Rasmussen Has President Obama’s Approval Ratings Rising to 51%

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As Republicans search for new ways to cave on their attempt to take the country hostage and call it winning, Rasmussen (pollster to the Republican stars) has President Obama’s approval rating on the rise at levels not seen since last spring. Obama currently has a 51% approval rating per Thursday’s Presidential tracking poll.

Fifty-one percent of likely voters approve of President Obama’s job performance, while 47% disapprove. This should help spike the GOP over to the bargaining table with a clean debt ceiling offer (sans legislative dirty bombs, please), if the Koch defection wasn’t enough of a push.

It’s not all roses for Obama – but of course, he isn’t ever going to run for office again, whereas Republicans are. Thirty percent strongly approve of the way Obama is performing as president and 37% strongly disapprove. Rasmussen notes, “This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -7.” Or it means that among the extremists in both parties, conservative Republicans currently hate Obama (no news there) more than Democrats or liberals approve. This is a daily tracking poll, so it makes sense that conservatives are especially angry whereas liberals are worried about what Obama will concede.

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/10/heads-gop-rasmussen-president-obamas-approval-ratings-rising-51.html

[kelliekat44]

1. Rass get too many things wrong. i don't trust their polls even if I like the result. nt

[srican69]

3. Rass my ASS ..

I am scared now .. i generally tend to invert the results from (R)ass

[lostincalifornia]

2. Good, I hope the rabid dogs on the yahoo forum have it really stuck to them. We will see how stupid

The American people are in 2014. I suspect many have finally realized just how bat shit crazy the republicans are.

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. Since it's Razz, I'll add a couple of points. Obviously, they suck at polling. nt

[kimbutgar]

5. We all have been waiting for the President to get a spine and stand up to the crazies

My opinion has gone up. I like he is standing strong and calling them out. He will never get the 36% that is hard right but 51% looks good to me. People are paying attention and there is a big magnifying glass on the rethugs. Show those kochroaches for the cretins they are.

[YoungDemCA]

31. The President has always had a spine...

...so I'm not sure what you are referring to here.

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

6. IF Rass says it 51%...

His approval rating is probably closer to 60%!

[ffr]

7. Which can only be a good thing for America.

Hey, GOP!

[Stay calm buddy]

10. That makes no sense

The average of all polls for Obama is 43%.

Rasmussen has him at 51%.

This means that when it comes to job approval, the Rasmussen poll is actually generous to Obama.

What you said would be more consistent with Rasmussen's election performance.

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/obama-job-approval

[hrmjustin]

11. Rasmussen is a republican leaning poster. He is never generous to Obama.

[Stay calm buddy]

12. Does that apply to job approval or election polls?

?

[hrmjustin]

13. Yes. His polls usually undercounted democrats.

[Stay calm buddy]

14. And does he also undercount Democrats in job approval polls?

Or not.

[hrmjustin]

15. He has a history of it. What do you think of the Presidents performance?

[Stay calm buddy]

19. Obamas performance has been excellent in my personal opinion

Does Rasmussen underestimate his approval compared to other pollsters?

[hrmjustin]

20. Yes he does. His only good year with polls was 2008.

He predicted a Bush landslide in 2000. He was off on races in 2010. 2012 he has Romney winning. FOXNEWS uses his polls.

I never take his polls to have any meaning. No matter whether they are good or bad for Obama.

[Stay calm buddy]

22. Do you know what a job approval poll is?

You told me about election match-up polls, not about what I asked (job approval polls).

Does Rasmussen consistenly have Obama with a job approval that is lower than most other pollsters?

[hrmjustin]

24. His is a tracking poll so it goes up and down like every other poll.

Yes I am very aware what it is.

I don't trust his polls.

[Jackpine Radical]

25. The problem with job approval polls in contrast to electoral polls is

that there is no "gold standard" (e.g. an election) against which to validate them. The closest you get to a validity check is concurrent validity--do the various polls agree with each other?

[Stay calm buddy]

28. right. and some are claiming rasmussen and other polls disagree with each other in a certain way

And that certain way is such, they claim, that one should add several points to Rasmussen's approval in order to come up with the "real" approval.
I've been asking for the reasoning behind that claim, in the form of a comparison between Rasmussens job-approval numbers and other pollsters' numbers. No answer yet.

[uppityperson]

17. What do you think about drones?

[d_b]

26. haha

[gopiscrap]

18. Welcome to DU

[stevenleser]

21. You beat me to it, I agree 100% nt

[Recursion]

23. Eh. they had a huge shuffle after 2012

Ras himself got shown the door IIRC

[Downtown Hound]

8. Funny how the freepers are no longer hawking Rasmussen as "the only reliable pollster."

All I've seen over there is the constant trumpeting of the NPR poll that had him at 37%, which is the ONLY poll to show him with a loss at this point.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. Then it must be at 60%

!!

[SunSeeker]

16. K & R

[FarCenter]

27. Gallup has Obama at 42% approve and 52% disapprove.

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

[blue-wave]

29. If Rass Has Him At 51%

then add at least another 10 points. They tilt way to the right.

[JCMach1]

30. I Predicted this Oct. 4

Not shocking though...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3783718