Posted on 10/16/2009 6:27:49 AM PDT by markomalley
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 28% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11 (see trends).
Forty-six percent (46%) have a favorable opinion of Vice President Joe Biden.
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates also available on Twitter and Facebook.
Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That figure has stayed in a very narrow range between 47% and 52% every day for six weeks. Fifty-one percent (51%) now disapprove (see recent demographic highlights).
They will be back and full of “concern”
Not true. Less than 30% strong approval on 7/12-7/18, 7/26, 7/29-7/31, 8/13, 8/22-8/25, 9/2-9/8, 9/30-10/3, and 10/7-10/9.
The point being is that, for now, he's stabilized. As somebody else said, the next "big thing" will be when the Bush-derangement starts really wearing thin among the rest of the folks (except the 'droids, of course)...or if we have some significant national emotional event.
Thanks. I hadn't realized it had gone that far.
WTF?
The far left is mad at him about health care, New Orlenas, the War and so forth. He is between a rock and a hard place. NO president can last long being in the middle. And I think the far left is far worse an enemy than the far right. The far left knows how to destroy, enjoys destroying and will eat him up.
If he moves more to the middle,,a pipe dream I know but something he may do to stay in the WH with the perks, he will pick up some independents. So I think his ratings will stay where they are.
Whatever he loses on one side he gains on the other.
I wonder if he'll soon be "so ronery".
What I meant was no president can last long at either end of the spectrum. I didn’t mean he couldn’t last long in the middle. He has to get support from independents or moderates or what people here call rinos. A term I dont like because it makes conservatives easy to pick off.
Obama is the leader of the far left. He is a Marxist. Any so called “move to the middle” is just a transparent scam.
I can’t believe the rollback of the Bush tax cuts in 2010 doesn’t register as a big, middle-class tax hike. But will it register in time for the 2010 elections? Depends on how well the Republicans play it.
They have him locked in a basement closet...causes me to have a favorable opinion of him too.
We shouldn’t get so excited about the daily fluctuations. For the past two months, Ø’s approval numbers ahve been very stable. I believe he’s reached his baseline as far as people changing their opinion about him - those who like him will like him no matter what; those who see him as the radical leftist that he is will not change their minds. Unless he does something blatantly appalling (appalling beyond doubt even to the brain-dead Øzombies), he will probably stay in this range until the end of his 4 year term.
But the recent plummet does make a nice graphic.
Except for this fact. Dear Reader is being propped up by the false notion that Bush, not him, is to blame for this economy.
In every poll the majority of Americans still blame Bush for this economy. 0 is getting the benefit of the doubt from the "let's give the new guy a chance" moderates.
The number who believe this notion is steadily the longer the Economy stay stagnate. In the next year most people will switch from holding Bush accountable to holding 0 accountable for this economy.
When that happens this favorable number is going DOWN
It had gone to 27% a couple of days earlier in the year. But 28% is close to bottom so far.
I cant believe the rollback of the Bush tax cuts in 2010 doesnt register as a big, middle-class tax hike. But will it register in time for the 2010 elections? Depends on how well the Republicans play it.
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Recent history shows that the Pubbies have not been very good at playing that game. Maybe Sarah needs to explain it on her Facebook page.
But if everyone filing their taxes by April sees the proof in the pudding, it will register.
Yes, but wouldn’t that be April, 2011?
I’d love to see it become part of Sarah’s book tour talk, as that’d really spread it around.
Thank you for the graphs.
Can you post the daily index for the last week?
I was sickened to see 0 open MNF this week. One can’t even tune him out and watch a football game these days.
How exactly would the "far right" be worse in any way? I guess the preliminary question for you should be how you characterize the "right."
We have to completely reject the cleverly crafted falacy of a "spectrum" of political and social philosophy that we've swallowed hook, line and sinker. Conservatism, what I'm assuming you mean by "right", was once firmly, and rightly, the default worldview and foundation of American society, not "moderatism." Leftism is the usurper in this current crises, not just another philosophical world view to choose from. The closer you get to leftism, the more a free society suffers and rots.
Is it possible to be too conservative? Does a little leftism need to be incorporated into the mix to make life more palatable?
I liken it to physical health. Do we want to be as physically healthy as possible, or is a little bodily illness in the health "spectrum" acceptable and even desireable? Leftism is the "illness" in a free, Judeo-Christian society.
Don’t forget folks, the so-called ivy league educated suburban elite dems are starting to realize that bammie and kankles have made things immeasurably worse on the foreign policy front. Both have dumped “human rights” as an issue with Russia, China, and Iran, and the dear leader has told the Dali Lama to take a hike. I think some of his post Nobel prize radiance (a beautifully scored irony) is starting wear off with his educated base. This is an erosion of base, not swing voters!!! Once he looses them, then all of a sudden he isn’t the smartest one in the room anymore. That will leave him with race and unions. If he doesn’t throw the gays a bone soon they may depart the plantation.
“Yes, but wouldnt that be April, 2011?”
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Hmmm, I think you’re right about that.
>> -12% is about the lowest I recall <<
But in fact, it got down as low as minus fourteen.
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