The Official Obama Approval Ratings Thread

[Oakvale]

I notice Rasmussen is still polling "likely voters" - how the hell does that make any sense?

[Oakvale]

It makes more sense than polling adults.

Not really - what's a "likely voter" at this point?

[Oakvale]

Right J.J., I didn't recognize that rodeo clown Glenn Beck became such an authoritative figure all of a sudden.  Just because Beck said it was good doesn't mean it was good.

You may want to read what even a far-left liberal like Kirsten Powers had to say about it.  Gallup and Rasmussen don't seem to agree with rodeo clown Glenn Beck and agree more with Powers.

Shut up.

Please.

[Oakvale]

Lyndon,

Are you too busy crying over rain drops?  Because Rasmussen and Gallup seem to indicate nobody else did besides rodeo clown Glenn Beck.

Jesus, you're such a mind-numbingly annoying hack I don't even know why I'm responding to you, but take a look at this -



Also take a look at the praise Obama's speech from, uh, virtually everyone - even on the right,  from John McCain to Chris Christie to Charles Krauthammer.

Here's a nice list.

Please, please, go away. Go and post at the Free Republic and never come back.

[Oakvale]

Bizzare to see "Elaine Marshall's pimp" being the outlier.

[Oakvale]

Hmmm, seems like the creep back to positive approval was genuine recovery rather than a temporary "rally around the flag" bounce.

In large part this can be explained by the Gallup (IIRC) poll showing the highest number of American optimistic about the economy in some three years...

[Oakvale]

That's a weird anti-Obama sample.

Yeah, he's up at 51% in Gallup today.

[Oakvale]

Rasmussen is looking like a bizzare outlier on the RCP average. Reminds me of the early days when everyone else had Obama in the 60s and Rasmussen had him a good ten points lower.

[Oakvale]

Rasmussen Obama (National)

Approve 49%, u.

Disapprove 50%, +1.

"Strongly Approve" is at 26%, +1.  "Strongly Disapprove" is at 36%, -1.

While no "bin Laden Bounce" at this point, the Strongly Disapprove number is tied for the lowest since February 2011.

Guessing they haven't picked up on the Bin Laden effect yet. Because, uh, even if you think it won't do much for Obama's approval he's hardly going to gain a point in disapproval because of it.

[Oakvale]

[Oakvale]

Gallup's being weird.

[Oakvale]

Obama falls apart in Gallup.  Back down to 48/44

Down ten net approval points in two days.

Stop saying that, it's silly. It's like me going Obama surges in approval!!!!!11 after the bump a few days ago.

[Oakvale]

OBAMA COLLAPSES THREE POINTS IN TRACKING POLL, PALIN ELECTED PRESIDENT IN LANDSLIDE

[Oakvale]

Obama down to 43%

http://www.zogby.com/

I swear you've posted this exact message, always based on a Zogby "poll",  dozens of times.

[Oakvale]

It seems interesting that Obama is resigned to the fact that he might lose in 2012, I suppose that hope and optimism is gone, replaced by realism. 

While the optimism might have replaced by realism, and lower poll numbers, I have not seen Obama being resigned to losing in 2012.  I think it is still wide open.

I think Obama has mentally checked out, he said his wife and children are happy with only 1 term.  Unless he starts smoking again maybe he'll exhibit more energy on the campaign trail. 

u mad

[Oakvale]

Huh. Obama seems to be on an upward trend, although Rasmussen (of all pollsters!) have him a few points higher than everyone else.

[Oakvale]

Presidential polling has been around for such a short time, and the sample size of Presidential elections is so small that drawing these definitive conclusions from the data is a waste of time.

[Oakvale]

View my blog for information about Obama's 4 years

voterepublican12.blogspot.com/

That blog is so shamelessly disingenuous that I have to ask - are you Mitt Romney?

[Oakvale]

Could we expect a SOTU bump?

SOTU bumps are largely fictional, I believe.

[Oakvale]

Us Newtonians must redouble our efforts in supporting Gingrich to be the Republican nominee.

EDIT: Here's a graph of Obama's approval since he took office - you can really see the slow but steady approval rating increase in the last few months - I'm using TPM's Poll Tracker since it's a lot less sensitive than RCP's and you get a clearer look at the trends.

[Oakvale]

I vastly prefer TPM's Poll Tracker to RCP's average. It's the same concept, but a lot less sensitive, so less prone to exciting and misleading drops and surges.

You can clearly see that Obama's been slowly but surely improving - the gap between approve and disapprove peaked in September of last year, and since then there's been a steady rise in approval and fall in disapproval.

[Oakvale]

lol Gallup

[Oakvale]

Why would anyone approve someone who trashed our economy by making bigger government and destroying business?

Vapid right-wing talking points, eh? Welcome to the forum, Mitt!

[Oakvale]

This thread is great because you've got J.J. holding court on how Obama is looking "grim" according to the approval numbers despite the fact that almost every poll shows him comfortably winning re-election.

[Oakvale]

BREAKING!



I don't know why I'm bothering to point this out, but the number of Presidential elections featuring an incumbent since approval polling began is so tiny that you can't actually draw meaningful conclusions from the numbers.