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Why are Obama's poll numbers up?

Posted on 05/24/2011 6:32:00 PM PDT by Jaguarmike

I don't get this. Unemployment ticked up to 9% last month. Gas and food prices are on the rise. And yet in almost every major poll, Obama's over 50%.

Don't tell me it's because Americans are stupid; Obama's numbers have been dreadful until recently. I know he got a bounce from the Bin Laden killing, but what's going on now?


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To: Jaguarmike

Obama treats Americans like they are stupid, his polls are up. Obama may be right.


41 posted on 05/24/2011 7:46:46 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Responsibility2nd

LOL You’re interested in BS!

This has more to do with conspirarcy theories, then it has to do with politics.

The SCOTUS threw out 2-3 cases based on NO evidence. Lower courts have dismissed every attempt to challenge Obama’s BC. Why? Because there is NO proof to back up the allegations being made.

Keep wasting your time. STOP wasting my time, moron!


42 posted on 05/24/2011 7:53:35 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: Jaguarmike

Barry is just a likeable guy. What can you say? (sarc)


43 posted on 05/24/2011 7:54:34 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Jaguarmike

The national media continues to have the power to set the table of public perception. We seek facts out at a deeper level; if we did not we would not be at this website. Have spent the last day and a half at a family reunion here on the Virginia Eastern shore. My brother-in-law is an intelligent man, an electrical engineer living in New York state. He gets his news from the national media and doesn’t look at things much deeper than that. Nonetheless he will argue he is well informed on the matters of the day. Take those with lesser abilities, throw in what passes for popular culture (Dancing with the Stars, etc.) and layer on top the news media political template and we have what we have. I am beginning to believe that none of this will begin to change until the pain becomes far worse, and even then the body politic will fumble about for the way forward as the media will blame the wrong ideas for that very pain.


44 posted on 05/24/2011 8:10:31 PM PDT by dogcaller
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To: GlockThe Vote; Jaguarmike

Yes- we have an iliiterate and tribal voting class. We are on a rapid path to Third World status and if 0 is re-elected ( the odds appear very high), the USA will no longer be what it was. RIP.


45 posted on 05/24/2011 8:12:45 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: An American in Turkiye

His poll numbers are high because the media constantly covers for him. Any other president would have been destroyed if they had made the gaffes and lies that BO has. Fortunately, people are on to him and the media now. Both are known liars and American voters don’t like liars. Remember Nov 2010.


46 posted on 05/24/2011 8:15:03 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: Jaguarmike

Don’t tell you that Americans are stupid? Some people want to ignore reality. Americans ARE stupid.


47 posted on 05/24/2011 8:32:53 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Jaguarmike
When the disapproval goes higher, it's actually because the libs are disapproving...because he doesn't prosecute the "torturers", adopts Bush policy in war, etc.

Right now they aren't displeased with Obama. He's been speaking about gay rights, he's been going after the oil companies, etc.

He'll keep pandering to them in coming months to keep them happy. However, whether he can raise money like he did in '08 is another story.

48 posted on 05/24/2011 8:43:11 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: Doctor 2Brains

It’s like the HG Wells’ time Machine people who “live” listlessly and could care less, laughing at the chivalry of their visitor from the past...except that the bad monster guys of the deep are of the same side of the coin... one and the same with passive aggressive double simultaneous personality.

The author believed in “good people”, in himself, naively.


49 posted on 05/24/2011 8:57:52 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Jaguarmike

White guilt.


50 posted on 05/24/2011 9:06:40 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: Jaguarmike
What do you mean by “layers”?

I think that's a joke. The so-called "real" birth certificate was found to be a carefully made forgery built up layer-by-layer in a photoshop program or something.

51 posted on 05/24/2011 9:07:23 PM PDT by FreeKeys (DemocRAT campaign policy: Lie. DemocRAT governing policy: steal, reward, punish and enslave.)
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To: Jaguarmike

Okay, I won’t tell you it’s because Americans are stupid; it’s because Americans are ignorant morons.

Any better?


52 posted on 05/24/2011 9:10:12 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (e)
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To: Steelfish
"Yes- we have an iliiterate and tribal voting class. We are on a rapid path to Third World status and if 0 is re-elected ( the odds appear very high), the USA will no longer be what it was. RIP."

Look at the history of Britain. The enervating Second World War followed by several strong doses of socialism and what have you got? A third word country full of left leaning immigrants and a dependent population that will keep voting itself benefits from the Public Purse. Thatcher did not reverse it even though she was very good for the country, and the current PM huffs and puffs but is largely ineffective.

The only genius of socialism is the speed with which it creates its electorate by taxing them nothing and giving them multiple handouts. Dependency is a wonderful thing to behold.

53 posted on 05/24/2011 9:11:58 PM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: Jaguarmike
Don't tell me it's because Americans are stupid;

They are.

54 posted on 05/24/2011 10:54:49 PM PDT by Sarajevo (Avoid arguments with your wife about lifting the toilet seat by simply using the sink.)
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To: GlockThe Vote

AMEN!! 50% PAY NO TAXES....and a LOT of them get MONEY BACK!!


55 posted on 05/25/2011 4:10:34 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Its simple math. This is why I laugh when I hear freepers think obama is a goner in 2012.

Half of this country are worthless parasites and grifters looking for a handout.

Just go to any large gathering of people and look around. There is your answer why obama is still so popular.

Sad but true.


56 posted on 05/25/2011 4:42:31 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (F U B O ! ! !)
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To: Jaguarmike

Mostly because he gets all the attention. The Republicans are out to lunch and too divided to win much of anything.

Meanwhile Obama is over in the UK pimping the communist New World Order and so called “doomocracy” or better called the end of liberty.


57 posted on 05/25/2011 4:51:19 AM PDT by dforest
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To: laconic

Americans are not going to tolerate the Republican party even so much as touching Medicare while continuing to send 1.3 billion dollars a year to Pakistan as “aid” and 500 billion dollars to Africa to fight aids.

We contributed to the Medicare program, this is not welfare. Every month, the government takes a chunk out of my paycheck in the name of Medicare.

If the scum in Washington stole the money, well that’s one thing. If we’re broke, well, that’s the way it is. But don’t tell granny she has to take a Medicare cut when we’re still printing money and sending it to people who want to kill us overseas.

The Republicans *must* prioritize cuts. This means that useless federal agencies and foreign aid must go *first*. Then and only then can Medicare be on the table.

This is the deep flaw in the Ryan plan.


58 posted on 05/25/2011 6:34:41 AM PDT by Yet_Again
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