Marist Poll: Obama approval increasing, destroys all Republicans

[Tender Branson]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/01/13/106788/poll-obama-rebounding-with-voters.html

http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/misc/usapolls/US110106/McClatchy/McClatchy_Marist%20Poll_National%20Survey_January%202011.pdf

[Landslide Lyndon]

Way too optimistic. Obama's numbers are undoubtedly on the upswing but I have a hard time believing that he beats Huckabee and Romney by double digits while the economy is still in such a sluggish state.

[pbrower2a]

Way too optimistic. Obama's numbers are undoubtedly on the upswing but I have a hard time believing that he beats Huckabee and Romney by double digits while the economy is still in such a sluggish state.

Neither Huckabee nor Romney has been offering any economic solutions.

[Alcon]

Way too optimistic. Obama's numbers are undoubtedly on the upswing but I have a hard time believing that he beats Huckabee and Romney by double digits while the economy is still in such a sluggish state.

Neither Huckabee nor Romney has been offering any economic solutions.

As if the average voter would know the difference in January 2011.

[opebo]

Way too optimistic. Obama's numbers are undoubtedly on the upswing but I have a hard time believing that he beats Huckabee and Romney by double digits while the economy is still in such a sluggish state.

Neither Huckabee nor Romney has been offering any economic solutions.

As if the average voter would know the difference in January 2011.

I honestly believe there is some dim understanding among more and more voters that in the new era of impoverishment, right-wing voting is dangerous to ones life and health.

[pbrower2a]

Way too optimistic. Obama's numbers are undoubtedly on the upswing but I have a hard time believing that he beats Huckabee and Romney by double digits while the economy is still in such a sluggish state.

What is to say that the economy will be in so sluggish a state in 2012? It is less sluggish than it was two years ago, when many people thought that we had an ongoing replay of the 1929-1933 meltdown.

I am not surprised at how the President matches up to Sarah Palin. People are beginning to recognize her for what she is. At this point I could see her doing as badly as Landon '36, Goldwater '64, McGovern '72, or Mondale '84 if she were the Republican nominee. Her rhetoric has become an object of ridicule. Hint: the money goes elsewhere. She can't raise enough money to offset the power of the 527 organizations.
   

[ilikeverin]

Way too optimistic. Obama's numbers are undoubtedly on the upswing but I have a hard time believing that he beats Huckabee and Romney by double digits while the economy is still in such a sluggish state.

Indeed.  Luckily, it will have recovered by then.

[Eraserhead]

I have a feeling that the 2012 election is going to be pretty anti-climatic.

[Badger]

Way too optimistic. Obama's numbers are undoubtedly on the upswing but I have a hard time believing that he beats Huckabee and Romney by double digits while the economy is still in such a sluggish state.

Indeed.  Luckily, it will have recovered by then.

And the GOP will claim it was due to their forcing the upper income tax cut extension.

Most optomistic numbers of this poll:

"Will Obama do a better job or worse job the next two years?

Better: 61%

Worse: 21%"

Even if this is an overly friendly voter sample as px75 suggests, those are some very bullish indicators about optomism for Obama.

[Mehmentum]

As much as I wish this poll were right, it does seem fishy.

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Although I doubt these numbers are accurate, it does slightly fit into the current trend right now. 

[Mehmentum]

On the other hand, Gallup had Obama at 49/43, and the RealClearPolitics average is 49/46, so that part of the poll is not out of line.

 

[ilikeverin]

Way too optimistic. Obama's numbers are undoubtedly on the upswing but I have a hard time believing that he beats Huckabee and Romney by double digits while the economy is still in such a sluggish state.

Indeed.  Luckily, it will have recovered by then.

And the GOP will claim it was due to their forcing the upper income tax cut extension.

...putting them in the awkward position of having to praise Barack Obama for their supposed chief argument that they got the country out of the recession.

[opebo]

Way too optimistic. Obama's numbers are undoubtedly on the upswing but I have a hard time believing that he beats Huckabee and Romney by double digits while the economy is still in such a sluggish state.

Indeed.  Luckily, it will have recovered by then.

And the GOP will claim it was due to their forcing the upper income tax cut extension.

It won't matter what anybody claims; the fact is a tolerable economy = positive for incumbent regardless of specific policies or attributions of those.  However I suppose it is far from certain that the economy will be 'recovered' by that time.. or rather, whether it will be perceived to have recovered.

[Iosif]

That's not consistent with Palin's 15 point lead in Texas.

Trash poll.

[albaleman]

I don't believe this poll, though I can believe things are getting better for Obama. Odd they didn't poll Obama vs. Gingrich.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Maybe Americans are just in love with divided government? 

[jbgator]

Palin and Romney aren't the best candidates.  A new face needs to get some air time and get hype like Obama had.  Give Gingrich a microphone and watch him in the debates.

[pbrower2a]

Palin and Romney aren't the best candidates.  A new face needs to get some air time and get hype like Obama had.  Give Gingrich a microphone and watch him in the debates.

Such would be the equivalent of bringing a knife to a gun fight.  Gingrich has done little debating. He'd be rusty. President Obama would beat Newt Gingrich at the former Congressman's supposed strength.

The GOP nominee is likely to be someone who has done "long and distinguished service to the Party" because it is going to have other concerns -- like perhaps taking over the Senate (still possible if Obama wins) and protecting the House majority (which shows no signs of offering anything other than a rehash of a stale agenda defeated in 2006). 

[Badger]

Palin and Romney aren't the best candidates.  A new face needs to get some air time and get hype like Obama had.  Give Gingrich a microphone and watch him in the debates.

Gingrich = "a new face"?