Cichawooda:

“Judging by approval ratings, although down from a peak of 70% approval earlier this year to “just” 58% today the approval ratings are going back up. Yes Obama and his polisies are favored by the majority of Americans and especialy the young. I know that a lot of you have been saying “The young don’t know anything.” – but they are the future and most of you will not be around to see if you were right or not.”

Actually, I am fairly young myself, believe it or not. It is just that I’ve gone from being a centrist on most issues to being center-right over the past few years. Young people also tend to become more conservative as they age, as they are burdened by kids and not as carefree as before.

As Winston Churchill said:

“Anybody who is not a liberal at 20 has no heart. Anybody who is not a conservative at 40 has no brain.”

Like I’ve said, Obama is popular (or relatively popular) now because it is early in his tenure, the media are spellbound and because he will always have a core constituency (the Jeremiah Wright-esque nutcases). It is not really a reflection of how great he is. I mean, bloody hell, even ol’ George managed a high approval rating (in the 70′s, IIRC) post 9/11.

Your 58% doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny, either – especially given that’s the number who thought that undue politics was involved in the Nobel Peace Prize. His approval rating, as of October 11, is closer to 49%, with more people viciously against him than rabidly for him, according to Rasmussen Reports (not exactly a far-right poll).

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll