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45% for Obama, 49% Against – If Election Were Held Right Now (Rasmussen)
Rasmussen Reports ^ | November 3, 2009

Posted on 11/03/2009 8:44:05 AM PST by reaganaut1

Americans are a little less enthusiastic about the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama this time around.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 45% of adults say they would be at least somewhat likely to vote for Obama if he was up for reelection right now. Forty-nine percent (49%) say they would be unlikely to vote for the president’s reelection.

Thirty-four percent (34%) would be very likely to support Obama, while 40% say they would be not at all likely to do so.

The question did not specify whom the president would be running against and also was asked of all adults as opposed to just likely voters. Obama carried 53% of the vote nationally over Republican candidate John McCain’s 46% in last November’s election.

As in that contest, women are more supportive of Obama than men. Adults 18 to 29 are more likely to vote for the president than those who are older. Ninety percent (90%) of African-Americans say they would be at least somewhat likely to vote for Obama, compared to 36% of whites.

Among adults not affiliated with either major political party, those not at all likely to vote for the president’s reelection outnumber by two-to-one those who would be very likely to support him.

Forty-two percent (42%) of all Americans rate the job Obama has been doing as president as good or excellent. Thirty-seven percent (37%) say he is doing a poor job.

Obama's overall job approval rating in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll – based on responses from likely voters - fell below 50% for the first time in July. A month-by-month review of the president’s ratings shows that they held steady in August and September before declining slightly last month.

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama2012; polls; rasmussen
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To: MrB; WashingtonSource

I wonder if all these single women who vote Dem do so because of the abortion issue.

As Ann Coulter wrote, they support their right to have unprotected sex with men they don’t like.


21 posted on 11/03/2009 9:13:43 AM PST by Canedawg (FUBO)
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To: WashingtonSource

I actually witnessed a single white female walk out of my Church a couple weeks ago. This was during the Sermon about how abortion is a sin, etc., etc. It was so funny - you should have seen the indignant, horrified look on her face. I looked right at her and smiled.

Hopefully she’ll realize someday the error in her ways and come back.


22 posted on 11/03/2009 9:16:44 AM PST by khnyny (Too much power in too few hands is never a good thing.)
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To: Canedawg
I wonder if all these single women who vote Dem do so because of the abortion issue.

That's only a minor part of it, IMHO.
The bigger drive is the hardwired need to be taken care of and provided for, as women are created to be the helper and completer of the man.

They've been told by our society (ie, lied to), that this desire is bad and degrading, so they reject real men, and replace them with societal and gov't institutions.

23 posted on 11/03/2009 9:16:53 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: annieokie
I prefer to talk with men, most liberal women a simply shallow dipsticks.

Same here, and I'm a woman, lol.
24 posted on 11/03/2009 9:19:26 AM PST by khnyny (Too much power in too few hands is never a good thing.)
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To: Girlene; 4woodenboats

I need to infiltrate the electoral college. I can pull a reverse DeDe.


25 posted on 11/03/2009 9:19:40 AM PST by lilycicero (Is it possible???)
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To: WOSG

“36% support among white Americans.

Wow, that is low.”

But since there are so few white Americans left, it doesn’t much matter.

Thanks Teddy Kennedy! You murderer. D-Hell


26 posted on 11/03/2009 9:24:50 AM PST by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: reaganaut1

I would not let Obama be in charge of my pet rock!


27 posted on 11/03/2009 9:25:51 AM PST by Plumres
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To: Tzimisce
It could Michael Moore on the Republican ticket the way things are going....

Elmer Fudd, 2012!!!

28 posted on 11/03/2009 9:25:56 AM PST by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: reaganaut1

even if the opponent was McLame?


29 posted on 11/03/2009 9:32:29 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: WOSG

That's racist!!!

30 posted on 11/03/2009 9:40:45 AM PST by Vasilli22
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To: lilycicero

LOL. Go for it, but first you need to invent a time machine.


