During MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday, Chuck Todd asserted that the American people are “fatigued” from President Obama and his continuous policy failures.
The panel specifically addressed a recent CNN/ORC poll that shows former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would beat Obama 53% to 44% in the popular vote were the 2012 election held today.
The poll also finds that, if a hypothetical 2016 presidential race were held in present day, former secretary of State Hillary Clinton would beet Romney 55% to 42% in the popular vote.
“This is a country that’s fatigued from this president,” Chuck Todd said, responding to the poll.
“The more foreign policy problems that pop up, you see in the poll numbers a lack of confidence in him,” the MSNBC host continued. “And so, to me, those polls are more reflective of Obama the person and the president. It says nothing about the state of, for instance, either party.”
Oddly enough, MSNBC panelist Donny Deutsch on Friday’s “Morning Joe” suggested that Americans are fatigued from Hillary Clinton. So, it appears Hillary-Obama fatigue has become the latest phenomenon, at least as far as MSNBC is concerned
Host Joe Scarborough also brought up the fact that both President Obama and Republican lawmakers have poor job approval ratings in states where Senate races are taking place ahead of the midterm elections this fall.
“The middle of the electorate right now is turned off by both parties,” Chuck Todd explained. “The middle of the electorate might not show up [for the midterm elections]. I think we’re seeing some signs of that: Very low primary turnouts, low turnouts in some of the last couple of years in very off-year elections. So, I think they don’t believe either party can deliver whatever change they’re promising.”
Todd also complained that campaigns from both Democrats and Republicans for the midterm elections don’t offer any “unique and different” ideas on the economy or health care.
“It’s the same blather that we’ve heard over the last three or four cycles,” he added.
Despite the MSNBC host’s comments, recent polling shows that a majority of Americans believe it important to put Republicans in charge of Congress to offset President Obama.
