The Official Obama Approval Ratings Thread

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Very strong numbers in Virginia.  It's interesting to see him at 41-38 among conservatives, and 47-34 among Evangelicals.  The only group that disapproves of him are Republicans, and even then it's only a -13, with 25% unsure.  He's actually above 50% with most groups, which is a good sign.  I'm a little surprised he's the same with men and women, though.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

North Carolina must be off.  PPP probably flipped some numbers around.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Diaego/Hotline Poll

67% Approve


Outlier?

Maybe by a point or two.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Zogby Approval

Approve 52%
Disapprove 46%

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1681

LOL at Zogby.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Texas (University of Texas, Feb. 24 - March 6, 2009):

45% Approve
42% Disapprove
13% Undecided

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/txp_media/html/poll/files/200903-summary.pdf

That seems hard to believe.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

The gap between Rasmussen and Gallup widened today:

Rasmussen:

55% Approve (nc)
44% Disapprove (+1)

Gallup:

64% Approve (+2)
26% Disapprove (-1)

I'd guess Obama is probaby at about 60% right now.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

And yes, I do admire my country. I live in the greatest country on Earth.

That doesn't mean you cannot criticize America.  I'm certainly not member of the "Blame America first crowd" (partly because it doesn't exist); America has made a lot of mistakes, especially in the way it has handled the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  It is foolish to think that America is infallible, because it isn't.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

So Obama's probably at around 60% nationally.  Good numbers for May.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Do you seriously think Obama would get 65% in an election in North Carolina?

Absolutely not. 55%, tops. An approval rating does not translate smoothly into voting.

More like 52%.  The last Democrat to break 55% in NC was Carter in 1976.  Only 1 Democrat has broken 45% since then, and that was Obama last year.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

A new Mason-Dixon Nevada poll will be out soon.

But I don't know how reliable Mason-Dixon is after showing only a 4-point Obama win in Nevada, when he really won it by 13% ...

In all fairness, did anyone get NV right? I remember PPP also had a 4 point spread.

Zogby had a 10 point lead on 11/3.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Minnesota (Rasmussen, 500 LV, May 18)

44% Approve
55% Disapprove

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/states_general/minnesota/toplines/toplines_minnesota_senate_may_18_2009

WTF !???

Obama is at 66/33, Coleman and Franken are both at 44/55.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Why do people care what avatar he has?  He has a Romney banner in his sig, for pete's sake.  It really doesn't matter.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

even Deeds.

Obama's still doing well in Virginia.  I also don't think Deeds is tied too closely to Obama for it to hurt him unless Obama falls into the 40's.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Virginia (Rasmussen)

51% Approve
48% Disapprove

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I'd say his approval rating is in between the Gallup and Rasmussen numbers.

Yeah, i'd agree with that.

Thirded, but that isn't exactly a surprise.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Actually the Iraq War would have went much smoother had the left not kept getting in the way of Bush's actions and constantly criticizing him.

Really?  Was it the Left's fault that Rumsfeld badly mismanaged the War, or that Bush didn't have a plan for the post Hussein era?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Virginia (Washington Post)

57% Approve
41% Disapprove

This Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone August 11-14, 2009, among a random sample of 1,002 adults in the Commonwealth of Virginia including users of both conventional and cellular phones. The results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by TNS of Horsham, Pa.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_081609.html

And yet it has McDonnell leading Deeds by 7-15 points. 

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Why is Romney so low?

Because the youth of today don't want to vote for Pure Evil.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

One thing seems reasonably certain: Obama is not about to get a spike in his approval ratings analogous to that of Dubya eight years ago!

Let us hope so.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Ohio (Quinnipiac University)

53% Approve
42% Disapprove

Very surprising, but good.  New Jersey is also incredibly odd; any explanations?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

You sir are not just a moron, but a HACK.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I wish Dave could set up a map like he did for the election polling; so that we can see an unbiased view of the whole.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Virginia (Rasmussen)

52% Approve
48% Disapprove

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2009/virginia/toplines/toplines_virginia_governor_election_september_29_2009

The Deeds numbers don't match up either.  Weird.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Wisconsin (Wisconsin Policy Research Institute)

57.4% Approve
40.4% Disapprove

Good to see, but inaccurate.  Plus, it's all adults, not even just registered voters.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

but a poll is a poll unless the organization is suspect.

Coming from you, LOL.