Obama Approval Thread October 10/16/12-1/20/13

[afleitch]

Gallup Obama Approval:

Approve:  49, u

Disapprove:  45, u

Head to head (Likely Voters)

Romney:  51, +1

Obama:  45, -2

LOL gallup is F****D up right now

Silver noted a large GOP bias in Gallup.  However, PPP has a D bias and has Romney up by 4.

That's comparing a tracker poll to a field poll. The PPP poll would have given the two candidates a tie but for the lopsided Romney sample on Sunday.

If you compare Gallup to other conventional tracker polls it's a bit...askew...no?

[afleitch]

That's comparing a tracker poll to a field poll. The PPP poll would have given the two candidates a tie but for the lopsided Romney sample on Sunday.

If you compare Gallup to other conventional tracker polls it's a bit...askew...no?

There were two other contemporaneous polls that showed the same number.  I tend to think it is Romney, +2 to +6.

So you think it's Romney '+2 to +6' based on Gallup puting him up 6, Rasmussen putting him up 1, IBD/TIPP putting him down by 2 and Ipsos/Reuters putting him down by 3? (With YouGov putting him down by 1 which is a firm I know you say you don't like and for gigles, RAND putting him down 6)

So technically based on the most recent polls you only believe Gallup (as Rasmussen only has Romney up by 1 as of yesterday) is that correct?