What a leftist schmuck!!!   bama's approval rating is as low as 39% and that's the real reason. Lefist tyranny through propaganda.

After a year of seeing President Obama’s approval ratings plummet, the president’s pollster is offering a strikingly candid and pessimistic New Year’s resolution.

Reporters should go the next “year without reporting any public polling data,” Joel Benenson, president and CEO of Benenson Strategy Group, said.

His comments were made to reporter Mike Allen, who published them in his daily “Politico Playbook” morning newsletter on Tuesday.

 Benenson explained that he thinks the polling often reported by news organizations lacks the proper context.

Asked his New Year’s resolution: “Here’s one — with a variation, if mine is too extreme: Go one year without reporting any public polling data.”

“Rationale: Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.”

Benenson offered an alternative if “this is too strict.”

“Go one year without reporting any public polling data that doesn’t provide in an in-depth analysis of the underlying dynamics that are truly shaping the data,” he said.

If reporters actually did forgo reporting on the president’s polling data for a year, the next time the public would hear about Obama’s approval numbers would be after the 2014 midterms.

According to Wall Street Journal/NBC news polling, Obama’s job approval fell from 52 percent at the start of the year to 43 percent today.

'BANISHED' WORDS: SELFIE, TWERKING, OBAMACARE

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- 
Michigan's Lake Superior State University announced its 39th annual list of words "banished" from the language includes "selfie," "twerking" and "hashtag."



The Sault Ste. Marie school said the 2013 List of Words to be Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness, compiled from tens of thousands of nominations from the public, is topped by "selfie," which means a self-portrait taken with a cellphone camera and was dubbed Oxford Dictionary's word of the year.



The list also includes "twerking," the suggestive butt-centric dance popularized by Miley Cyrus; "hashtag," the new name for the pound sign brought about by its use on Twitter; "Mister Mom," a phrase inspired by the 1983 Michael Keaton movie to mean a man who serves as the primary caregiver for his children; and "T-Bone" to refer to a perpendicular auto collision.



The school said it is also banishing the phrase "on steroids" used to describe something being improved, and the suffixes "-ageddon" and "-pocalypse," which are often used to describe events ranging from snowstorms to sales.



Politically themed words the school said people grew tired of in 2013 include "intellectually/morally bankrupt," which is used often by members of one political party to describe the members of the other, and "Obamacare," the nickname for the Affordable Care Act that became the most-used label for the law.



The list indicated people are also sick of hearing about the "adversity" faced by sports stars, as well as the support of their "fan base."