That Giant Sucking Sound You Hear Is The Poll Numbers

Good news for us, bad news for Obama:

Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide now oppose the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That's the highest level of opposition yet measured and includes 44% who are Strongly Opposed.

Just 43% now favor the proposal, including 24% who Strongly Favor it.

The biggest thing here is that those who strongly oppose it now outnumber those who support it to any degree.  If it comes to passion, grass roots movement, and anything that requires inspiration, the momentum is completely opposite of where Obama needs it to be.

Some additional analysis of the trends from Hot Air:

President Obama plans a media blitz this weekend to make his case — again – for ObamaCare.  So far, his media blitzes appear to have had the opposite reaction as he hopes.  Obama hasn't exactly been shy about his media appearances, as Jim Geraghty notes from a USA Today report:

Obama will have done 124 print, broadcast and radio interviews by day's end on Sunday, according to a tally by Martha Joynt Kumar, a political scientist at Towson University in Maryland. George W. Bush did 40 and Bill Clinton did 46 by the same point in their presidencies.

At times, it seems that the only strategy employed by this administration is to do the opposite of whatever the previous administration did.  That's certainly true of media appearances, but the returns have been diminishing for some time.  Even while blanketing the media, Obama has dropped under 50% approval on a wide range of issues, including health care and the economy, two traditional Democratic strengths.

Part of the reason why this strategy has not been effective is because Obama has had nothing new to say in months.  He appears convinced that the answer to voter rejection of his arguments is to offer them repeatedly and in increasing loudness and anger.  His latest foray into prime time should have educated him to the folly of this approach.

But that's not stopping him from going on FIVE separate weekend shows this weekend to make yet another pitch for ObamaKennedyDeathCare.  If the track record holds true, and if he doesn't unveil anything new, this should drive the approval ratings down even further.  We'll find out next week.

Fox News adds another interesting poll question: will you be better off under ObamaKennedyDeathCare, or not?  The answer speaks for itself:

Only twenty-two percent of registered voters believe Obamacare would make them better off. Even among Democrats, that number is only at thirty-six percent.

Of course, there's still that little notion of being politically suicide to consider.  We can't rest until this thing is truly dead, and that simply isn't the case yet.

There's my two cents.