The Obama (praise His name)'s simple approval is hanging on around 55%. The net approval over at Rasmussen has him down to 2 points--they slimmest margin since his election. I imagine there'll be a bump when the polling after the pirate crisis and a recent stock surge have impact (although stocks are down again this morning).
The force lightning on the top is coming from his ear. Where is the other force lightning coming from? Just kidding. No, I think Obama's approval rating will do a four steps forward three step back dance for the next year.
If conservatives and Republicans want to be dumb enough to believe this shit, fine by me. They'll get their clocks cleaned in 2010 and 2012. Rasmussen's nonelection polls are notorious outliers, largely because Rasmussen is a well known right wing crank who rigs his polls whenever there is no objective measure by which to judge their accuracy.
By essentially making up numbers. Rasmussen is an absurd outlier on this poll. Pollster.com composite ratings, excluding Rasmussen, show 62.2% approval, 28.4% disapproval; Rasmussen shows 55/44 with more strong disapproval than everyone else has approval. Clearly Rasmussen is 1) wording the poll to encourage negative evaluations and 2) pushing people harder than other pollsters to take a firm position. There's no way it's possible that only 1% of the public is either too ill informed to offer an opinion or thinks Obama's done a mediocre job that doesn't deserve either approval or disapproval.
Why is this a surprise? It was so obvious that the voters who thought his shit didn't stink were going to be let down when the clued up to the fact that he's just another politician.
Man up Liet, you wanna ride the Obama train? Cool, but instead of falling back on the tired refrain of a poll having no value just accept distortion is par for the course. No polls have value, everybody knows there are crap, giving this poll attention only serves to validate its result. As for your election predictions, well I'll let you define their accuracy.
It mostly says you haven't read a poll recently. Congressional ratings have been improving steadily since December and Congress now has an approval rating about 10 points higher than Bush's final rating.
FAIL. To the extent that Obama's approval ratings are declining, it's because of a loss of Republican support and Independents moving from undecided to disapproval. His support among Democrats has gone up a bit over time and among Independents his approval has declined marginally with the formerly undecideds moving towards disapproval. It's Republicans where people have been moving from approval to disapproval in large numbers.
Its at 1% right now. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...ministration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll I may have to masturbate.
The bigger point is that poll numbers are so temporary and fragile that it's a wonder anyone even bothers discussing them anymore. Bush's were astronomical yet plunged to record lows. Obama's could easily do the same thing. Either way, the poll results for Congress show that even abysmal ones don't spell the end of the politician or even massive changes in the system.
Liet'll just post some vaginal screed about how the evil right wing push pollers at Rasmussen are wrong and anyone stupid enough to believe them is obviously just a retarded conservative neanderthal.
That or post some "unbiased" poll from CBS/NY Times showing his eminence with an approval rating of 350%.
Your source is obviously biased. Why do they say "+0" instead of "-0" or even just "0"? They are obviously trying to influence people's attitudes.
Less than a half-year into his first term in office, Rasmussen says his net approval is negative. More people strongly disagree with his policies than agree.
