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Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (April 17, 2010: HUSSEIN PLUMMETS TO -17)
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 04/17/10 | Rasmussen

Posted on 04/17/2010 6:56:44 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -17

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010polls; bho44; bhojobapproval; fifth100days; obama; obamaapproval; poll; rasmussen; tracking; trackingpoll
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To: Recovering_Democrat

I guess being an arrogant SOB isn’t that amusing to the public.


41 posted on 04/17/2010 7:43:59 AM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: thirdgradeteacher
I’ll feel comfortable when Reid and Pelosi are OUT.

I’ll feel comfortable when the communist, Constitution-shredders are brought to justice and their agenda is outlawed.

As a community organizer, 0kaka couldn’t have possibly made it to the Senate if Joe McCarthy was around.

42 posted on 04/17/2010 7:47:22 AM PDT by melancholy
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To: silverleaf

“27%/45% is still way too high approval rating for a redistributionist statist appeasing dictator.”

Hey! The MSM is trying its best to get us to love Our Dear Leader. Give em’ a break! :>)


43 posted on 04/17/2010 7:47:37 AM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Notice one important thing is 45/54=99% which means only 1% undecided. Hes the most polarizing individual ever in the White House.


44 posted on 04/17/2010 7:49:10 AM PDT by wiggen (Government owned slave.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
I think Obama got a small bump earlier in the week from his Nuclear Summit that the MSM inaccurately hyped as accomplishing something...
45 posted on 04/17/2010 7:56:42 AM PDT by apillar
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To: 9YearLurker
[His strong approvers thinned out after tax day?]

Forty five percent (45%) don't pay any income taxes. That's probably the 45% who approve of Obama.

46 posted on 04/17/2010 8:03:13 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Paine)
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To: newfreep

Bracketing Tax Day. I guess the masses weren’t too impressed with boyobammie’s “tax cut.”


47 posted on 04/17/2010 8:10:25 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: screaminsunshine
He is a real player.

...buffering...buffering...buffering...

48 posted on 04/17/2010 8:10:32 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
And even if taxes DID go down, its obvious that he is positively salivating to raise taxes (VAT’s, energy taxes, income taxes, windfall profit taxes). That is one thing about him that IS transparent.
49 posted on 04/17/2010 8:12:12 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Thank You Pantywaist Pissant (i mean president) for continuing to create or save 2-3 million conservatives on a monthly basis. the way you are going there only will about 1 million liberals left in America.m Thanks so much and keep up the good work of showing what a true imbecile you really are. The marxist/socialist/fascist agenda will be ended even before it is started and the second term you so desparately seek will be served in a federal prison, right beside Reid, Pelosi, Dodd, Frank, Stupak and et al.


50 posted on 04/17/2010 8:12:37 AM PDT by hondact200 ( Lincoln Freed the Enslaved. Obama Enslaves the Free. Obama is Americas Greatest Threat)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
HUSSEIN PLUMMETS TO -17

What happened to his -21 after Demcare passed?
51 posted on 04/17/2010 8:12:42 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Recovering_Democrat; SoFloFreeper; InterceptPoint; markomalley; PapaBear3625; OKSooner

Let’s not get overly optimistic about this morning’s plunge in the Rasmussen Index. It’s most likely just one more example of statistical noise — a.k.a. “sampling error.”

Based on my attempt to deconstruct the data behind this morning’s three-day rolling averages, I’d say it’s unmistakeable that Big Ø had a terrible poll last night. His “raw number” for the SA’s probably fell as much as six or seven percent from the night before. At the same time, the raw number for the “strongly disapproves” seems to have gone up by about the same percentage.

Such a huge one-day shift in public opinion simply isn’t credible in the absence of some clear external factor. And yesterday’s news headlines don’t provide any such exogenous variable.

So what happened? Last night’s sample just skewed markedly toward respondents who don’t approve of the Annointed Øne. Purely a matter of random chance — the kind of movement that will always happen from time to time with small samples.

On the other hand, I won’t go so far as to say public opinion hasn’t shifted downward just a bit. I have been maintaining for some time that I thought the “true, underlying value” of the Rasmussen Index was ca. -10 to -11. Now it looks to me more like something between -11 and -12. But to be sure, we’ll need a few more days worth of data.

