Posted on 05/11/2011 7:08:31 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP
WASHINGTON – 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.
Comfortable majorities of the public now call Obama a strong leader who will keep America safe. Nearly three-fourths — 73 percent — also now say they are confident that Obama can effectively handle terrorist threats. And he improved his standing on Afghanistan, Iraq and the United States' relationships with other countries.
Despite a sluggish recovery from the Great Recession, 52 percent of Americans now approve of Obama's stewardship of the economy, giving him his best rating on that issue since the early days of his presidency; 52 percent also now like how he's handling the nation's stubbornly high 9 percent unemployment.
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This was so predictable.
Oh, yeah?
The bump is gone. As is the thrill down Chrissy’s leg.
Hopefully this will cause Obama to overreach, like that stupid speech yesterday in El-Paso.
Oddly — or perhaps not — the AP report doesn’t include a link back to the survey’s raw data. In order to find it, one has to go to GfK’s site for its AP polls. The partisan breakdown in the sample is found about halfway through the PDF, and it explains a great deal about how Obama managed to get such a high boost in this poll while others showed shallow bumps that had already started to subside.
The Dem/Rep/Ind breakdown in this poll is 46/29/4, as AP assigned most of the leaners to the parties. That is a 17-point gap, more than twice what was seen in the 2008 actual popular vote that elected Obama. It only gets worse when independents are assigned properly. When taking out the leaners, the split becomes — I’m not kidding — 35/18/27. Oh, and another 20% “don’t know.” That’s significantly worse than the March poll, in which the proper D/R/I was 29/20/34, and far beyond their post-midterm sample of 31/28/26. It’s pretty easy to get Obama to 60% when Republicans are undersampled by almost half.
Frankly, this sample is so bad that no real insights can be gleaned from it.
Hot Air had an article today showing just how skewed the sample on this poll was. 100% more Dems than Republicans sampled in this poll. This poll was designed for one purpose - to shape public opinion not to measure it.
"..The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -12 (see trends). .."
American stupidity on parade...
I did go to Rasmussen today and saw he was over 50%.
It is so sickening, on top of indications that the OBL
killing may very well be a fraud.
The so called dumping at sea says a lot.
Not according to this, it looks like it is just getting started;
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/president_obama_vs_republican_candidates.html
Da-Da-Da-da, Too bad for Obama election day is not this month. I dont read much into this.
Although I have noticed that Republicans have done a great job moving to the political offense in 2010 to the defense this year. Way to go!
The Dem/Rep/Ind breakdown in this poll is 46/29/4, as AP assigned most of the leaners to the parties. That is a 17-point gap,
Yeah, and all American Pravda had to do to get that result was to oversample Democrats by 17%:
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/266932/latest-ap-poll-sample-skews-democrats-17-points
The poll was totally faked. They over-sampled democrats 3 to 1.
Yep!!! Obama is on his way down!!! Any idiot that believes an AP-Gfk poll is drinking Kool-Aid, smoking reefer, is just plain dumb, or...is mentally insane!!!
But forgot the paragraph. Doh.
LIARS, LIAR pants on fire!
(Not you Psyco-Freep, the pathetic, propagandist AP)
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