Obama's 26% Strong Approval

[Lumpy 1]

I saw Obama on TV today the poor fellow is looking pooped...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15 (see trends).

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports™

 

[rightwinger]

Wow...thats super interesting!

Too bad Obama only needs 20% approval to beat the crap out of whatever stiff the GOP picks to run

 

[Big Fitz]

I remember someone predicting that P-BO would never go below 30% approval because no president before has. I think he's working hard towards that. Regardless, after 2010, he's going to have no political power left with approval ratings dropping so low.

 

[rightwinger]

I remember someone predicting that P-BO would never go below 30% approval because no president before has. I think he's working hard towards that. Regardless, after 2010, he's going to have no political power left with approval ratings dropping so low.

Yes no political power when you lead the party that controls Congress and the White House, are the leader of the free world and have an opposition party that has approval ratings in the 20s

 

[Big Fitz]

I remember someone predicting that P-BO would never go below 30% approval because no president before has. I think he's working hard towards that. Regardless, after 2010, he's going to have no political power left with approval ratings dropping so low.

Yes no political power when you lead the party that controls Congress and the White House, are the leader of the free world and have an opposition party that has approval ratings in the 20s

When he loses Congress... which is all but inevitable now, he gets nothing done. Happened to Bill Clinton too.

 

[Immanuel]

I remember someone predicting that P-BO would never go below 30% approval because no president before has. I think he's working hard towards that. Regardless, after 2010, he's going to have no political power left with approval ratings dropping so low.

Yes no political power when you lead the party that controls Congress and the White House, are the leader of the free world and have an opposition party that has approval ratings in the 20s

When he loses Congress... which is all but inevitable now, he gets nothing done. Happened to Bill Clinton too.

What makes you think he will lose Congress?

What if God is punishing this country and we are doomed to 70 years of Democratic Control aka The Deepest Pits of Hell?

Immie

 

[Big Fitz]

Yes no political power when you lead the party that controls Congress and the White House, are the leader of the free world and have an opposition party that has approval ratings in the 20s

When he loses Congress... which is all but inevitable now, he gets nothing done. Happened to Bill Clinton too.

What makes you think he will lose Congress?

What if God is punishing this country and we are doomed to 70 years of Democratic Control aka The Deepest Pits of Hell?

Immie

Country won't survive 70 years of socialist/fascist rule. It will fall apart into civil war in 10 or less.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The fascist rule (corporate state partnership) was during the Bush years. The outsourcing of the Iraqi war to Halliburton is a primary, but certainly not the only, example. The fascists in my party were defeated last year. And the American electorate is certainly not going to vote them in next year based on what the blow hards have not done: bunch of pathetic tea whiners. Good golly, Miss Holly.

Fitz, I told you were ignorant, and you proved it above yet again.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

I love watching 0bama's poll numbers sink. I have to admit right now it is meaningless. As noted above, his party controls congress. I do think Pelosi and Reid are getting tired of him though. He doesn't seem to do much except talk, and that is getting old. The two of them are doing all the leading, and poor Harry Reid is leading with his chin.

So for next year, will his opinions really matter that much, really? is congress going to distance themselves from him except as a false face for their needs?

As of right now, I don't see these numbers meaning anything substantive. People who masturbate to them are wasting their time.

 

[Polk]

I remember someone predicting that P-BO would never go below 30% approval because no president before has. I think he's working hard towards that. Regardless, after 2010, he's going to have no political power left with approval ratings dropping so low.

No president has gone below 30 percent? Bush spend most of his last two years in office under 30 percent.

 

[Rinata]

Wow...thats super interesting!

Too bad Obama only needs 20% approval to beat the crap out of whatever stiff the GOP picks to run

 

[Big Fitz]

The fascist rule (corporate state partnership) was during the Bush years.

Apparently you know the name of what fascism is, but cannot see it when your god is the one in charge of it.

What do you consider the attempted nationalization of Health Care, the takeover of AIG and Chrysler and GM? Capitalism and free market economics at it's finest???

The outsourcing of the Iraqi war to Halliburton is a primary, but certainly not the only, example.

You may wanna wipe your face, you frothed a lot there. There are 3 companies in the world that can do Halliburton's job. One refused to participate, the other bid too high. Halliburton won the contract fair and square. But that's not the point... is it?

The fascists in my party were defeated last year.

No, they took over and are now running congress and the executive branch.

And the American electorate is certainly not going to vote them in next year based on what the blow hards have not done: bunch of pathetic tea whiners.

Yes. Please. Keep telling yourself that. Listen to your own prophet's words: "It's the Economy, Stupid."

In that case, you're party's fucked cause you already purged the GOP moderates in many cases responsible for bringing it about. Not enough of them, but many. And who's the incumbent party now? That's right... you guys.

Fitz, I told you were ignorant, and you proved it above yet again.

Can't teach an old dog new tricks, but you can beat him repeatedly with a newspaper, eh?