In the meantime, last night’s data will remain as a 1/3 component of the Rasmussen Index values for tomorrow (Sunday) and Monday morning. Therefore, Tuesday morning’s Index value should be telling. I expect it will tick up a bit — but I hope I’ll be wrong!

Outlook for tomorrow:

70% probability that the Index trades in a range between -18 and -15.

20% probability that it rises to -14 or higher.

10% probability that it falls to -19 or lower.


52 posted on 04/17/2010 8:16:44 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: LibLieSlayer
I'm with you. It is just to obvious that Ras polls started showing a big improvement after Rasmussen was accused of bias by the left. Since then his polls have seesawed back and forth, fortunately they haven't gone above about -8 since then and that is still a very bad number for a President but I believe his true numbers are somewhere around -17 to -21.

Can't prove it of course but there was no big seesawing of numbers before Ras received his threat.

53 posted on 04/17/2010 8:25:07 AM PDT by calex59
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To: Recovering_Democrat

45% at least somewhat approve, but 44% *strongly* disapprove, so the Abyss Index is at +1, right? Obama’s heading back over the abyss (as he was a month or so ago).


54 posted on 04/17/2010 8:25:17 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: truthkeeper
There is no excuse for 45% of the voters saying they "somewhat approve" of the bowing Kenyan's job performance, other than complete apathy and ignorance on the part of the public. These numbers are still way too high.

True, but there are real ignoramuses out there.

Case in point: at the Tea Party I attended Thursday, a young black motorist yelled at me that there were "three colors in the flag" and that it was about time "another color" had the power of the presidency.

I told him I didn't CARE one single BIT about the President's race or color--it was his POLICIES that SUCKED.

Thankfully, we had some black Americans protesting Hussein with us!

55 posted on 04/17/2010 8:32:46 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: mad_as_he$$
The only person to laugh in my face about being trans, did it while wearing an Obama/Biden hat. (Liberals are oh so tolerate)

Now when I go in his store he occasionally goes off about what a "worthless dick" Obama is.

He's not the only Seattle lib I've seen that change of heart in.

56 posted on 04/17/2010 8:34:47 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Socialism is for people who've given up.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

I wonder if Carville still thinks the Republicans are peaking too early. He seems to think people will get tired of not liking Obama’s policies, and just start agreeing with him just because.


57 posted on 04/17/2010 8:37:24 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Conservative Bostonian, atheist pro-lifer, mocker of the clueless)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Are all 57 states being polled?


58 posted on 04/17/2010 8:40:24 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: GOP_Party_Animal; bwc2221; InterceptPoint; markomalley

>> The “strongly approves” are all over the place, indicating their support is fickle. Bodes well for November. <<

I hope your diagnosis is right, but put me in the skeptical camp for the time being.

I just ran the standard deviations for both the “strongly approve” and the “strongly disapprove” series, starting with the passage of the health takeover bill on March 21. Here are the statistics:

Standard deviation of the “strongly approves” = 1.77%

Standard deviation of the “strongly DISapproves” = 1.10%

In other words, you’re correct that the “strongly approve” number is less stable than the “srongly disapprove” number. But is there enough difference to be significant? Maybe by November. But I can’t read the current numbers as showing a “fatal fickleness” among supporters of His Ø-ness.

On the other hand, the current numbers do give us a lot to be optimistic about. If we take this morning’s Rasmussen numbers at face value and assume an election were held today, then my electoral turnout model suggests a generic opponent opponent could beat the Øne by a margin of 56 to 44.

(The above calculation assumes the “strongly approves” and “strongly disapproves” would both turn out at a rate of 85%, while the “somewhats” on both sides would turn out at a rate of 60%.)


59 posted on 04/17/2010 8:40:46 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Going to be hard to dump this little child like communists King Obama because the freeloaders are still holding the low end up. We will never get that bunch of empty headed nitwits to see what America is becoming. They don't give a damn as long as big daddy feeds them.
60 posted on 04/17/2010 8:42:01 AM PDT by Logical me
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