Obama Approval PlummetsFollow

You have to at least admit that fuddy-duddy Carter can't hold a candle to cute-as-a-button Obama in the looks department, though.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html

I wouldn't call that plummeting, rasmussen seems to be a weird sort of poll. Of course it's declining though, I'd have been surprised if it didn't.

OMG OBAMA HATES THE MILITARY!!!!

Well, duh. Everything prior to that was Clinton's fault.

Now you're on the trolly!

OBAMA DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE!!!!111

I'd like to take this opertunity to once again remind our democratic voting populace: "This is all your fault. You've killed us. You stupid bastards, you have destroyed us all. I hope you are happy now."

We now return you to your regularily scheduled thread posting.

Yeah, coming from a bastion of rationality like you, this is quite damning.

It means that Rasmussen consistantly rates Obama 5-7pts lower than the other polls, consistantly rates his disapproval 8-15pts higher than anyone else and so those are the go-to numbers when you're trying to say "Less people approve than who voted for him!". That's not just for this poll; this has been the case for months that Rasmussen has had numbers that aren't even in the neighborhood with anyone else's. As off as they are now, they were even worse a few weeks ago. Rasmussen did a good job of the election polling and I'd look at them as a source to guess who was going to win a race but their opinion polling is obviously off kilter from everyone else's.

Beyond that, it doesn't mean much. Because they obviously didn't go with numbers from Gallup or the AP or ABC or Quinnipiac or Diageo/Hotline or McClatchy or even an aggregate number such as from RCP.

I'm not arguing that his approval numbers are going down but I'm amused at how the right wing runs to Rasmussen for all their approval polling needs.

Possible. Hell, even probable. But, while the usual suspects were trumpeting the one poll saying that 49% ("less than half!") of those polled approved of Obama's handling of the health care debate, they were suspiciously silent of the same poll's findings that Obama still held a 20pt lead over the GOP when people were asked who they trusted more to lead in health care reform. I think his loss of popularity there reflects a weariness with the topic as a whole and people getting sick of it (heh) rather than a massive defection to any other side. People aren't terrified of socialized medicine or losing their doctors or whatever or else they'd be asking the GOP to save them. Instead, they're just sick of the omnipresent coverage.

Edited, Jul 28th 2009 12:34am by Jophiel

Gee, thanks for-- now I have to make up guesses on the distribution between "strongly approve" and "approve" for the 55%, and "strongly disapprove" and "disapprove" for the remaining 45%.

Or you could, you know, find what I specifically was asking for and then I don't have to get simultaneously sarcastic and ****** at you.

For what it's worth, though, that 55% figure gives a range of anywhere from +65 to -35 for the score at that point.

Gekko,



If we learned anything from the W administration we learned this right?

God bless America!