Voters Fed Up with George W. Obama

Voters Are Rejecting the Last Seven Years

From Michael Barone at RealClearPolitics.com:

In this presidential cycle, voters in both parties, to the surprise of the punditocracy, are rejecting experienced political leaders.

They're willfully suspending disbelief in challengers who would have been considered laughable in earlier years.

Polls show more Republicans preferring three candidates who have never held elective office over 14 candidates who have served a combined total of 150 years as governors or in Congress.

Most Democrats are declining to favor a candidate who spent eight years in the White House and the Senate and four as secretary of state...

In polls, Democratic voters have stayed loyal to the president.

But to listen to their candidates (and maybe-candidate Joe Biden) you would think we are in our seventh year of oppression by a right-wing administration.

You don't hear much about the virtues of Obamacare or the Iran deal -- or "choice."

Most Americans hoped the first black president would improve race relations.

Now most Americans believe they have gotten worse.

And so a president who came to office with relatively little experience has managed to tarnish experience, incumbency and institutions: a fundamental transformation indeed.
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Link: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/15/voters_are_rejecting_the_last_seven_years_128091.html

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Voters Turn To Trump Because They Have No Confidence In Government

From the Federalist.com:

As we pick apart the candidates’ performances Wednesday night in the GOP primary debate, at least some Republicans must be wondering why, with so many experienced officeholders in the race, they cannot rid their party of Donald Trump.

The answer has less to do with Trump than with Americans’ trust in government, which has been on a half-century-long slide and has reached its nadir in the Obama administration.

Support for outsider GOP candidates like Trump or Ben Carson, who now polls in second place behind Trump, or the rise of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders among Democrats disillusioned with Hillary Clinton, is less of an endorsement of a particular candidate than a general rejection of—even rage against—the political establishment...

The end of the Bush era brought what many considered to be one major government failure after another—the subprime mortgage crisis, the financial crisis, the great recession.

The government’s failure to prevent these things, combined with responses that hampered a full economic recovery, damaged government credibility among Republicans and Democrats alike.

It’s one of the reasons Obama got elected.

But the failures, and the perception of dishonesty, continued under Obama.

In its efforts to sell the Affordable Care Act, the Obama White House made promises that simply weren’t true—if you like your plan you can keep it, families will save $2,500 a year on premiums, and so on.

Five years later, the healthcare law is still deeply unpopular with most Americans.

On foreign policy, Obama has prized a nuclear deal with Iran above all else, leaving his administration with no viable response to the Syrian civil war, ISIS, the disintegration of Iraq, and the refugee crisis now enveloping Europe.

The Iran deal, like Obamacare, is being rammed through Congress on strict party lines...
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http://thefederalist.com/2015/09/18/voters-turn-to-trump-because-they-have-no-confidence-in-government/