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If President Obama's approval rating doesn't rise above 45 percent, can he be reelected?
CNN ^ | 6/22/2011 | Jack Cafferty

Posted on 06/22/2011 7:03:00 PM PDT by Signalman

FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty:

While America's fixating on numbers from President Obama in his speech tonight on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, like how many troops are coming home and by when, the president and his re-election team are probably stuck on a very different set of figures.

For example, 43 percent, the president's daily job approval rating according to Gallup. It's been moving down this week. And 49 percent, the percentage of Americans who disapprove of the job he is doing. They aren't very good numbers.

Here's another number that's probably going to keep the Obama reelection campaign awake at night: 30 percent. That's the very small percentage of Americans who say they are certain they would vote to re-elect President Obama come next November. And 36 percent, the percentage who say they definitely won't cast a vote for four more years of his presidency. These stats come from a new Bloomberg National Poll. Here's one more from the same poll, maybe the worst one of all: 66 percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong track.

It's a tight spot for President Obama to be in. So much of his sinking poll numbers has to do with the economy and the lack of real recovery we've seen during his term. But it also has to do with the four wars we are fighting and the nation's growing deficit too.

What it doesn't have much to do with is Obama's potential Republican opponents. No one in that lackluster field is really getting the voting population excited. And that might be the only thing that's keeping the president in the 2012 race at this point.

(Excerpt) Read more at caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com ...


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1 posted on 06/22/2011 7:03:08 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

The latest poll.....obama 12%...soetoro 11%...soebarkah 7%...dunham 6%.


2 posted on 06/22/2011 7:06:31 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: Signalman

Stranger things have happened.

And I don’t put outright theft and chicanery as weapons of Dem/Lib election wars. Remember all the lawyers in elections past.

That was Phase 1. Now we’ve moved on to Executive Orders, Do-Nothing Congresses ... all in the name of cleaning the cesspool and bi-partisanship.


3 posted on 06/22/2011 7:07:22 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: Signalman

IMHO, you’re officially un-electable when your approval rating hits 25%.


4 posted on 06/22/2011 7:08:06 PM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: Signalman

Keep in mind that dead voters are not included in approval polls. Besides, what makes you think we will have an election in 2012?


5 posted on 06/22/2011 7:08:14 PM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: Signalman

The national media is so scare OBAMA IS GOING TO LOSE the next election. They will do everything they can to lie, cheat and destroy anyone who gets in their way to help obama.


6 posted on 06/22/2011 7:09:19 PM PDT by Linda Frances
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To: Signalman

Blaming ATMs for the unemployment crisis shows how out of touch Obama is with ‘mid’ America.

The weekly unemployment continues to be over 400k new claims each week.

Without significant improvement in the next few months, the theme next will will be “it’s the economy, Stupid!” and Obama and his team seem clueless on how to deal with it.

The election could be the Republicans’ to lose — which they certain can do.


7 posted on 06/22/2011 7:10:29 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Signalman
SEIU and the Community Agitators Formerly Known as ACORN say 'Yes!'
8 posted on 06/22/2011 7:11:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
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To: Signalman

If this many people have a favorable rating for zer0, why don’t they put their fork in their eye while trying to eat?


9 posted on 06/22/2011 7:12:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Osama and Obama both have friends that bombed the Pentagon.)
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To: Signalman
Do you understand how much of a problem it is that Obama consistently has 40-45% approval?

That means that at least 100 million US residents hate America and want her destroyed.

After he's gone, they will still be here.

10 posted on 06/22/2011 7:14:33 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The Constitution is overthrown. The Revolution is betrayed.)
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To: Signalman

What percentage of the vote did Clinton win with?


11 posted on 06/22/2011 7:15:21 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (I am still looking for that box I am supposed to think out of.)
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To: Signalman

Stop worrying, dude. Just see to it that he isn’t reelected.


12 posted on 06/22/2011 7:15:21 PM PDT by yup2394871293
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To: MtnClimber

Fortunately, like Ruprecht, they have a buddy to put a cork on the end of it so they don't harm themself.

13 posted on 06/22/2011 7:16:55 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: K-oneTexas
Stranger things have happened.

If Obama's number fall below 40 by early next springs, I think the Dem leadership will pressure him to not run. They will feign some illness or some such. They like having the WH and, after losing the House in 2010 and possibly losing the Senate in 2012, they don't want to head into next fall with such low numbers for their incumbent.


14 posted on 06/22/2011 7:21:58 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: biggredd1

Bounel 2%


15 posted on 06/22/2011 7:22:10 PM PDT by omega4179
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To: Signalman

With 10 or 15 million fraudulent votes, sure.


16 posted on 06/22/2011 7:23:03 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: omega4179

LOL!!!!


17 posted on 06/22/2011 7:23:44 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: Signalman

Of course, Silly. They don’t poll graveyards, they just vote the people in them. Such a silly question.


18 posted on 06/22/2011 7:24:59 PM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: Signalman

If illegals and the dead vote then the answer is yes, zero can be re-elected.


19 posted on 06/22/2011 7:26:24 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Signalman

With a 3rd party candidate on the “right”, a 45% approval will win him reelection easily, I’m sad to say. I’m sure he’ll have that 3rd party candidate too.

I’d say it has already been arranged.....


20 posted on 06/22/2011 7:28:09 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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