45% for Obama, 49% Against – If Election Were Held Right Now (Rasmussen)

Rasmussen Reports ^ | November 3, 2009

[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.

[Plumres]

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.
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I am hopeing for a lot more than chipping. I hope we win 70+ seat in the House!!

[Tzimisce]

I’m sure Fudd is on an ACORN voter roll somewhere....

[Tzimisce]

Of course, that tent would be blowing away in the wind since no one would be in it....

[Red Steel]

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.

A good argument to appeal the 19th Amendment.

[Plumres]

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.
A good argument to appeal the 19th Amendment.
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Women have voted Democratic in EVERY Presidential election since 1940. This is a fact that can be verified.

[RipSawyer]

“As in that contest, women are more supportive of Obama than men.”
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That settles the question of which sex is smarter.

[RipSawyer]

How about Bill Gates and Warren Buffett together couldn’t bribe me to vote for Obama even if I knew he would lose anyway?

[4woodenboats]

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

You'd have to eat a mini mart's stock of fast food (daily)along with a number of other, more drastic camouflaging techniques to pretend you're DeDe.

[lilycicero]

Come on...you could be a delegate too...and we can go to the conventions....woohoo...get Girlene to go!

[lawyerchik1]

I’m not sure if you caught this on Rush Limbaugh’s show on Thursday, January 21, 2010, but this was from the transcript of his show regarding the Chris Matthews/David Axelrod exchange:

“AXELROD: They’re standing with the insurance companies. So they can talk the talk, but when it comes time to walking the walk, they don’t do it, and we’re — I’m — happy to have that contest, uhh, next — uhh, uhh — next November if the president chooses to run in 2012, and we’ll see who the real deal is when it comes to standing up for working people.”

He said “...IF the president chooses to run in 2012....” Something’s going on with that! I’m not sure what, but that seems pretty unusual, considering that this clown has been in office for just barely a year. Anybody have any insight?