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AP-Gfk poll: Obama approval hits 60 percent
AP/YahooNews ^ | 5/11/11 | LIZ SIDOTI and JENNIFER AGIESTA

Posted on 05/11/2011 5:39:45 AM PDT by Kartographer

President Barack Obama's approval rating has hit its highest point in two years — 60 percent — and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll taken after U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

In worrisome signs for Republicans, the president's standing improved not just on foreign policy but also on the economy, and independent Americans — a key voting bloc in the November 2012 presidential election — caused the overall uptick in support by sliding back to Obama after fleeing for much of the past two years.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apfauxnews; apflack4dnc; apprrep; pollingalqaeda; pollingillegals; samplingerror
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Now that's what I call 'UNEXPECTED' and UNEXPLAINABLE!
1 posted on 05/11/2011 5:39:47 AM PDT by Kartographer
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That was the whole idea behind the timing of the operation. It was all about obama.


2 posted on 05/11/2011 5:41:57 AM PDT by jersey117
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Unreal. I wonder who was polled?


3 posted on 05/11/2011 5:42:13 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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The Associated Press-GfK Poll was conducted May 5-9 by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications. It involved landline and cellphone interviews with 1,001 welfare recipients nationwide and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.
4 posted on 05/11/2011 5:42:28 AM PDT by TSgt ("Some folks just need killin'" - Sling Blade (2006))
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I don’t believe it. Gas is over $4 per gallon and unemployment is 9% and people are happy with his performance on the economy???


5 posted on 05/11/2011 5:42:33 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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More more lies they tell, the lies they attempt.


6 posted on 05/11/2011 5:43:43 AM PDT by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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They must have done this poll in Manhattan where all the Jews love this horrible anti-Semite but would vote for him for any reason. Do some polling out here in downtown Ohio!


7 posted on 05/11/2011 5:43:45 AM PDT by laweeks
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Gfk ??

ML/NJ

8 posted on 05/11/2011 5:44:37 AM PDT by ml/nj
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I like the way the article says that 61% of people don’t approve of the way he’s handled gas prices. They add the caveat “even though the president can do very little about that”! I’m sure they added that in there when Bush was in charge as well.

They must have went out and found simple-minded morons for this poll.


9 posted on 05/11/2011 5:44:37 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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oops...is that the media and the pollsters all jammed up Obamas butt? They are showing their true colors. The Media....doing more for the destruction of America, one poll and one day at a time.


10 posted on 05/11/2011 5:46:16 AM PDT by oust the louse (The death of Osama is as mysterious as the life of Obama.)
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Unreal. I wonder who was polled?

Dewberry's Home for the Criminally Insane.

11 posted on 05/11/2011 5:46:25 AM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt The Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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Is that facetious, or reality? Hard to tell these days.


12 posted on 05/11/2011 5:46:32 AM PDT by butterdezillion (.)
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I don’t believe it. Gas is over $4 per gallon and unemployment is 9% and people are happy with his performance on the economy???

Success in killing Bin Laden is going to bleed off into other areas for awhile. More people probably think if he could accomplish this that the economic problems are either not his fault or that his policies may eventually work.

Hussein is going to be popular for awhile unfortunately, and there isn't much we can do about it other than bide our time. His numbers will come down again, but maybe not as low as they were before. Additionally, it is going to be very hard to attack him on foreign policy/terrorism issues.

13 posted on 05/11/2011 5:46:35 AM PDT by Longbow1969
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Only honest polls of likely voters matter.

And only the polls of likely voters in certain states is critical.


14 posted on 05/11/2011 5:47:17 AM PDT by Bobalu ( "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother." ..Moshe Dayan:)
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My son is doing his part, however. Before he hires anyone, he goes to their Facebook page.

A SINGLE pro-Obama reference will result in: no interview, no hire.

:)


16 posted on 05/11/2011 5:48:49 AM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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AP/BHO working overtime for their leader!

"I have the impression that Barack Obama works really hard for Americans and that I see his leadership as something that should be continued," says independent voter Allison Kaplan, 25, in Austin, Texas, who voted for him in 2008.

ROFLOL!!!!!

17 posted on 05/11/2011 5:49:45 AM PDT by Rational Thought
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This is BS.


18 posted on 05/11/2011 5:50:16 AM PDT by svcw (Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
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To: TSgt

Ah, it really says 1001 “adults”, which could be just about anybody.


19 posted on 05/11/2011 5:50:23 AM PDT by butterdezillion (.)
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MSM continues full force Psych-Ops...


20 posted on 05/11/2011 5:50:48 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again for our justification)
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