31 posted on 11/03/2009 9:44:10 AM PST by Girlene
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy; Clintonfatigued

If Obama is doing this poorly in a poll of adults, imagine how he’d do in a poll of likely voters.

Only 36% of whites adults are at least somewhat likely to vote for Obama in 2012. Holy unelectability, Batman!


32 posted on 11/03/2009 9:51:19 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he will protect you?)
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To: annieokie

“”””what are the women’s excuse for siding with the marxist muslim?””

My cousin, a Republican from San Francisco, voted for Zero, but is sick of what she did. I asked why, and the answer was “didn’t want Bush lite”, and wanted change. Unfortunately, it was not the change promised.


33 posted on 11/03/2009 9:56:10 AM PST by gunner03
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To: annieokie

“”””what are the women’s excuse for siding with the marxist muslim?””

My cousin, a Republican from San Francisco, voted for Zero, but is sick of what she did. I asked why, and the answer was “didn’t want Bush lite”, and wanted change. Unfortunately, it was not the change promised.


34 posted on 11/03/2009 9:58:23 AM PST by gunner03
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To: gunner03
Your cousins response like many other Zero backers, was only something she heard and repeated.

When you ask them, what was it that Bush did that made you so mad? The sound like their leader, Hm, Uh, Ah, Hmmm, Uh, Ah, well, uh, the war, uh. The they turn tail and run from you as they know another question is coming. Like "What about the War?" LOL

35 posted on 11/03/2009 10:05:39 AM PST by annieokie (i)
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To: reaganaut1

And these are likely voters. Still, it depends on whether the large electoral states will still turn against the faux Messiah. It is necessary for Pubs to advance their conservCenterright agenda and pull in more Indies, Reagan Dems, and Libertarians to chip away at all those huge Blue State electoral majorities. Prayerfully, 2010 will start the chipping.


36 posted on 11/03/2009 10:05:39 AM PST by phillyfanatic
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To: riri

We’d definitely make out like bandits on the hot dog concessions...


37 posted on 11/03/2009 10:13:33 AM PST by txhurl (It's only a matter of time before FreeRepublic has this fraud's scalp on our lodge pole.)
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To: annieokie

You are so right. Most of my women friends think that voting Democrat means they are sooooo compassionate and tolerant. They are so blissfully ignorant, it makes me ill. They are more interested in Hollywood gossip than politics or anything else of substance.


38 posted on 11/03/2009 10:26:30 AM PST by KansasGirl
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To: gunner03
That's a big part of the problem. People just don't think today.

You'll notice in the past several elections the chant of “change” (they even added hope this time!!!) was predominant, but they never, ever spell out for the electorate just what is the nature of that “change” they are proposing.

This is one reason why Obama’s election proved the right guy won.

It seems once every generation, the electorate must relearn the reasons why we don't put Democrats (who are now in reality nothing more than fronts for the CP-USA) in office, or any position of even semi-importance.

Since that cycle lasts anywhere from 10 - 25 years, an intractable truth has been shown: Even as the country struggles to recover from the excesses of the previous Democratic administration/Congressional majority, the D/CP-USA continues to march ever-more leftward, without pause, totally ignorant of the causes of their last defeat and the circumstances they and the rest of the country find themselves in.

We need America, especially it's young people, to relearn once again just why socialism/communism is such a bad thing. (It doesn't work!)

As an extra added bonus, perhaps a sizable chunk of graduates, such as they are, from the nation's public school system will realize the bill of goods they were sold, education-wise. (I've always felt that your real education starts the moment you get out of school, and it doesn't stop till you leave this plane of existence. I tell that to all the kids I know.)

The next time you hear someone utter “I'm votin’ fer change!”, just tell them the turnip truck will be coming by soon to pick them back up.

(Although “change” today would not be a bad thing!)

CA....

39 posted on 11/03/2009 10:39:59 AM PST by Chances Are (Whew! It seems I've at last found that silly grin!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

That gentleman reminds me of a tortoise:)


40 posted on 11/03/2009 10:46:53 AM PST by jim35 (A racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.)
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