 

[Polk]

I remember someone predicting that P-BO would never go below 30% approval because no president before has. I think he's working hard towards that. Regardless, after 2010, he's going to have no political power left with approval ratings dropping so low.

Yes no political power when you lead the party that controls Congress and the White House, are the leader of the free world and have an opposition party that has approval ratings in the 20s

When he loses Congress... which is all but inevitable now, he gets nothing done. Happened to Bill Clinton too.

All but inevitable?

The Democrats have a 257-178 majority in the House right now. Therefore, losing control of the House would mean a swing of 40 seats. The odds of that happening are very slim (most forecasters project a swing in the low-20s, I project a swing in the high-20s, the prices in trading markets suggest a predicted swing of a little under 30).

They also have a 58-40 majority in the Senate. Since they'll still have the White House in either case, the Republicans need 51 seats. That means they need to pick up at least ten and possibly eleven (if his vote would be the deciding factor, it's highly likely Lieberman would caucus with the Republicans). If we use Nate Silver's list of seats most likely to change hands as a baseline for which seats are most in danger, the GOP would need to win Delaware, Nevada, Connecticut, Colorado, Arkansas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, New York, Hawaii, and possibly Wisconsin. Note, all of those are while successfully defending open seats in Missouri, Ohio, New Hampshire, Kentucky, and Florida. Even in a Republican wave year, that's highly unlikely.

 

[Lumpy 1]

Wow...thats super interesting!

Too bad Obama only needs 20% approval to beat the crap out of whatever stiff the GOP picks to run

I guess you really needed a laugh..

 

[Article 15]

I remember someone predicting that P-BO would never go below 30% approval because no president before has. I think he's working hard towards that. Regardless, after 2010, he's going to have no political power left with approval ratings dropping so low.

No president has gone below 30 percent? Bush spend most of his last two years in office under 30 percent.

And that's using pre-Obama approval rating standards. If you use post-Obama rating standards Boooooosh left office with a "strong approval" rating in the teens.

 

[Polk]

The fascist rule (corporate state partnership) was during the Bush years.

Apparently you know the name of what fascism is, but cannot see it when your god is the one in charge of it.

What do you consider the attempted nationalization of Health Care, the takeover of AIG and Chrysler and GM? Capitalism and free market economics at it's finest???

Since no one is attempting to nationalize healthcare, that's a pretty dumb comment to make. Also, there is a difference between the government seizing control of healthy companies and the government giving aid to struggling firms (AIG because of the risk to the broader economy, GM (a move I'm opposed to in theory) because of other nations protecting the domestic firms, and the government didn't take a stake in Chrysler, so don't really see where you're getting that).

The outsourcing of the Iraqi war to Halliburton is a primary, but certainly not the only, example.

You may wanna wipe your face, you frothed a lot there. There are 3 companies in the world that can do Halliburton's job. One refused to participate, the other bid too high. Halliburton won the contract fair and square. But that's not the point... is it?

Bid too high? Halliburton was awarded a no-bid contract.

 

[Polk]

I remember someone predicting that P-BO would never go below 30% approval because no president before has. I think he's working hard towards that. Regardless, after 2010, he's going to have no political power left with approval ratings dropping so low.

No president has gone below 30 percent? Bush spend most of his last two years in office under 30 percent.

And that's using pre-Obama approval rating standards. If you use post-Obama rating standards Boooooosh left office with a "strong approval" rating in the teens.

13 in the final poll, to be exact.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Fitz et al continue to stagger along in strangeville. One, Obama is much stronger in the eyes of the public than is the GOP. Two, the health bill will pass. Three, the Dems will retain control of Congress and the Presidency. Fourth, the economy will be in full recovery before 1 Jan 2012. The GOP will be wandering in the political wilderness for a long, long time if we don't jettison the reactionary wing nuts on the loony fringe of the party.

 

[Lumpy 1]

Fitz et al continue to stagger along in strangeville. One, Obama is much stronger in the eyes of the public than is the GOP. Two, the health bill will pass. Three, the Dems will retain control of Congress and the Presidency. Fourth, the economy will be in full recovery before 1 Jan 2012. The GOP will be wandering in the political wilderness for a long, long time if we don't jettison the reactionary wing nuts on the loony fringe of the party.

You must be sitting on your porch in Strangeville, whiskey in one hand and a rather small twinky in the other............just kidding with you...

 

[Polk]

Fitz et al continue to stagger along in strangeville. One, Obama is much stronger in the eyes of the public than is the GOP. Two, the health bill will pass. Three, the Dems will retain control of Congress and the Presidency. Fourth, the economy will be in full recovery before 1 Jan 2012. The GOP will be wandering in the political wilderness for a long, long time if we don't jettison the reactionary wing nuts on the loony fringe of the party.

I don't think it matters that Obama polls better than the GOP. The midterms will be about how people feel about the general direction, and if that's negative, it's going to be a bad night for Democrats. However, the Democrats will retain both houses.