publiusvarus wrote:
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 30% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential
Carter wasn't even this bad.
What, at reading?
The breakdown seems to be (RR apparently doesn't like showing the full breakdown, so I can't say if there's a "neutral" vote in the poll they use or what):
30% SA - 19% A - 10% D - 40% SD
which just implies that if you don't like Obama, you
really don't like him. This is something that anyone who follows your posts would have taken as obvious to begin with.
Taking everything into account and using something slightly more reliable than just "difference between people who feel strongly" - specifically, 2 points for "strongly approve", 1 point for "approve", -1 point for "disapprove", and -2 points for "strongly disapprove" - Obama's score would be at -11. (By comparison, Bush's was at or below -11 from sometime in 2006 (or possibly earlier) on. His average over November of last year was -57.)
Also, considering that RR wasn't even
around in the late 70s (it dates back to just before Clinton's second term), there's no way to say what their poll results would have been for Carter.
I suspect we'd see something more like:
14% SA - 17% A - 32% D - 36% SD
giving Carter a score of -59.
This is not necessarily saying that Carter was worse than Bush, that Bush was 5x worse than Obama, or anything of the sort. Mostly it's an example of how people's opinions tend towards the extremes in polls.