The Official Obama 2.0 Approval Ratings Thread

[Franzl]

Do re-elected Presidents get a honeymoon in approval ratings?

[Franzl]

Does anyone have any explanation for his sudden popularity?

[Franzl]

I think it would be better for the Democratic brand if it was, to be honest. Now people are actually genuinely dissatisfied with big government overreach and inefficiency.

No. They're dissatisfied with what they've been brainwashed to believe is "government overreach and inefficiency".

[Franzl]

There really is a massive double standard in approvals for Democrats and Republicans. It's amazing. The Republican crazies can almost be willing to bankrupt the country....the Democrats botched a website and people with health insurance that isn't worth the paper it's printed on can't keep it.....and now the parties are tied again.

That makes perfect sense, America.

[Franzl]

Another interesting little tidbit: Respondents in the Illinois poll said they voted for Obama by 9. Actually he won the state by 17. So they greatly oversampled Republicans.

The "who did you vote for in the last election" question absolutely sucks in a poll.

According to all polling done in the later part of 1974, for example, McGovern actually "won" in 1972 if you asked folks who they voted for...

Bandit likely thinks he did.