[napscoordinator]

I can't believe that he is at -10. With all that is going on this cannot possibly be right. Something must be going on that we don't know.

[tatown]

I could not agree with you more. I’ve been asking about this for several weeks now. The fact that he is at -10 and 49% overall is completely unbelievable to me.

To simply explain it away by saying that the public is ‘brain dead’ isn’t good enough. We just had a fantastic mid-term result in November so that alone tells me that the public is paying attention. For some unexplainable reason, roughly 50% of the public thinks Obama is immune from blame for the situation we are in. Un-effin-believable!

[fwdude]

It’s ‘statistical noise,’ nothing more.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

It appears that everyday folks want a POTUS that talks and acts tough.

[Sybeck1]

outlier

[VeeP22]

Bollocks. I don’t believe any poll, these days even Rasmussen.

[xkaydet65]

Weekend syndrome.

[bigbob]

For crying out loud, just IGNORE these polls!

What good does it do other than make you frustrated?

[LibLieSlayer]

Anyone with half a brain has been saying for over a year that rasmussen has screwed up his polling... it is beyond ridiculous... it is simply a sine wave repeating... over and over and over.

LLS

[fso301]

I can't believe that he is at -10. With all that is going on this cannot possibly be right. Something must be going on that we don't know.

Unfortunately, the nation has changed quite a bit from the days of Jimmy Carter, or even Bill Clinton.

[TexasFreeper2009]

If you look at Real Clear Politics which is simply a poll of all the polls available you will see that Obama has simply gone from the mid 40’s to the high 40’s since the lame duck session.

He basically got a bump for extending the Bush tax cuts which hasn't completely dissipated yet.

[sbMKE]

Obama always does better on weekends - tougher to get a full and accurate sample. Rasmussen is a three day rolling sample.

[Vermont Lt]

When international issues arise, the great leader’s numbers will consolidate. It is mostly likely some noise in the sample (I mean everyone was watching the Oscar’s last night—who was answering their phone?)

[Truthsearcher]

If you tossed a coin a hundred times each day, some days it will be 55 heads, and another it could be 45 heads. That doesn’t mean the likelihood of a tossing a head changed between those 2 days.

Same is true here, just because it’s -20 one day and -10 on another does not mean his approval changed, there is a certain level of statistical randomness with any daily poll.

If he had the same result every day without variation then you can be sure he’s cooking the numbers.

Long term trends is what matters with these polls, not the daily changes.

[dforest]

Well, he is setting up the next Kosovo. WTH do many of you expect?

We are our own worst enemy. We will pay for it. If we would just get the next election out of our minds, we might have a chance.

What we don’t know is that we, as the GOP morons, have shown him the way.

Keep pointing out what a weenie he is, you get him and his minions showing he ain’t a weenie. Thanks folks. Geesh.

[apillar]

I think a lot of it is a sort of “pressure cooker” effect. The republican victory in November released a lot of the pressure that had built up against Obama. Some of the so-called “moderates” that had drifted into the anti-obama column before November essentially have gone back to sleep now that they feel Obama has the Republican house as a check against his policies that moderates disagreed with.

[SaxxonWoods]

Rasmussen polls have been very volatile for the last couple of months. I don’t know why. I agree with the poster above about the weekend bumps. Check back on Thursday/Friday, I bet the gap is larger again by then.

[WayneH]

It’s not WTH but WTF - Winning the Future

[mia]

Most of the Liberals I know think Obama is brain dead.