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Poll: Obama earns nation's trust [barf alert]
Politico ^ | 04/14/2009 | Andy Barr

Posted on 04/14/2009 8:39:57 AM PDT by freed0misntfree

Three months into his presidency, Barack Obama stands out as perhaps the most trusted figure in American politics.

In a new Public Strategies Inc./POLITICO national survey of 1,000 registered voters, Obama outdistances figures on both the left and the right in earning the public’s trust, with two-thirds of respondents saying they trust the president “to identify the right solutions to the problems we face as a nation.”

Of those who said they trust the president, 31 percent said they trust him “a great deal.” An additional 35 percent said they have “some” trust that Obama will find the correct solution. Thirty-one percent said they trust Obama either “not very much” or “not at all.”

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 31percent; 31percentonly; divisive; potemkinpoll; trustedbywho
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1 posted on 04/14/2009 8:39:57 AM PDT by freed0misntfree
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To: freed0misntfree

Whatever.

Just keep telling yourself that, MSM.


2 posted on 04/14/2009 8:42:17 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (Conservatives see untapped potential. Liberals see Tapped-out hopelessness.)
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To: freed0misntfree
Three months into his presidency, Barack Obama stands out as perhaps the most trusted figure in American politics

WTF?

3 posted on 04/14/2009 8:42:30 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: freed0misntfree

Yep - the deluded masses are crazy for him - worldwide.


4 posted on 04/14/2009 8:43:43 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: freed0misntfree; All

And which nation would that be?


5 posted on 04/14/2009 8:44:54 AM PDT by quesney
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To: Puppage

“Barack Obama stands out as perhaps the most trusted figure in American politics,”

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Trusted?

I don’t remember a nationwide wave of Tea Parties under President Bush.

Then there is that historically precipitous dive in the stock market...


6 posted on 04/14/2009 8:44:59 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: freed0misntfree

“Three months into his presidency, Barack Obama stands out as perhaps the most trusted figure in American politics”

If that is the case our politicians are not very trustworthy.

My tea party sign:

WTF 0bama?!


7 posted on 04/14/2009 8:46:15 AM PDT by I Hate Obama (Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made- Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: EyeGuy
I don’t remember a nationwide wave of Tea Parties under President Bush.

That's because conservatives were too busy supporting him to oppose him.

8 posted on 04/14/2009 8:46:22 AM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: freed0misntfree

“1,000 registered voters”

I could get a majority of 1000 voters to say the sky is green.

Polls are lies.


9 posted on 04/14/2009 8:46:48 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out (click my name)
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To: freed0misntfree

sigh....I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to convince folks that, though Obama is a problem, the real issue is our fellow countrymen.


10 posted on 04/14/2009 8:47:43 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: freed0misntfree

They polled 1,000, but only 215 were Republicans. Uh, huh, that’s a reliable poll. Sure it is.


11 posted on 04/14/2009 8:47:47 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: freed0misntfree

Forgot to add the URL for the survey:

http://www.publicstrategiesptm.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ptmq2_analysis.pdf


12 posted on 04/14/2009 8:48:29 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: freed0misntfree

Hey Hey Hey Obama how many teenagers did you kill today


13 posted on 04/14/2009 8:49:05 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: freed0misntfree
with two-thirds of respondents saying they trust the president “to identify the right solutions to the problems we face as a nation.”

Let us just talk simple math:

47% of the people voted against this man and all what he has done since he became President is to prove to them without an iota of doubt that they were absolutely right in voting against him because he confirmed to them through all his actions that he is a socialist, a left wing liberal, and a defeatist and appeaser on national security and foreign policy.

For him to have two third of the people trust means that 30% of the those who voted against him are now supporting him and that all the people who voted for him are still supporting him. This is an impossibility at least for the first part of the assumption.

Now at least 10% of his voters were Republicans and Conservatives who voted for him because they were angry at the Republican Party, and/or at President Bush, and/or John McCain. They never voted for him because they trust him or love his socialism, his left wing liberalism, or his defeatism and appeasement. I am certain that most of these 10% Republicans/Conservatives who voted for him are now badly regretting their vote.

There is no way in any objective poll that two third of the population trust Obama.

14 posted on 04/14/2009 8:49:33 AM PDT by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: freed0misntfree
They sure did not poll me!

Here's my vote....

Fail stuff here

15 posted on 04/14/2009 8:50:56 AM PDT by Seeking the truth (Ocents.com - Obama "Zero" faux postage stamps, tees, mousepads, bumper stickers)
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To: freed0misntfree

If you only trust him “some” you ain’t gonna vote for him next time. I hate the way these phony polls try and puff their results


16 posted on 04/14/2009 8:51:05 AM PDT by the long march
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To: anniegetyourgun

It’s true, he is very popular. Did you hear the whiny woman on Rush Monday telling how much faith she had in Oprah’s Choice? It’s a real phenomenon. His supporters will fight to the death if needed.


17 posted on 04/14/2009 8:51:15 AM PDT by Theodore R. (GWB is gone: Now the American sheeple can sleep at night!)
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To: freed0misntfree
MSM
18 posted on 04/14/2009 8:52:28 AM PDT by NMEwithin
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Polls may be lies, but Americans like Obama.

Americans will continue to like Obama until the MSM is taken off the air, on television and radio news, and taken out of print, on the pages of your local newspaper carrying wire stories.

Americans not only like Obama, they like socialism and the nanny state. We have tipped. It is over. It is finished.


19 posted on 04/14/2009 8:53:24 AM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: Seeking the truth
My tea party shirt


20 posted on 04/14/2009 8:55:03 AM PDT by libh8er
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