Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (-19)

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[mountn man]

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 25% 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 -19 (see trends).

[mountn man]

For the last 2 weeks he's averaged -18.

[Republic Rocker]

Magic number to be broken is 24% on the strong support.

[King_Corey]

Radio talker yesterday spoke with Rasmussen, and he said only way for him to go lower than this plateau now is to start losing Dems. I don’t care if he loses Dems as much as if he loses elections from now on.

[ScottinVA]

How about overall A/D? Thanks in advance! (Can’t access it here @ work)

[Zakeet]

[Colvin]

He has been loosing the Dems here at work. Some folks that used the argue and blame Bush are now rather quiet

[MrB]

Currently, yes.
That number has been as “low” as 22%.

[mountn man]

Overall approval 45%...STRONGLY DISapproval 44%

Overall DISapproval 54%

[Mouton]

Come on, we got to cross the 20% goal line!

[justlurking]

That's kind of interesting:

Only 10% disapprove, but not strongly. That's over a 4-to-1 ratio of strong disapprovals to "tepid" disapprovals.

On the other hand, 19% approve, but not strongly. That's just over a 2-to-1 ratio of strong approvals to "tepid" approvals.

So, a larger percentage of his approvals are tepid.

I will offer my standard caution, though. Clinton was in this same boat, and it led to the Republican Revolution in 1994. However, in 1995, Clinton (with the help of Janet Reno and the state-run media) succeeded in blaming a terrorist attack on his political opponents.

If the Republicans don't focus on the economy and provide an effective counter to the state-run media's propaganda, Obama will be re-elected in 2012.

I know this won't be popular here, but I'll say it: if the Republicans spend even a moment of time on social wedge issues, it will just strengthen Obama's hand. The mantra has to be: get government spending under control, and get the government out of the way so that business owners think it's safe to start hiring again.

[mountn man]

[GonzoGOP]

Come on, we got to cross the 20% goal line!

I'm more interested on the fist day that the Strongly Disapprove goes over 50%. My gut tells me that will take place before strong support from dems goes below 20%. There are demographic and philosophical reasons that number will never be broken. Some will support Obama for tribal reasons. Being one of their own the will never desert him for the outsider. The others hate America and want to see our country destroyed. So the worse he does the more strongly they will approve of him.

But getting 50% to strongly disapprove is very possible. And if the economy double dips we could see it before November 2.

[GonzoGOP]

I know this won't be popular here, but I'll say it: if the Republicans spend even a moment of time on social wedge issues, it will just strengthen Obama's hand.

They should not abandon the social issues. But for the moment they should only press them where they compliment the fiscal conservatism. For example you an oppose government funding of abortion because you are pro life, or you can oppose public funding of abortion because we shouldn't be paying for elective procedures. Either method yields the same result. You can support vouchers because they break the back of the giant teacher's unions, or because it costs less to send a student to private schools than educate them in the public school system. Again both fiscal and social arguments compliment each other.

The ones we need to avoid are programs like George Bush's plans to transfer government funds to religious organizations. These divide the fiscal and social conservatives and allow the dems to play one group against the other.

[Vaduz]

25% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve.
Jimmy gotta be feeling real good about now.

[Brytani]

The other case where we must confront social issues is with judicial activism, especially the despicable ruling by Judge Walker overriding the votes of 7 million Californians.

It will be impossible to disconnect what the judge actually did from the gay agenda but the fact remains, if Walkers ruling is allowed to stand the voters of this country no longer have a say on anything.

The precedence will be set and anytime an activist judge, on either side, determines they do not like a piece of legislation or the votes citizens cast they alone have the power and authority to over rule.

This issue has implications well beyond gay marriage and we can’t afford not to take it on.

[Fido969]

“Strong support” has pretty much leveled out for now, but strongly opposed has been creeping up.

[GonzoGOP]

This issue has implications well beyond gay marriage and we can’t afford not to take it on.

Exactly my point about complementary issue. Judicial activism is way more than just a social issue, it is a complete usurpation of power by one branch of the government. Worse it is an unelected, and unremoveable branch of the government at that. So you can oppose judicial activism because of its use on Prop-8 (Social), Roe -vs- Wade (Pro Life), preventing the fellow of state workers in California (States Rights & Fiscal) or because of the way it was used by the judicial branch to impose a tax in the tobacco settlement (Fiscal and Personal Freedom). Fiscal, social and now constitutional conservatives all agree that judicial activism is bad an must be eliminated.

[newfreep]

[Brytani]

I concur.