Gallup: Obama's Approval Numbers Come back down to Earth

[MadBadger]

NOT

Approval 53(+1), Disapproval 40 (-1)

http://www.gallup.com/home.aspx

[jenmito]

1. Darn-you beat me to it-to writing a misleading subject leading to great news!

:D

[goclark]

2. K and R

Happy Valentine's Day! O' Happpy Day! :bounce:

Did the M$M get the message?

All I hear are "their polls" that as far as I know are controlled by ???? Candy? Rush? Fox News? Sarah?

[impik]

12. Oh, you just wait until anyone will see the "devastating video"! OH-OH!

[tridim]

3. 14% Dick probably just kicked his dog.

[Aviation Pro]

4. Dick Cheney kicked his spouse?

Ok, that's bad, don't care.

[MadBadger]

5. What a terrible thing to say

More like his daughter Liz

[WhiteTara]

8. don't you mean Mary?

she is the "different" one after all.

[jefferson_dem]

6. Best showing of the year for Obama in Gallup, y'all...

Last time he was += 53 was December 30.

[WonderGrunion]

11. And the last time he was up by 13 or more points was

November 13th. This is a great turn around for our President.

[impik]

7. But, but, but, THE BASE!!!!

[JDPriestly]

27. Obama turned his base by taking a stronger anti-Republican stance.

We in the base weren't asking for the moon. We just want a man to stand up for what is right. Will he always get it? No. But he has to at least show some backbone.

I still disagree with a lot that Obama is doing, but he is at least standing up for a few good things.

I am one member of the base who was very impressed by Biden's responses yesterday to Cheney's whining.

[Peacetrain]

9. Base here.. cheering...

:)

[smalll]

10. Onwards and Upwards!

I TOTALLY would have been fooled by your headline - but then I saw all the Recs just before I clicked through!

Looks like Scott Brown Week was crest of the high tide for the Repukes. I'm feeling a lot better about the 2010 elections now.

[Goldstein1984]

13. I've never really understood the concept of "base"

It may be that I have no innate loyalty to anything but my principles, so the idea of being part of a base is too foreign for me to appreciate. For example, I believe the U.S. Constitution guarantees all citizens due process; it hardly matters to me whether it is Bush/Cheney or Obama/Biden violating that right by extrajudicial extermination of U.S. citizens suspected of ties to terrorism.

I can understand that both Democratic and Republican candidates will have an automatic and fixed base composed of those who always vote a party ticket during general elections; that seems to be to be a given. It also seems to me that these voters are never a concern, since their vote is always guaranteed. The struggle for votes seems to be about moderates who can swing both ways, and about principle-based voters who require a reason other than party affiliation to support a candidate or even vote a party ticket.

And during the 60s and 70s, when the Democratic Party represented what I believe to be democratic principles, I could surely be counted among the "base" of the Democratic Party. Yet, in 1999, after two decades of Democratic Party drift to the Right and a Neocon platform of free trade, tax cuts and deregulation, I had no hesitation to drop the party and register as nonpartisan. I didn't leave the party, the party left me.

So a "base" composed of other than hardcore followers seems completely coincidental--a accidental overlap of party and principle. I voted for Obama in 2008; that hardly guarantees my vote for candidates he champions in 2010 or for Obama in 2012. If he strays from the principles and policies that earned him my vote in the past, my vote will go elsewhere. Better a vote be "wasted" than taken for granted and abused.

So, it's my contention that the only true base is the party mainstream--those whose vote is guaranteed during general elections based solely on party affiliation--the registered party faithful. The rest are going to base their vote on performance, and they are hardly a part of the base. Their votes may be essential for a victory, but that hardly makes them part of the base.

And I don't know about other states, but membership in the two parties in Alaska is such that no candidate can win with only the mainstream base on their side. They must gain the support of voters registered as nonpartisan and undeclared.

[cliffordu]

24. Well...

It's a very large instrument with four wound steel or nylon strings, and plays the lowest notes in the Symphony Orchestra. OR the really kewell instrument in Jazz Quartets.(See CHARLIE HAYDEN).

[Rosa Luxemburg]

14. I dare you all email the media and tell them the news!

53% whoo hoo!:bounce: :toast:

[goclark]

23. I emailed Chuck Todd

but I'm sure I won't hear back with the Truth, "Mr. Numbers" is such a tool!

[BlueIdaho]

15. Oh Excellent!

I'd love to see our president with a 54 - 56% approval rating. Those numbers could give him the kind of political clout needed to move his agenda forward against the wishes of republicans and recalcitrant democrats!

[DisgustedInMN]

16. Huh?

Is that something like the "we'll get something done when we get 60 votes in the Senate" excuse?

He is the fucking President.

His party controls strong majorities in BOTH houses of Congress.

What difference does a one % change on one opinion snapshot make?

Are you joking?

[BlueIdaho]

36. Nope

But keep looking for the could inside every silver lining - I'm sure it will help you remain... disgusted.

[deacon]

17. The GOP should be at zero. Because thats what they done so far. n/t

[AlbertCat]

18. How very interesting

especially since the "the majority of American People want what the GOP wants" meme was trotted out all day talk-show-Sunday.


Liars.

[Clio the Leo]

19. I wonder what inspired this...

.... seems to have come out of nowhere. I mean NOTHING happened last week. (Not that I'm complaining of course.)

[goclark]

22. That is intereting since Gallup , I thought, was more GOP

than Democratic.

Isn't the Bush family related to the Gallup family?

[Jennicut]

26. Rethugs are being really obstructionist with the political appts. And balking at the

health care summit. If the general public really want bipartisanship as they claim, then the Rethugs are not helping in any way and it was pretty obvious this past week.

[Clio the Leo]

35. Ah, so my statement that "nothing happened" was truer than I realized...

.... he gained in popularity because nothing happened ... because the GOP wouldn't allow it.

[BlueJac]

20. So that must mean it is all good for us unemployed liberals.....

without healthcare. No pony needed!!

[JoePhilly]

21. Do you think that your chances of getting a job are better today, compared to this time last year?

[bluestateguy]

25. The numbers held today too

The new release is out for today.

[goclark]

29. See my post about Chuck Todds response to Gallup in my email

[goclark]

28. Just heard back from Chuck Todd

I told him that he "Cherry Picked" the Polls about the poll numbers for Obama from Gallup, this is his reply....


"who cherry picks polls? where is this coming from? can you name a segment where this happens? not sure there is anyone on air who is MORE careful with what polling they use;"

Maybe the words "on air" is what he thinks work.

Please help me to compose a response for him.... no curse words allowed.....

[MadBadger]

30. What were you initially responding to him doing?

[goclark]

31. Saying Obama's poll numbers were going in the wrong direction

[MadBadger]

32. When did he say this?

[goclark]

33. I heard him say it last week ~ did I miss something?

[MadBadger]

34. The problem is that this upwards swing is very recent.

Its not as much him cherry picking polls, but only talking about them when they fit his narrative. SO while he was probably right about what he said last week, he wont talk about Gallup today because it doesnt fit the narrative

[goclark]

37. See grantcart's post regarding this on Feb. 15

He makes "Lil Chuck's "Numbers" and Charts look real silly.