NBC poll: 81% like Obama personally

[jefferson_dem]

NBC poll: 81% like Obama personally
Posted: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:13 PM by Mark Murray
From NBC's Mark Murray

Here's another set of numbers we're releasing from our new NBC/WSJ poll: A combined 81% say they personally like President Obama, including 30% who say they like him but not his policies.

Indeed, in a very long list of Obama's attributes in the poll, his highest scores are on matters of personality, demeanor, and leadership. Here are his highest scores from respondents (on a five-point scale) in descending order:

-- 82% give him a 4 or 5 on his personality and the kind of family man he is
-- 81% give him a 4 or 5 on being easygoing and likeable
-- 69% on being inspirational and exciting
-- 68% on having strong leadership qualities
-- 67% on being compassionate enough to understand average people
-- 65% on being firm and decisive in decision-making
-- 64% on being honest and straightforward
-- 63% on improving America's image around the world
-- 62% on being willing to work with people whose viewpoints are different from his own
-- 60% on achieving his goals
-- 57% on uniting the country
-- 56% on bringing real change to the country
-- 56% on being knowledgeable and experienced enough
-- 55% on representing traditional American values
-- 55% on being a good commander-in-chief
-- 54% on having the ability to handle a crisis
-- 48% on sharing your positions on the issues
-- 47% on changing business as usual in Washington
-- 47% on appointing qualified people to serve in government positions

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/28/1913249.aspx

[Arugula Latte]

1. But ... But ... He's so polarizing!

:rofl:

[Enthusiast]

13. Yup, Rush said.

:rofl: These polls can't be true, Rush said. :rofl:

[DrToast]

2. 48% on sharing your positions on the issues?

How does that reconcile with his approval ratings?

[FrenchieCat]

5. It's still a corporate Wall Street Journal/NBC poll......so

Let's not get carried away.

51% agreeing with his policies must mean if you disagree with one of his policies, than you didn't make the list of approvers.

[Uzybone]

12. Maybe the 48% give him a 4 or 5 on positions

and the others give him a 3.

[Hippo_Tron]

3. So the other 19% accounts for teabaggers and the KKK

[nichomachus]

8. I think there's a lot of overlap between those two groups. n/t

[BelgianMadCow]

11. Last fifth is usually backwash

Stephen Colbert in the face of Bush*

[uponit7771]

4. Like whoa!! It's gonna be hard to turn him into a "socialist" now, his image is burned...

...in the brains of folks

[ej510]

6. The repukes won't give up on that.

They want Snowe and Collins gone.

[nichomachus]

7. WTF are "traditional American values?"

Seriously, I have no idea what that means. I suspect everyone who answered that question would give you a different definition.

Just because people have a viewpoint and express it doesn't mean shit if they don't have something to base it on. Polls like this are just stupid.

[grantcart]

9. k / r

[BelgianMadCow]

10. and personality is the name of the game n/t