[Girlene]

Rasmussen has MAO-bama at -12 (Sat) - how in the wide world of sports did he GAIN 5 points?

Because he picked up approval from democrat voters after his SOTU. Independents are continuing to shift away from Dem's, obama. If you look at the numbers by party, dem's are the party of stupid. From the article:

On all the points raised in the president’s speech, there is a huge partisan divide. On the question of cutting taxes for 95% of Americans, hardly any Republicans or unaffiliated voters believe it's true. However, Democrats are evenly divided: 34% say the tax cuts have been delivered, 29% say they haven’t, and 38% are not sure.

Hardly any Repub's or Indy's believe he has cut taxes where 72% of dem's either don't know or say he has. Now that is just plain stupid. They are easily influenced by his words, and voila, his polls go up.....I don't think it's enough to save him or the dem's though.

[April Lexington]

Hardly any Repub's or Indy's believe he has cut taxes where 72% of dem's either don't know or say he has. Now that is just plain stupid. They are easily influenced by his words, and voila, his polls go up.....I don't think it's enough to save him or the dem's though.

Agreed. People should be able to tell if they are paying more taxes or not...

[meyer]

Hardly any Repub's or Indy's believe he has cut taxes where 72% of dem's either don't know or say he has.

I can tell you exactly why some dems say that he has cut taxes. The long term capital gains tax rate dropped from 5% to 0% for people in the 15% and lower tax bracket. That will rise to 10% for the 15% tax bracket in 2011, and to 20% for all other tax brackets in 2011. I'm certain that the democRAT talking points have stressed the short-term reduction in capital gains taxes for the lower income brackets in their weekly literature.

I don't know of any other actual tax cuts initiated by the rats in the last year, but I do know that they're set to let the Bush tax cuts expire.

[greeneyes]

Just wait until April 15, some of those dems are in for a suprise.

[manc]

you know Dems are leaving him, my MIL from MA is a life time Dem voter but has had enough of him and the Dems now.

It seems to me that those who still think he is the messiah are college students who are just too young to understand that words are not enough plus they do not live in their real world yet with bills, kids, jobs, taxes etc
there is the mostly black population who will always stay with him.
The perverts because they have no where to go to pass their sick agenda on.
and finally those old time Dems who have not understood that the Dem party is not that party they grew up with