murdering the Pope and embezzling a trillion dollars of tax payer money, and a Washington Post/ABC poll would likely find great support for President Obama.  So, when a WaPo/ABC poll shows support for Obama and Democrats tanking, it’s big news.

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air breaks down the surprising Washington Post/ABC poll:

Three months ago, the WaPo/ABC sample had a nine-point Democratic advantage in the partisan split, with a D/R/I of 34/25/38.  Today’s poll has a D/R/I among registered voters of 31/26/37, with a five-point advantage still being too high and both Democrats and Republicans slightly underrepresented.  Both Rasmussen and Gallup this year have the actual partisan gap at a single point.

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Obama’s 46/52 is the first underwater rating of his term in office from the Post/ABC poll, which shows readers what creative sampling can do.  He’s been underwater on the economy for most of the year, though, with a term-low 41/57 at the moment.  His numbers haven’t changed much on the deficit or on Iraq, despite his Oval Office speech on the latter.  He gets a 49/45 for following the Bush playbook, from 48/42 in July — hardly an improvement.

In April, WaPo/ABC showed that 39% believed that Obama’s economic policies were making the economy better, while 26% said they were making it worse, and 32% believed they had no effect. In the most recent poll, 30% said they were making the economy better, 33% making it worse, and 36% believe that Obama’s economic policies and hundreds of billions of dollars spent have had no effect on the economy.

In addition to showing failing support for President Obama and his economic policies, there was bad news for Democrats with the mid-term elections less than two months away.

• 40% of registered voters say they have move confidence in Democrats and 38% say they have more confidence in Republicans.  Three months ago Democrats had a 12 point margin. (note, this polls was heavily weighted in favor of registered Democrats)
• 47% of voters said they would vote for the Republican in their Congressional district, and 45% said Democrat.  However, when looking at those that said they were likely to vote, the numbers favored Republicans 53%/40%.
• 55%/39% voters say they would rather have Republicans in control to keep Obama in check, rather than Democrats in charge of Congress to support the President’s agenda — this gap is double what it was three months ago.

The American people clearly no longer believe in the President’s message of hope and change.   After 20 months of hearing the President blame George Bush and the Republicans for everything that goes wrong, even though Democrats have controlled Congress for four years and they had a near unprecedented super majority for Obama’s first year in office, voters are no longer buying what President Obama is selling.  Promise after promise has been broken, from campaign promises about being the most transparent administration ever to not raising taxes on those making less than $200,000 to unemployment not going above 8% if his union-endorsed spending stimulus bill was passed.

People are growing weary of the Campaigner in Chief who relies on the Teleprompter in Chief , and who has failed to become the Commander in Chief and lead this country in a time of great need.