The Official Obama Approval Ratings Thread

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Should the Democrats have to defend New Jersey, then it has lost.

Christie can't even beat Corzine and you think one these jokers is going to give Obama a run for his money there?

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Do we think there will be a boost from Obama's Nobel Prize win?

Any Nobel Peace Prize for President Barack Obama is premature.

The understatement of the century.

And, no its not to "strengthen" his hand, its to weaken it. Will the man who got the Nobel Peace Prize vigorously prosecute two wars and use force to stop Iran?

I doubt it would have any real impact on his decisions. Hopefully he won't do either of those things anyway though.

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LOL Gallup. So he goes from 50/43, to 56/37 in a matter of 4 days? Yeah sure.

ITS A CONSPIRACY

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LOL Gallup. So he goes from 50/43, to 56/37 in a matter of 4 days? Yeah sure.

ITS A CONSPIRACY

No, just bad polling.

The burden of proof is on you then.  The Gallup poll is actually extremely close to all of the other recent polling.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html

One of these is not like the others and it isn't Gallup.

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Today's gallup numbers

Approval 56%(no Change)
Disapproval 36%(-1)

Obama is surging.

Although my own support for him is pretty tepid at this point, this is good news for obvious reasons.

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There's good news for both Democrats and Republicans. His approval in Tennessee is surprisingly high, while in New Jersey it's surprisingly low.

This is almost certainly because both of the polls are way off.

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57% Job Approval in NJ according to Rasmussen:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2009/new_jersey/election_2009_new_jersey_governor

His visit should be fairly helpful to Corzine.

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Wild swings in the daily trackers for Obama:

Gallup: 54-39 (+3, -2)
Rasmussen: 49-50 (+2, -2)

Those are my kind of swings.

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Ohio is a libertarian state now? Christ almighty.

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NJ Exit Poll: 57%

VA Exit Poll: 51%

NYC Exit Poll: 77%

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NJ Exit Poll: 57%

VA Exit Poll: 51%

NYC Exit Poll: 77%

VA is 48% Approve, 51% Disapprove

Okay, it was 51% the last time I heard about it.

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Republican edge Democrats in congressional vote according to Gallup:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/124226/Republicans-Edge-Ahead-Democrats-2010-Vote.aspx

The white man is angry.

Why is this in this thread though?

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you guys are way too easily trolled by vanderblubb

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Big movement in the Rasmussen and Gallup daily numbers:

Rasmussen: 50% Approve, 49% Disapprove (+3, -2)

Gallup: 54% Approve, 38% Disapprove (+2, -3)

All hail the messiah.

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Arizona (ASU)

48% Approve
48% Disapprove

The poll was conducted Nov. 19-22 by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and Eight/KAET. The statewide sample of 862 registered voters was 36 percent Republican, 34 percent Democrat and 30 percent Independent. Fifty-nine percent of the interviews were conducted in Maricopa County, 17 percent in Pima County and 24 percent in Arizona’s other counties. Forty-seven percent of the voters interviewed were men and 53 percent were women. The sampling error for the statewide sample survey is plus or minus 3.3 percent.

http://www.azpbs.org/horizon/poll/2009/11-24-09.htm

Garbage.

Anyway, I think you could legitimately say he is in pretty rough shape now. Of course, that doesn't mean he'll be in a bad way a year from now although he could be in even worse shape if the "trend" holds.

By the way, while Obama has fallen below 50% in Gallup's tracking poll he has still yet to do so in the classic USATODAY/Gallup poll. The newest one has approve-disapprove at 50%-46% which is still not very good obviously.

http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2009/11/25/usatgallup-obama-at-50/

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South Carolina(Rasmussen)

Approve 45%
Disapprove 54%

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_state_surveys/south_carolina/49_in_south_carolina_oppose_impeachment_of_sanford

That seems kind of high.

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The SC polls both look pretty odd given the national numbers but they are both from decent pollsters so who knows...

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Just because Obama is running higher the avg approval ratings in SC doesn't mean crap. SC has a high black population, so his approval ratings would be high.

I really don't get what this is supposed to mean. Pollsters generally know how to properly account for these things, certainly Rasmussen and PPP would.

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ARG = joke. Everyone seems to have forgot their wretched track record.

Actually they weren't that bad in 2008. Better than the RAS even:

That's because in the last month or two they suddenly started putting out super-average results (like, always the middle of the release pack) and, surprise surprise, that's where they ended.

Correct. They are a shady crew.

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He's actually been moving upward in the Fox poll.

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Yeah, those are quite strong numbers for Texas.

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Pretty hilarious how poor his approvals are and yet he still crushes Republicans head-to-head. I suppose America just hates everyone right now. Understandable, really.

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Pretty hilarious how poor his approvals are and yet he still crushes Republicans head-to-head. I suppose America just hates everyone right now. Understandable, really.

no. Huckabee beats (unfortunatly) him by 1 and Romney is trailing by 2.

According to the PPP poll which came out after I posted that. The Fox poll has Obama beating Romney, Palin and Gingrich by double digits. I wish they had polled Huckabee.

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Fox News has always been awful at polling, so I doubt it's that far and away. He certainly is leading, though.

Opinion Dynamics isn't too bad.

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I think he'll probably get a small SOTU bump. It won't last long though.