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Why are Obama's poll numbers rising? (vanity)
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html ^

Posted on 01/20/2011 2:26:28 PM PST by teg_76

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1 posted on 01/20/2011 2:26:34 PM PST by teg_76
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Because he extended the tax cuts for two years, because of Tuscon, and because people believe that the economy is improving slightly.

He is still very beatable in 2012, IF we nominate the correct person to take him on.


2 posted on 01/20/2011 2:28:33 PM PST by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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It is a Tucson bounce.

Plenty of people I know who were enthusiastic about Obama in 2008 and then very much less enthusiastic about him in 2010 are turning somewhat positive on him after the speech at Tucson.

FReepers may have hated it, but the generic person in the street liked it.

3 posted on 01/20/2011 2:28:58 PM PST by wideawake
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I’d say both. People feel less threatened by him having Republicans in the House.

Also, he sucessfully capitalized on the grief like a good democrat.


4 posted on 01/20/2011 2:29:06 PM PST by MNDude
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To: teg_76

It is full on 24x7 propaganda from the media and TV. Even Beck fawned over his funeral rally speech according to posts here.

I dumped TV a year ago because he controls all of it.


5 posted on 01/20/2011 2:30:30 PM PST by Frantzie (Slaves do not have freedom only the illusion of freedom & their cable TV to drool at)
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To: wideawake

Because he seems less scary to moderates now that the GOP has the House.


6 posted on 01/20/2011 2:30:40 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: teg_76

It’s the phony feint to the middle, alot of pollees are apparently fallimg for it.


7 posted on 01/20/2011 2:30:48 PM PST by smoothsailing
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he sucessfully capitalized on the grief like a good democrat.

In other words, he didn't let a good crisis go to waste.

I don't know how people like that can sleep at night.

8 posted on 01/20/2011 2:31:20 PM PST by cowboyway (Molon labe : Deo Vindice : "Rebellion is always an option!!"--Jim Robinson)
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To: teg_76

Because they’re rigging the polls.


9 posted on 01/20/2011 2:31:48 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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To: wideawake
Engineered poll results ~ as usual.

Oh, and there's currently no election campaign underway.

10 posted on 01/20/2011 2:34:03 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: teg_76

Tucson to some extent, but mostly the massive MSM effort to portray him positively no matter what. And the election season is over, which took his unpopular policies and his supporters in Congress out of the news for a time. That helped him.


11 posted on 01/20/2011 2:36:30 PM PST by Will88
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“after the speech at Tucson.”

People watched that?
Good lord I can’t imagine.
I refuse to even ponder the depths of intellectual agony that that listening to him would bring about.

Lies hurt. Stupidity even more. Yuk. Don’t ever make me watch something like that. I would rather be water boarded.


12 posted on 01/20/2011 2:36:30 PM PST by getitright (If you call this HOPE, can we give despair a shot?)
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No surprise. How many times have you heard the pundits say that the best thing that can happen to Obama is that the gop takes control and fixes the problems?

The question I have is whether congress’s numbers are improving.


13 posted on 01/20/2011 2:37:25 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
He is still very beatable in 2012, IF we nominate the correct person to take him on.



14 posted on 01/20/2011 2:37:56 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Will88

Should have added: the lame duck session is beginning to fade from memory, and we have a new Congress.


15 posted on 01/20/2011 2:38:24 PM PST by Will88
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Because they’re rigging the polls.

Succinct...and...

totally accurate.


16 posted on 01/20/2011 2:40:08 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas...)
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To: Frantzie
I dumped TV a year ago because he controls all of it.


17 posted on 01/20/2011 2:40:15 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Will88

Don’t underestimate the importance of the election season being over.

If they published a pack of lies like this just before the election, they would be instantly exposed when Obama’s side got pulverized.

They do it now to DRIVE public opinion as much as they can while no objective measure is soon to be had.


18 posted on 01/20/2011 2:40:19 PM PST by getitright (If you call this HOPE, can we give despair a shot?)
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To: teg_76

His poll numbers have risen because of the holidays and the fact that he disappeared in Hawaii for a couple of weeks.

For a short while we had a respite from him and his incompetence.


19 posted on 01/20/2011 2:44:27 PM PST by Jedidah
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Rasmussen has him the highest since April of 2010 - I spent awhile looking through nachmulist back in April but couldn't see anything that he had done of significance back in early 2010. I guess his ratings are skyrocketing because he told the Tea Party to STFU and act civil.

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Obama Approval Index History
20 posted on 01/20/2011 2:44:31 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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