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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s the phony feint to the middle, alot of pollees are apparently fallimg for it.
Because they’re rigging the polls.
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.
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.
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.
Because he didn’t let the Tucson crisis go to waste. He capitalized on it for political gain. He has no moral character.
It rises with the ebb and flow of things. I strongly believe as we have seen from his first two years his arrogance will be the undoing of him shortly and his numbers will fall again.
He’s not really doing anything. His numbers plummeted when he and Witch Pelosi rammed unwanted and unneeded legislation up our...er...down our throats. He has not done anything to piss people off lately.
The recent Wellstone 2011 helped.
In fact, it wouldn't surprise me to see a complete repudiation of the Democrats in the Senate, with heavy losses there, and a larger GOP majority, yet combined with his reelection.
Unfortunately, you heard it here first.
If extending the Bush tax cuts and taking political advantage of a senseless tragedy by reading a speech that he didn’t write from a teleprompter are enough to boost any American’s opinion of this president, we have even more reason for pessimism then I thought.
The American electorate is a strange, ill informed, selfish bunch, and seems bent on suicide by politician. The next few years could be very interesting, indeed.
It has to be because the Hawaii Govenor has put to rest the COB controversy, once and for all.
Poll numbers are irrelevant. The only poll that counts is the one in November.
I follow Ramussen’s number almost daily and every few months do a statistical correlation analysis.
Obama’s “strongly against” numbers started going down almost immediately after the election of a Republican congress. Now they are down to the level they were between the stimulus being passed but before health care was announced. My guess is that people didn’t approve of him letting congress do whatever it wanted. Perhaps now that he preforms his constitutionally correct role of checking the house, people will warm up to him. Intuitively, Americans understand the constitutional system of checks.
His “approves” in the Rasmussen polls have gone up slightly since the lame duck. Not by very much though. Rasmussen filters for likely voters. Other polls just poll adults with a weak correction for party affiliation. My guess is that the difference between the light rise in Rasmussen and the greater increase in other polls is that people who don’t vote are feeling better about him.
The new polls are not good news to him. They have had no effect on Republican / Democratic party affiliation. In fact, more people identify themselves as Republicans since the election. Everyone likes a winner.
They are bad news to Republican presidential hopefuls. I think people would be very leery of putting any one party in charge of the Senate, House and Executive branch again.
This is horrible news for anyone who thinks the Republicans should wait for a Republican president before balancing the budget. We may have to wait until 2016 for that. We’ll be in default by that point and Obama will be asked to assume extra-constitutional duties and no one will be able to stop him.
Democrats have returned to the fold after the election and start of the new Congress. The Market is up also. Obama really had no place to go but up.