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louis c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 07:00 PM
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Obama at plus 13 in Gallup poll
Edited on Sun Feb-14-10 07:02 PM by louis c
President Obama registered a 53% approval in today's gallup tracking poll, 40% disapprove. That's a gap of plus 13 points.

I've said this before. Obama won a landslide electoral victory with a 7 point margin. 13 would be immense.

If he pivot's his strategy to moving to his base, by eliminating these God awful, move right compromises, he'd find that his support would deepen and become more energized. Unions, students, minorities, women, gays, people who need a break and need a leader. Come home, Barack, there's a light in the window. "Dance with who brung ya". Move left, young man, move left.

Link:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 07:01 PM
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1. such polls are meaningless in the positive (such as yours) unless you are comparing two candidates
and even then they are still useless more than 2 years from the re-election.
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louis c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 07:05 PM
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2. First of all, it's not my poll, it's Gallup's
Edited on Sun Feb-14-10 07:06 PM by louis c
and second, it does send a message that this president is likable. If you read the rest of my post, you'll notice that I want him to tack left and support the big issues he ran on. the point being that the support is there, but the enthusiasm is not. And third of all, this coming mid-term is going to be a referendum of this president, and his approval rating does matter.
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 07:15 PM
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6. actually don't think it will be a referendum on Obama - it will come down to a lot of individual
races.
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louis c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 08:13 PM
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12. Every mid-term is a referendum on the incumbent president
Edited on Sun Feb-14-10 08:15 PM by louis c
I expect that to be more so this year, not less
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lamp_shade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 07:13 PM
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4. Oh... it's YOU.
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 08:42 PM
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13. Which would be relevent except on Thursday Todd reported that
Obama was facing declining numbers by Gallup.

Since they are reported on it is useful to get the correct information out.
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louis c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-15-10 08:28 PM
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15. My point, exactly
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 07:12 PM
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3. It would appear he's doing fine
That 40% is never going to approve of a Democrat. He's got the approval of the swing vote, it would appear he needs to stay right where he is and just continue to push his message out past the noise on both the right and left. When people get done doing their taxes, this noise is all going to be much less effective. And when they pass health care reform and people can see the truth of that in their own pocketbook, his numbers will be the highest since FDR.
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DCBob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 07:14 PM
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5. That is amazing considering the situation..
Obama goes for the gold! Cheers!
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CBR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 07:15 PM
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7. Great news!!! nt
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 07:20 PM
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8. OxyRush, Beck and Hannity will use the Faux and Rasmussen poll results.



They always do. Trouble is, Faux and Rasmussen are always 10 or 15 points lower than most of the others.

You don't suppose they have a RW agenda do you? :rofl:

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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 08:01 PM
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11. Actually, Rasmussen has Obama at 47% approval, at least today.
Even Rasmussen can't make the # really that different from Gallup's although they use the ridiculous Approval index rating (strongly approve versus strongly disapprove).
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Windy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 07:49 PM
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9. Polling means nothing. NOONE answers anonymous calls anymore except the elderly
and the uneducated. Polls should not be a gauge for anything!!!!
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frazzled Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 07:57 PM
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10. You must not ever have done any political phone banking ...
I've done a lot of it. And I can assure you, people do answer the phone. (Though often I pray they won't, and I can just leave a message.) I did some for the Massachusetts election recently, and even though it was 5 pm in MA on a Monday afternoon, quite a few people did answer their phones. They were younger and older, male and female, polite and really nasty. But I can assure you it is not just senior citizens answering their phones.
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Windy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-14-10 10:04 PM
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14. Um, only through the entire primary and general election cycle
and those are the people who answered the phone for the most part. I had more non answers than answers, even among likely dems on my phonebank lists.
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louis c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-16-10 11:59 AM
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16. Kick, the numbers remain the same for day 3
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-16-10 12:12 PM
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17. Obama is much more popular than the democratic party. Immensely more popular than the GOP
and at a time where we have nearly 10% unemployment 53% approval and 40% disapproval is a miracle. There is still a lot of good will for Obama and most people understand he inherited a big mess. Once the economy is beginning to create jobs in the recovery his approval will go sky high and if the US economy is humming in '12 Obama will win in a landslide.
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