Two New Polls Bring Great News For President Obama and Congressional Democrats

Two polls, one from Gallup that showed President Obama’s approval rating surging with Hispanics, and one from CNN that showed that 68% of Americans believe that Congress isn’t working with President Obama enough, have brought a bounty of good news to Democrats.

The Gallup poll revealed that President Obama’s approval rating with Hispanics has skyrocketed since he announced his executive action on immigration. In the last two weeks, Obama’s approval rating with Hispanics has jumped from 54% to 68%. It is clear that President Obama has completely captured all of the momentum on the immigration. The president has both the high moral ground, and the popular position. He is benefiting from acting where Congress wouldn’t.

A new CNN poll also suggested that the blame Obama strategy isn’t going to be enough now that Republicans control Congress.

According to CNN,

According to the survey, 50 percent of Americans believe the repugican cabal taking control of the House and the Senate next year will be bad for America, and 52 percent expect it to lead to more gridlock. Another 37 percent, however, expect to see no difference in the levels of gridlock in Congress.

But Americans seem to believe the repugican cabal should be the ones to budge.

Sixty-eight percent of Americans polled say the repugican cabal isn’t cooperating enough with President Barack Obama, while 57 percent say it’s Obama who’s not cooperating enough with the repugican cabal.

The situation is going from bad to worse for the repugican cabal. The repugican cabal is trapped between members of their congressional caucuses who are demanding revenge for the president’s action on immigration and the political reality that the what Obama did is popular.

While the American people are demanding that repugicans cooperate more with the president, members of their party want to do nothing. The polling suggests that people elected repugicans, and now they expect Boehner and McConnell to get things done. If repugicans don’t act, the blame Obama strategy isn’t going to work. President Obama isn’t on the ballot in 2016, but the repugican majorities will be.

Both of these polls are good news for Democrats, but they suggest a path forward. The president can continue to take positive steps through popular executive action while Democrats in Congress can go on offense against the repugican agenda.

Democrats are off on the right foot and are putting together a successful strategy. Boehner and McConnell appear to have been blindsided by Democratic aggressiveness. If the repugicans don’t regroup, Democrats could be putting the building blocks in place for a very successful 2016 election.