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WashPo: Obama Off to Solid Start, Poll Finds (Release of Memos Reveals Deep Partisan Split)
The Washington Post ^ | April 26, 2009 | By Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta

Posted on 04/26/2009 10:50:29 AM PDT by MaestroLC

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Obama is at 69% approval in this poll. Baloney...

The internals:

4/24/09 - Dem=35% | Rep=21% | Indy= 38% | Other=5%

And regarding why those memos were released:

WaPo: Release of torture memos political

(quote) A source familiar with White House views said Obama’s advisers are further convinced that letting the public know exactly what the past administration sanctioned will undermine what they see as former vice president Richard B. Cheney’s effort to “box Obama in” by claiming that the executive order [banning secret prisons and interrogation tactics] heightened the risk of a terrorist attack.

Looks like that Obama strategy has backfired.

1 posted on 04/26/2009 10:50:29 AM PDT by MaestroLC
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To: MaestroLC

if it was bush who did it to a democrat, the memo released would be treated as another scandal e.g plamegate


2 posted on 04/26/2009 10:52:40 AM PDT by 4rcane
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These polls are proof that the “dumbing down of America” gig worked for the D’RATS.


3 posted on 04/26/2009 10:52:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Proud charter member of Napolitano's rightwing, nutcase American, watch list.)
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To: MaestroLC

I note it is always the Post that finds and publishes the favorable figures.


4 posted on 04/26/2009 10:55:02 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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Obama is at 69% approval in this poll. Baloney

I don't get it either but I believe it 100 percent after the last two elections we arrogantly ignored and laughed at polls just to take it in the ass...I totally believe that 69 percent of American believe that Obama has done a good job. If we continue to look at polls like a joke, we will continue to lose. Americans are really stupid right now. The one million Tea Party participants represent 1/2 percent of American population...If you take another 29 percent who agree with the Tea Party participants than you have your 29.5 percent who are against Obama. The rest approve and there's your 69 percent approval rate. The 1/2 percent don't know one way or the other. lol.

5 posted on 04/26/2009 10:56:09 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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Indy= 38%

That alone means this poll is concocted horse$hit.


6 posted on 04/26/2009 10:56:23 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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WashPo: Obama Off to Solid Start,...

Wretch!, Barf!!

7 posted on 04/26/2009 10:58:41 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Proud Veteran - Sworn to Defend The Constitution! - Caution: That makes me a Right-Wing Extremist.)
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Yup.


8 posted on 04/26/2009 10:59:17 AM PDT by JennysCool (Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. -- Wyatt Earp)
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If you pick a 100 people that you know do you find that 69% of them approve of Obama? Do you approve of Obama? Do you support his socialism, his left wing liberalism, his defeatism, and his appeasement?
9 posted on 04/26/2009 11:04:06 AM PDT by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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Anyone really believe BHO is more popular amongs Indies than Dems?


10 posted on 04/26/2009 11:05:01 AM PDT by bigbob
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WaPo must be trying to set up his Wed. speech, and make up to BHO for Ripping him a New one on the “Torture” lies last week.

Heard today BHO has been on the Cover of Time 18 Times already. The Obama Times must be the Replacement for the NY Times folding in a few months.

Hey, MSM...If you Covered the TEA PARTIES in NEWS PRINT....100,000’s of papers would have sold as participants bought copies as a Personal remembrance of their Participation.

The MSM Blew the Opportunity from Sea to Shining Sea, by Ignoring Americans in Action.


11 posted on 04/26/2009 11:05:39 AM PDT by 4Speed
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That is true. I don’t know how many they asked. I am just saying that polls have been correct for four years now.


12 posted on 04/26/2009 11:07:51 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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Do you really expect any just coverage from the liberal media? The liberal media will never ever justly cover conservatives and will never ever go after Obama and his socialists. This fact is as true as 1+1=2.

Calling the liberal media MSM and Drive by Media is doing them a great service. Just call them liberal media because that is who they are.

13 posted on 04/26/2009 11:10:37 AM PDT by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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My kid's favorite soup, up from $1.69 a can to $1.99, almost 18%, in one hop. Today, this morning, April 26, 2009. Laundry detergent at BJ's wholesale club... price the same! But, the 172 oz. container costs (last week) what a 300 oz container cost a year ago.
14 posted on 04/26/2009 11:10:51 AM PDT by Steely Tom (RKBA: last line of defense against vote fraud)
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Obama = smoke and mirrors.


15 posted on 04/26/2009 11:12:01 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: napscoordinator
I don't get it either but I believe it 100 percent after the last two elections we arrogantly ignored and laughed at polls just to take it in the ass...I totally believe that 69 percent of American believe that Obama has done a good job. If we continue to look at polls like a joke, we will continue to lose.

I've often noted the tendency to laugh off any poll that showed results FReepers did not want to believe and encouraged folks to get real. However, that does not mean that the MSM never manipulates polls.

Look at the internals listed in the first post. Compare them to Ras data from late last year:

In November, 41.4% of Americans considered themselves to be Democrats, 33.8% said they were Republicans, and 24.7% were not affiliated with either major political party.

No way do I believe the WaPo data on party affiliation over Ras. Moreover the WaPo liars have been pulling this stunt for years now.

The RATS do not have nearly that big of an advantage in party affiliation, and although I have no data, I suspect that the gap has grown smaller since November as the public has become more fed up with the RATS. The generic Congressional ballot is now even, suggesting that the infatuation with RATS was short-lived.

I am more pro than con when it comes to polls but I do not believe this one. I think The One's approval among the people who matter--likely voters--is barely over 50%, and only so because Americans tend to give a new president a break during the first months of his presidency.

16 posted on 04/26/2009 11:13:02 AM PDT by freespirited (Is this a nation of laws or a nation of Democrats? -- Charles Krauthammer)
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“Anyone really believe BHO is more popular amongs Indies than Dems?”

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Anyone really believe “independents” make up 38% of the population?

Who are these people? As an “independent” what are their core beliefs? Do they have any?

I’m a rock-ribbed conservative, but I think I’ll start calling myself an “independent” or a “moderate”, so that both parties can start catering to me.


17 posted on 04/26/2009 11:13:35 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: napscoordinator
Not all polls have been correct for the last 4 years. Some were some were not. However when a poll greatly under samples Republicans such as this one then it is a wrong poll, it is that simple. The difference between Republicans and Democrats in the last election was 7 points not 17 points as in this poll.
18 posted on 04/26/2009 11:13:42 AM PDT by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: MaestroLC
The Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll indicates that this is the usual Washington Post totally fabricated propaganda:


19 posted on 04/26/2009 11:14:16 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Chains you can believe in.)
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When you want to cheat in a poll you increase the number of independents and call most independents from blue states and blue counties.


20 posted on 04/26/2009 11:14:46 AM PDT by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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