Posted on 07/24/2009 6:36:36 AM PDT by tatown
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 30% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -8 (see trends).
Just 25% believe that the economic stimulus package has helped the economy.
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates also available on Twitter.
Overall, 49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Today marks the first time his overall approval rating has ever fallen below 50% among Likely Voters nationwide. Fifty-one percent (51%) disapprove.
Eighty-three percent (83%) of Democrats continue to approve of the President’s performance while 80% of Republicans disapprove. Among those not affiliated with either major party, 37% offer a positive assessment. The President earns approval from 51% of women and 47% of men.
These updates are based upon nightly telephone interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. Most of the interviews for today’s update were completed before the President’s nationally televised press conference on Wednesday night. The first update based entirely upon interviews conducted after the press conference will be released on Sunday.
It is important to remember that the Rasmussen Reports job approval ratings are based upon a sample of likely voters. Some other firms base their approval ratings on samples of all adults. President Obama’s numbers are always several points higher in a poll of adults rather than likely voters. That’s because some of the President’s most enthusiastic supporters, such as young adults, are less likely to turn out to vote.
California Senator Barbara Boxer is clinging to a four-point lead in her bid for re-election.
Fifty-three percent (53%) now oppose the Congressional health care reform package. That’s up eight points over the past month. Just 20% now see health care as the most important of the President’s priorities. Nearly twice as many, 37%, say deficit reduction is most important.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of California voters oppose the budget agreement reached by the state’s political leaders. Sixty-four percent (64%) believe that illegal immigrants create a major strain on the state’s budget.
Nationwide, 72% don’t want the federal government determining what type of light bulbs they should purchase.
Forty-six percent (46%) say that network television news is more reliable than the internet. Thirty-five percent (35%) disagree.
Thirty-one percent (31%) now say the U.S. is heading in the right direction. That’s down nine points from the 2009 peak. Republicans continue to enjoy a slight edge on the Generic Congressional Ballot.
Rasmussen's poll is a 3 day running average. Obama has been steady at 51% for the past few days. In order to get a 49% in a 3 day rolling average, that means yesterday as a single day Obama polled at 45% approval.
Plane in full stall. Altitude dropping.
Dim-bulb-crat response: Pull the stick further back. It always makes us go up.
Or: Way in dept. Income dropping.
Dim-bulb-crat response: spend more.
And Obama is smart? What a bunch of bull-Obama.
beat me.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Down, Down, Down
And the flames went higher
And it Burns, Burns, Burns
How long before the msm begins to attack Rasmussen.
Now thats change I can believe in
As Springsteen used to say, “I’m going down ..down...down..down...I’m going down...down..down..down....”
When they refer to him as Racistmussen?
There may be some real fireworks if Pelosi and Rahm ram through the healthcare bill over the weekend. I hope this doesn't happen, and O just continues down in a tight flat spiral without inflicting more major damage.
Wonder what he polled if you take out (or normalize) the 97% approval rating he gets from a certain group that make up about 13% of the population....
This evil traitor needs to be run out of the WH.
To add to this fun, as I posted a week or so ago, remember this one?
Burn baby burn...disco inferno...burn baby burn....
There aren’t a heck of a lot of ways for Obama to prop his numbers up. The next month the health care problems will be beat to death. Unemployment continues up and benefits will be dropping off. We can only pray that we have a horrible end to this summer to put Obama in free fall for good.
I think Obama used to sing that same line to Larry Sinclair.
When the American people put faith in one undeservingly, they are slow to correct their error, for their error is an indictment of them.
This hidden camera photo, taken by an anonymous source under extremely secretive precautions, captures President Obama and advisor David Axelrod as they react to recent polling trends.
his "stupid" comment will cost stupid even more...
(liberals in the media and elsewhere may get the DT's even sooner than I thought...maybe Glenn Beck could offer them some duck tape)
Obama is the Willoughby/Wickham of politics. A slick talker with an appealing exterior but underneath something much darker lurks. His actions speak much louder than his words.
Mr. President, the honeymoon is over.
for later view...
I predict when the tapes come out they will back up Sgt Crowley and paint Prof Gates in a very bad light.
The much bigger point is that this incident may turn out to be a watershed moment in Obama’s Presidency. His polls have been going south and this incident will likely exarcerbate that greatly. The approval or Obama the ‘man’ has always been greater than approval for his policies. This incident will likely erode his personal popularity much more than the MSM realize.
The liberal elite and many minorities have an intrinsic distrust of law enforecement, and the ‘rush to judgement’ in branding Sgt Crowley a racist was a huge blunder by the MSM. Watching Chuck Todd on MSNBC this morning was very enlightening. He said Obama had been ‘prepped’ before the news conference that he ‘might’ asked about the Prof Gates incident. He was prepped, but without the ‘facts’. The question was obviously a plant from his compliant media whores, designed to be asked last in order that Obama end his press conference on a high note. For him to answer the question with a charge that the Cambridge Police ‘acted stupidly’ was one on the biggest in many of his blunders thus far as President.
