Posted on 09/04/2009 6:26:47 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11 (see trends).
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Bummer. I want to see this speech-in-school fiasco reflected. I’ll bet it tanks again after the long weekend.
The school thing hasn’t had time to sink yet to be reflected in the polls although I’m not sure what they’ll look like over a holiday weekend.
I do believe that the 27% Strongly Approve percentage ties the previous low. Obama is still heading down.
Hmmm... "joint session of congress". Kinda gives new meaning to the phrase "all wee weed up".
I can’t see that strongly approve number going much lower. They are Obama’s base. One in three Dem voters is either black or Hispanic. Most of them will stick with Obama regardless. Obama still has a 97% approval rating among blacks.
Expect Obama's ratings to go up over the Labor Day weekend, as the disapproving Middle Class goes off to places where they are unavailable to pollsters, but go back down after Tuesday.
I actually agree with that.
His strongly approve numbers have been in the 30 plus/minus 2 or so range for some time. I think that is going to hold for the short run. Longer term it could fall with continuing bad economic news which I consider a likelihood. His strongly disapprove numbers have also been reasonably steady at 40 plus/minus 2 or so. But this one should increase with time as the Independents wise up to this fraud of a president. So I see Obama going from a -10 to a -15 over the next few months unless there is some amazing turn-around event that I don't foresee (but Rahm is carefully plotting).
And counting...
His "strong approve" is down to 27%, tied for "lowest ever" with 8/23 when his index was -14. The "strong disapproves" is 38%, down from the peak of 42% on 8/30. Some part of that latter might be from people being on vacation. Late next week are the numbers to watch.
The same thing is going to happen to the zero that happened to Bush. Once he goes below 50% consistently in all polls he will compromise in order to get his poll #’s back up, but instead what will happen is he will start losing his base, which will cause his #’s to sink even lower.
Something about the Internet doesn't seem to allow Presidents to recover lost voters unless something big like 9-11 or the capture of bin laden happens.
Looks like he’s settled into double-digit negatives for the duration.
Yes he will always have a strong underpinning from the Baraqqi coalition.
That’s why it’s not a slam dunk that the guy loses in 2012.
There’s a lot of votes that aren’t “in play”
Minorities
Illegals
Union members
Dead voters
Idiot liberals
If we have another 9/11, Obama’s poll numbers will plummet given his returning back to the Clinton strategy of treating terrorism as a criminal matter, his going after the CIA, and closing Gitmo. Americans will then conclude that they were safer under Bush.
I’m hopeful it will dip lower.
I have read that it takes about four days for such an incident to be fully reflected in the polls. Rasmussen uses a rolling average of multi-day results so it we may not see a full impact for another few days.
Then again, Obama's Big Brotherism will receive a boost in coverage on Tuesday when he gives his speech to the captive school children of America. So we may not have the final numbers until next weekend.
Without a doubt, Oba-Mao has scrapped the speech he originally intended to Teleprompt to the kids. The one he will give will be carefully designed to appeal to the parents of America, to undo the public relations damage and to go on the offensive. It will be more than innocuous. It will attempt to humiliate and shame his detractors for ever questioning his pure intentions. The duplicitous and conniving POS does nothing without calculating the political value he can get out of it.
IIRC, these polls are a three day rolling average, so the effect of one recent day will be diluted.
Look for the effect of the school flap to show up next week.
The important number is the percentage of independents who are moving away from this catastrophe in an Armani. That is where the elections will be won or lost.
...if that number gets to 60% or more, he and his party are toast. Vince
“IMO, it cannot drop below 32-35% of the voting population.”
I agree. The Kool-aide demographic will stay steady at 33% or so. A poll last year in Russia found that 33% still prefered STALIN....there is a core that will stay with Obama even if he executes kittens on live TV.
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