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To: drangundsturm

From drangundsturm: “I stand corrected: I had not refreshed my page on RCP, obama now stands at -4.6% overall, a massive new low, more than a percentage point greater than yesterday, mostly because of Ras’s new figures being so devastating today.”

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How right you are and how sweet it is!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html#polls

The Real Clear Politics webpage can be considered the poll of all polls because it averages together all of the most recent presidential job approval polling surveys, including those conducted by the Obama-loving sycophantic “news-media” outlets!

One number on the RCP poll that’s especially encouraging is Obama now teeters just under the 50% disapproval number at 49.8%. That’s horrible news for the Kenyan Marxist!


68 posted on 07/31/2010 7:47:59 AM PDT by DestroyLiberalism
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To: DestroyLiberalism
One number on the RCP poll that’s especially encouraging is Obama now teeters just under the 50% disapproval number at 49.8%. That’s horrible news for the Kenyan Marxist!

And because most of those polls (every one other than Ras) in the RCP average have some kind of "neutral" choice (Approve, Disapprove, Not Sure) that makes this figure even more significant because it's already more than half of the people who actually expressed an opinion.

If you look down through the RCP polls at the ones whose Approve + Disapprove do not add up to 100, you find that somewhere between 4% and 8% are choosing the "Not Sure" type of response. Let's call it 5% on average to be charitable. Surely you would have to consider someone who is "not sure" if they approve or disapprove of Obama to be at best unenthusiastic, at worst teetering on the edge of "Disapprove."

And in fact we have some evidence that this is true. Rasmussen, who requires respondents to choose and does not leave them a "not sure" option, is basically showing that all of those neutral people, when forced to choose, are going with "Disapprove". We know this because Rasmussen's "Approve" figures are in-line with the other polls, but his "Disapprove" figures are noticeably higher, by just about exactly that 4 to 8% the other polls are putting in the "Not sure" or other neutral type category.

75 posted on 07/31/2010 8:01:29 AM PDT by drangundsturm
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