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Strong. But Average. And Way Divided. (Obama poll most extreme in modern history)
ABC ^ | 4/5/09 | Gary Langer

Posted on 04/05/2009 6:46:39 PM PDT by Nachum

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To: Nachum

TOTUS is addressing the nation again???


21 posted on 04/05/2009 7:34:01 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Oztrich Boy
Gotta be wrong. Tuesday is Obamanight, to catch the audience of American Idol and The Biggest Loser

I'd sit and stare at the wall before I'd waste my time watching 'the messiah' on television.

22 posted on 04/05/2009 7:34:21 PM PDT by CASchack
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To: Nachum

You link to an article thats 5 weeks old, yet you list the date as April 5th ? Youre a real piece of work, Nachy. Why not post this in CHAT ?????


23 posted on 04/05/2009 7:36:36 PM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: Nachum
Polarized Gap
24 posted on 04/05/2009 7:38:11 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (Our people perish through lack of wisdom, but they are content in their ignorance.)
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To: Nonstatist

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1178/polarized-partisan-gap-in-obama-approval-historic


25 posted on 04/05/2009 7:43:15 PM PDT by Nachum (the complete list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

link doesent work for me


26 posted on 04/05/2009 7:52:27 PM PDT by Nonstatist
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To: Emmett McCarthy

OH!!! ME NEITHER!!!! Can’t stand “Horatio.” Tries to be waaay to cool. My daughter does an awesome impression of him. I have to laugh.


27 posted on 04/05/2009 7:55:01 PM PDT by It's me
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To: Nonstatist
I know, it is a royal pain to get the site to download. I finally got the link to open for me. Here is the article

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Partisan Gap in Obama Job Approval Widest in Modern Era
April 2, 2009

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For all of his hopes about bipartisanship, Barack Obama has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades. The 61-point partisan gap in opinions about Obama's job performance is the result of a combination of high Democratic ratings for the president -- 88% job approval among Democrats -- and relatively low approval ratings among Republicans (27%).

By comparison, there was a somewhat smaller 51-point partisan gap in views of George W. Bush's job performance in April 2001, a few months into his first term. At that time, Republican enthusiasm for Bush was comparable to how Democrats feel about Obama today, but there was substantially less criticism from members of the opposition party. Among Democrats, 36% approved of Bush's job performance in April 2001; that compares with a 27% job approval rating for Obama among Republicans today.

The partisan gap in Bill Clinton's early days was also substantially smaller than what Obama faces, largely because Democrats were less enthusiastic about Clinton. In early April 1993, 71% of Democrats approved of Clinton's job performance, which is 17 points lower than Obama's current job approval among Democrats. Republican ratings of Clinton at that point (26%) are comparable to their current ratings of Obama today (27%).

The growing partisan divide in presidential approval ratings is part of a long-term trend. Going back in time, partisanship was far less evident in the early job approval ratings for both Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon. In fact, a majority of Republicans (56%) approved of Carter's job performance in late March 1977, and a majority of Democrats (55%) approved of Nixon's performance at a comparable point in his first term

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1178/polarized-partisan-gap-in-obama-approval-historic

(The site just is hard to open- that is why I tried to find another source with the same info. Your complaint is valid)

28 posted on 04/05/2009 7:56:33 PM PDT by Nachum (the complete list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: sionnsar

I’m with you.

But surely you’ll turn on the TV for the impeachment hearings :)


29 posted on 04/05/2009 8:05:59 PM PDT by upchuck (I'm glad I'm old. Thus I can remember when America was a decent, moral, God fearing country.)
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To: rfp1234
Nice schematic of the teleprompter there!

Cheers!

30 posted on 04/05/2009 8:29:43 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Cicero
This article says, “And now there’s Obama, who’s made reaching across party lines a point of principle in his presidency,

The sheer number of false premises offered by the MSM staggers the mind. All this 'reaching across' crap was campaign bullshit. Now it's 'I won', and constant propaganda across all media. All non-idiots can see it clearly.

31 posted on 04/05/2009 10:34:12 PM PDT by Seven plus One
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To: sionnsar
He's on TV tonight? Again? Doesn't matter -- the teeheevee will remain off.

Just think. We are going to be putting up with him for four long years. I doubt we are the only two people who are sick of him already! I won't be watching either!

32 posted on 04/05/2009 10:48:19 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: buccaneer81; Emmett McCarthy
... I can’t stand Horatio Kane.

Ditto. I'm sick of "the pose".


33 posted on 04/05/2009 10:53:59 PM PDT by WVKayaker ( Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke)
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To: Nachum

Gary Langer

ABC's reporting of public opinion polls in Iraq.

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July 5, 2007, 9:12 am

What Do a New Orleans Death Spike and a Study on Surplus Embryos Have in Common?

By Stephen J. Dubner

They were both widely reported this week, although not at ABC News. Gary Langer, who runs polling at ABC and also acts as its data cop, kept both stories off the air after kicking their tires and determining that they weren’t worth reporting. Langer was obviously not sufficiently consulted in the Paris-Hilton- gets-out-of-jail story.

34 posted on 04/05/2009 10:55:44 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Nachum
...as we await President Obama’s address to the nation tonight...

You gotta be kidding me. He is on again tonight? When will America get a break for his narcissism?

35 posted on 04/06/2009 2:25:32 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm SO glad I no longer belong to the party of Dependence on Government!)
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