Todd said that ‘privately the White House wished he had not used the word ‘stupid’. That is the biggest understatement of the year, because using a term like that indicted police officers everywhere. The average law abiding citizen, seeing the real facts of the case a few days later, is siding with Sgt Crowley by a huge margin.
As Abe Lincoln once said “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Obama, a supposed student of history, obviously doesn’t believe that, because by opening his mouth about a topic on which he admitted he did not have the facts, made him a fool.
As these tapes are released and his friend (another of O’s friends, Ayers, Wright, and now Gates) is shown to be a self important race hustler, people will realize Obama is not the ‘post racial’ person he claims to be. He is a pretender to that, but his default position is to use race when he thinks he can use it to his advantage. In this case, speaking about race without knowing the facts has blown up in his face.
The disaffected masses who voted for him who live in flyover country are probably looking at him in another light today, and I do not believe his personal popularity will ever recover from this wound. This is Obama’s Waterloo, even though he still not realize the grievous wound he has suffered and continues to go out and defend the indefensible.
Be very careful folks.
Community organizer BO and his puppet master Rahm will do something drastic to try and pull the numbers back up.
I put nothing past them.
We cannot rest on our laurels...
while his numbers go down he still goes with his national death care, increase in taxes, energy tax and cutting the military.
The GOP should be now at the forefront taking advantage but are they?
No
This also shows the arrogance of bozo and his ilk.
The majority do not want these policies and yet he ignores this because he thinks he knows better or Michelle obama and her freeloading mother in law want it.
Talking of her.
Yesterday i saw Laura Bush on TV for big brother and big sister , while she was in office she took on education and reading.
I know Hillary Clinton took women’s issues on.
What on earth is michelle obama doing, never see her taking on a certain issue, she freeloads around the world with her husband and just does day visits from the white house and even that she seems to look pissed off.
Where is the media asking her this instead pretending she has class and style.
She has a massive arse, no dress sense and is the laziest first woman I have ever known to go to the white house
I'm 65 1/2, my experience is just the opposite.
But look at the stock market going up...there are things happening the Drive Bys and the BO administration will try to put focus on...pretending things are getting better....
It is critical for Americans to hear the truth, and not BO’s spin.
What would he poll if they polled Oklahoma and the other five Red states in the middle from Texas to North Dakota. He only got 34% of the votes in November and as the Dem Congressman Dan Boren OK-2 said, he wouldn’t get that many if the election were held today.
Good to hear. My grandparents think that because Brian Williams said it, it must be true. I try to inform them otherwise, but its futility in action.
Will 0b0z0’s serial killer healthplan become his Waterloo?
ABBA doing their great version of WaterLoo for 0b0z0 and for our enjoyment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTcSd0VRjOQ
Obama did that Wednesday night with his latest Nationalized Health Care
pitch -- he just doesn't realize it yet. All he needs is the leather jacket ...
GOOD POINT
not one elected official runs for the office and has a 95% of a voting bloc .
95% of 13% is a lot of votes in some states
course they all backed him because of his agenda, no seriously they knew all about him and what he stands for.
honest they really are involved in politics and look to elect who they think will be best for this country
noting to do with color, honest..
The media told us we’re past this racial stuff, we’re all one.
ps
psstt
someone forgot to tell most of the black community .
for you lefty loons before you pass judgement then go and live in a ghetto like I have and see what it is really like instead of living in your white gated mcmansion area saying how you like diversity but you do not live it.
I agree. This is a very happy day indeed and I raise my coffee cup to a continued decent that accelerates each and every day.
Same song, a more appropriate lyric:
I couldn’t get enough...so I had to self-destruct!
[that means yesterday as a single day Obama polled at 45% approval. ]
Perhaps, this is why Obama played the race card Wednesday night.
When the media asked him the softball ? and he made the mistake of letting “us” see the real obama, he should of said homie dont play that
Two key numbers to look for. When unemployment hits 10 percent and stays above it, Dems will lose House in 2010. When the unemployment hits 12 percent or higher by 2012, Dems will lose Senate and Presidency.
Most of the polling was done before his press conference. What will be the effect of his comment about the Cambridge police? Was Obama’s response his “Katrina moment”? Think of the irony. What was meant as a softball question from one of Obama’s biggest admirers in the media, Lynn Sweet, may have actually initiated the total crippling of his Presidency.
The best part is the media is in full kneepad mode defending him, and he has dropped this low. At some point, he will drop so low that they will have to stop defending him to preserve their own credibility, and at that point it will be “Welcome back Carter” time.
The real plunge is coming.
I like your style. Obama's Waterloo Press Conference.
Funny, I saw on some moonbat site yesterday where in response to ODUMBO’s plummeting numbers as seen on Rasmussen, one of the ‘bats said Murdoch purchased Rasmussen’s polling company.
I wish I’ll for no one except dens he ha
Obama: Shut up, stupid!
Biden: You're Stupider
Obama: You're the Stupdiester
Biden: You're a...
the clouds part and a light from above shines down.
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