To be a successful MSM newser these days ... you have to make up stories out of whole cloth ... and to do that the way we do, you have to have almost no intelligence and absolutely no sense of shame!
Posted on 01/19/2015 8:38:52 AM PST by Zakeet
President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday enjoying rising approval ratings that have been strengthened by rapidly improving perceptions of the economy and increased optimism about the overall direction of the country, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Obama’s overall approval rating now stands at 50 percent, the highest in a Post-ABC poll since the spring of 2013. His standing is nine points higher than in December and seven points higher than in October, just before Republicans captured control of the Senate, increased their House majority to its highest level in eight decades and recorded advances in the states.
The Post-ABC survey puts the president’s approval rating slightly higher than some other recent public polls. But most have shown improvement since the November elections as the president has moved aggressively and unilaterally on issues such as immigration and climate change.
The bigger factor helping to boost his standing is a series of economic indicators that have shown steadily improving conditions.
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To be a successful MSM newser these days ... you have to make up stories out of whole cloth ... and to do that the way we do, you have to have almost no intelligence and absolutely no sense of shame!
Oil prices saved him, and he had NOTHING to do with it!
LOLOLOLOLOLOL! Standing? What standing? Only in Unicornia maybe. Or Rainbowville.
Washington Post and ABC? Two of the most liberal media outlets. I long ago concluded that certain polls by liberal leaning media are skewed by their own liberal readers. This means nothing.
Limbaugh warned us about that. Sooner or later the American economy WOULD start to recover due to it’s inherent strength and resiliency. And Obama would get the credit.
“Surveys” are used for driving trends towards the left. They are no longer used to measure anything.
The economy improving is not part of Obama’s plan.
Gruber was right.
There has certainly been no recovery here in the northeast; are they trying to tout this in states with Republican governments that Obama lost anyway?
$18T in debt buys a lot of economy
LOL. HE SUCKS, I DON’T CARE WHAT THE MEDIA SPEWS.
Middle fifth of income earners goes from 53K to 47K on his watch.
Depleting the upper 1% of all their wealth would not dent the prospects for this large group of people.
The falling gas prices are having an effect on the consumer's mood. But, it will be fairly short term. Layoffs are starting in that industry. With the oil and gas jobs, the economy would be a lot worse as we are still mired in the worst recovery in decades and most of the jobs, save for those oil industry jobs, have been low pay, part time. I wouldn't be surprised if the Fed starts hinting at more Qe if current trends continue.
I haven't heard this on the mainstream news yet but Bloomberg’s had an article last week were 30 year Treasury yields fell to a record low. This is getting to be 2007ish when GWB also talked up the economy in his 2007 SOTU speech
Also, the employer mandate just went into effect this year.
Except the economy is NOT bouncing back. We have a surly alliance between the MSNBC crowd/Wall Street and the Administration to push the agenda on how great the economy is. Wall Street always want the narrative to be positive so they can push their stocks on the the masses.
Obama knows that the media has successfully silenced his critics from day 1 (of his initial campaign); the race card trumps all.
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