Now can I get Obama to pay for my gas and mortgage? - Peggy Joesph
Posted on 05/05/2011 8:10:18 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
Qpiac poll finds Obama's numbers get only limited OBL boost.
"Score on economy and reelection unchanged."
American voters approve 52 – 40 percent of the job President Barack Obama is doing, his highest score in almost two years and up from a 46 – 48 percent approval among voters surveyed before the president announced the death of Osama bin Laden, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
This is President Obama’s highest job approval since a 57 – 33 percent score in a July 2, 2009, survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. Men shift from a negative 39 – 54 percent before the bin Laden announcement to a positive 51 – 42 percent today. Women approve 53 – 39 percent today, compared to 52 – 43 percent as of Sunday.
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hedlpful that all this went down now and not a year or 18 months from now.
This is about the limit
He f’d up a HUGE opportunity.
He could have DESTROYED the notion that he was a secretive little man who put country last.
Instead, he solidified the notion that he is shady, paranoid and will put the interests of his muslim brothers before the interest of Americans.....
Who are these people?
Zombies?
I wasn’t sure if the headline applied to Obama’s popularity and the economy in general.
Probably both.
Perhaps the only real hope Obama has of re-election is some kind of screw-up by the Republicans. Unfortunately that is quite possile.
possile = possible
I need coffee . . .
They'll be "leaked" at the appropriate time, so the dead cat bounces when its supposed to.
I don't know if you're old enough to remember 1979-1980, but to me, the economy felt worse then than it does today, probably for no other reason than gas was expensive and lines were long and interest rates were double-digit. Even still, Jimmy Carter led Reagan until the second debate just a week or so before the election. And, it was a fairly comfortable lead as I recall - around five or six points.
The only reason Reagan won that election is because he crushed Carter in those debates, especially the second one. It was a tour de force performance - in tone, tenor, content and performance, Reagan looked presidential and a safe alternative to the guy who was President. That proved two things - debates are important, and perhaps even more important that the totality of everything that comes before them, and it proved that things can change quickly in national elections.
Kind of like baseball, ties go to the incumbent. Incumbent presidents don't lose elections (although some people will argue that), they are won by the competitor. I think that even if the economy worsens (marginally) Obama can beat any Republican so long as Obama wins that debate, that's just the power of the incumbency. If the Republican wins the debate convincingly, then Obama is probably going to have a long election night.
Dead Rat Bounce.
Thanks - I do remember. I’m hoping the American public is more accepting of conservatives now than it was then.
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