Posted on 03/06/2010 7:06:11 AM PST by marstegreg
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -17
“The truth is there for those willing to pay attention, but they’d rather watch American Idol or some other pap than pay attention to what’s happening in our country.”
Give them a chance, If they are getting their news from the MSM, they are just confused right now. Don’t forget, people really wanted him to be everything he said he was. He’s like a bad boyfriend, all your friends see it, but you don’t. I have faith people will catch on. Look how many have already.
This is key. As Obama's "strong support" goes down, people can increasingly talk trash about him without risk of contradiction. Outside minority and extreme leftist circles, the critic/supporter ratio is probably very high. As more people speak out against him, his support will continue to go down.
So many of our "conservative" pundits are trying to sell the idea that what Obama wants is the European model of socialism--which is bad enough--but in my opinion, what he really wants is something much more like the Venezuelan or even North Korean model. I think we're in for a rough time of it.
I think that if he succeeds, the people who will be most surprised will be the fawning media. They think they'll have places of honor in such a regime, but historically, media types are the first to be purged. They'd best re-think all this support.
The tide might be turning, but it might not be soon enough to stop this runaway train.
cool.
DOW was up this week, which raises a question: are presidential approval/disapproval polls correlated to market performance?
But....see this: www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx
The daily focus on Strongly Support/Oppose continually misleads and misdirects. Strong support matters little other then at election time, as it indicates which side is more likely to actually vote. This far from the election it is the overall 1 to 100 scale that matters, and which we daily mostly ignore.
Today that is 45% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. Fifty-four percent (54%) disapprove.
Allowing for statistical noise, it’s been at that plateau for a while now.
Yup. I've also noticed he's not on magazine covers like he used to be. For the first six months or so after the election, I was very busy in the supermarket checkout lanes, covering his face with other magazine covers. Now it's just full of typical celebrity covers again.
The 25% that strongly approve ... those are the ones that concern me.
They think they’ll have places of honor in such a regime, but historically, media types are the first to be purged.
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The same could be said of teachers, Jews, Hollywood, authors, and intellectuals, all avid supporters of Marxism. They are supporting their own destruction.
The 25% that strongly approve ... those are the ones that concern me.
About 20% are socialists anyway, there’s only about 5% we can still convince. I think that pretty good.
Remember FReepers, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Castro(s), etc., etc., STILL have their followers... It never ends really.
My Yuppie 35-year-old daughter, who doesn’t vote (except occasionally at my urging), is oblivious to the dismantling of America by the Demonrats. She says following the news or politics is too depressing/boring so she does not. With a family income of about 90K she and hubby will be prime revenue sources for the Obamanites. I try to tell her this but am cut off in mid-sentence. Too depressing, she says.
There was magic?
- You're not alone. Even though you've been marginalized by the “old media” and the White House, your general opinions on politics are the majority.
- Most Americans tend to be pro-liberty and at least somewhat conservative
- Keynesian economic theory is a disaster, and most Americans know it
- The “old media” has lost a lot of credibility, and is losing their ability to control the political debate
- Grassroots efforts (like Tea Party) can have a more significant impact on public opinion and national political dialogue than multi-million dollar political ad campaigns, months of liberal “news” media propaganda, and the power of the White House, combined.
- The Democrat Party has put itself in a lose-lose scenario. Pass “healthcare” and they turn 80% of Americans against them. Fail to pass healthcare and they will have angered most of the country, exposed a lot of evil intent and internal party corruption, discouraged even their liberal base, and got nothing out of it.
- Having an attractive personality may be enough to get a man elected president, but a poor leader is quickly exposed, and while it may take a few months, most Americans recognize a poor leader when they see one.
” the other guy said “no, the magic is gone”. Sucker!”
These kind of people have the mentality to do one night sexual hookups for the rush of it.
They voted with the same mindset.
Remember 40% of Americans pay no federal income tax and receive federal benefits. That is a pretty solid base for any Dem. Second, people forget that Bush’s low numbers were in part a result of conservatives who’d had it with his non conservative agenda, immigration reform for one. So it’s going to be hard to drive these numbers below 40. The thing to look for in Rasmussen is maintaining the balance between the haloed one’s total approve and strongly disapprove. As long as strongly disapprove is in the 40s, reelection will be difficult.
No doubt she follows some of the many “self-improvement” gurus, who all seem to say to turn off the news. How convenient. An ignorant populace is lots easier to control, eh? Sure the news is depressing. And people who sit back and ignore what’s happening to us are making it MORE depressing.
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