Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (-10) (Thank goodness)

Rasmussen Reports ^ | Apr. 1 2010 | Scott Rasmussen

[marstegreg]

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 31% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10

[mlocher]

I heard Obama ask if this is an April Fool’s joke.

[SmokingJoe]

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (-10) (Thank goodness)

LOL!
Relax comrades. The Marxist's poll numbers are always going to experience some turbulence and bumps here and there, like the poll numbers of any politician do. Good news is, he has been trending down for over a year. That has never changed.

[SoFloFreeper]

THIS is good news...he dipped a bit.

Here, sadly, is some bad news Rasmussen has:

Thirty-five percent (35%) now say the country is heading in the right direction. That’s a nine-point bounce since passage of the health care bill.

But it appears those numbers are mostly Democrat kooks:

Sixty-five percent (65%) of Democrats now say the country is heading in the right direction, up from 48% the week before.

Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) disapprove.

[TheGeezer]

And this.

heh.

[truthkeeper]

Frankly, I just laugh out loud whenever I read these polls, and flat-out don't believe them.
Everyone I run into, everywhere, either hates his guts or, at the best, is blase or ambivalent.
No one actually likes him or the horse he rode in on. Just sayin'.

[marstegreg]

Thirty-five percent (35%) now say the country is heading in the right direction. That’s a nine-point bounce since passage of the health care bill.

They did warn us that part of his disapproval numbers were because Libs felt he didnt go far enough, wasn’t getting this bill throught, etc. So I guess it was coming...

[Rockingham]

In spite of favorable polling, this election year will be a nail biter for conservatives. Midterm elections tend to be decided by relative turnout of base voters. This year though will likely feature a large turnout of swing voters who, at least now, are inclined to vote against the Democrats. Yet swing voters tend to be up for grabs right up until the election. A popular domestic or foreign development could shift many swing voters back to the Dems.

[Girlene]

Strongly Approve = 31
Strongly disapprove = 41
Overall approve = 47
Overall disapprove 53

[SoFloFreeper]

It may have to be a big damn swing. BO has his base, but from what I’ve seen, Republicans are highly motivated and BO has LOST LOST LOST “independents” and “white men” demographics.

[relictele]

I’m not the first to say it but pollsters are relying on a number of factors:

1) Someone who has a land line and/or uses it as their primary phone

2) Someone at home (i.e. not at work) when the pollster calls

3) Someone willing to disclose personal, financial, political and/or geographic data to a disembodied voice

4) Someone willing to sit through the entire poll questionnaire

Take one or all of those factors and you can surmise the sampling population: older, out of work, retired, on fixed income, on the dole, bored or just not very bright. Or all of the above.

Pollsters doth protest too much when they trot out their sample data but they never get round to admitting that their ‘diverse’ sample really isn’t.

Years ago one scientist startled the scientific community when he pointed out that all of their precious studies were potentially fatally flawed because they used a very narrow demographic (college kids) and extrapolated results that ostensibly applied to all of humanity.

[marstegreg]

You are so right, Last week I was in the vitamin store. There were about 5 of us in there including the clerk. I heard the clerk speaking with a guy sporting flip flops and a pony tail. I heard Obamas name come up and I thought to myself “keep yoour mouth shut”. As I got closer to the register I found out they were complaining about him...needless to say, I jumped right in. To my surprise so did the elderly couple behind me. So, out of the % people in that store, 100% of us couldn’t stand him.

[truthkeeper]

I think you make a lot of sense.

I only know what I see and hear, and it's palpable. Pre-election, the Obamaphiles in my office were confident, cocky, and in-your-face. Now they're hiding under their desks, and not a PEEP out of them.

Surely this is going to translate to something. Like maybe "Remember in November?"

[truthkeeper]

Uh-huh.

[Buckeye McFrog]

bump from the half-asleep who think they thought they heard him say he was actually going to drill for our own oil

[TexasFreeper2009]

Just another temporary bump for the zero.

After the euphoria wears off of passing HCR and they realize they still have no job and the bank is still about to take their home the shine once again wears off the turd that is the zero.

And it won't get any better, because Socialism ALWAYS fails.

[truthkeeper]

Yeah, like that’ll happen. Just playing his usual “See how moderate I am” shell game.

[relictele]

Liberals have that misanthropic tendency that permeates every thing they do or say. I have always maintained that liberals are the ones who didn’t fit in on the classroom so they either became toadies for bullies, tattletales or just plain weirdo loners. They haven’t left infancy or adolescence hence all their ‘NYAH NYAH NYAH’ attitudes whenever a contentious issue arises.

Witness the Obama election and subsequent health care ‘victory’: WE WON SO YOU B*STARDS BETTER ENJOY IT, PRAISE US AND SUCK A LEMON!

Magnanimous? Not them. Ever.

[throwback]

It looks like he got a bump because the loony Left was disapproving of him not pushing socialism hard enough. So now we're starting to see what portion actually disapproves of socialism. I'd say not much more than half of the country gets it. Amazing number in there was that 65% think the middleclass pays more in taxes than the rich. I'm not too encouraged. This country is going to have to suffer another two years of high unemployment before enough people get it.

[calex59]

Well, anyone who thought -8 was a good number wasn’t thinking too clearly. I am not sure I believe Rasmussen as much as I used to because yesterday other polls were showing him lower than he had been but Ras had him gaining slightly.