Posted on 05/11/2011 10:10:02 AM PDT by MissesBush
Wow! The AP poll has Obama’s approval rating hitting 60 percent! And 53 percent say he deserves to be reelected!
And on the economy, 52 percent approve of the way Obama’s handling it, and only 47 percent disapprove! He’s up 54–46 on approval of how he’s handling health care! On unemployment, 52 percent approval, 47 percent disapproval! 57 percent approval on handling Libya! Even on the deficit, he’s at 47 percent approval, 52 percent disapproval!
It is a poll of adults, which isn’t surprising; as I mentioned yesterday, you don’t have to be a registered or likely voter to have an opinion on the president.
But then you get to the party ID: 46 percent identify as Democrat or leaning Democrat, 29 percent identify as Republican or leaning Republican, 4 percent identify as purely independent leaning towards neither party, and 20 percent answered, “I don’t know.”
For contrast, the AP’s immediate preceding poll was 45 percent Democrat, 33 percent Republican; the likely-voter pool in October 2010 was 43 percent Democrat, 48 percent Republican. The poll’s total sample in October 2010 split 43 percent Democrat, 40 percent Republican.
With a poll sample that has a 17-percentage-point margin in favor of the Democrats, is anyone surprised that these results look like a David Axelrod dream?
(Interestingly, George W. Bush is at 50 percent approval, 49 percent disapproval, even in this sample wildly weighted in favor of the Democrats.)
Just read this on Drudge.
What a f’ing joke.
Good laugh to start my internet day. LOL
The Peanut Gallery will go ballistic.
The Bozo’s fan club will trumpet these numbers like gospel..........
The shameless have no shame...
The US News media make TASS look objective.
If you read the analysis of this poll’s sampling on Hot Air you will see that there was actually a 29 point difference in the amount of Dems vs. Republicans polled.
A P stands for “Awfully Partisan.”
Anyone with just a FEW functioning brain cells KNOWS that Obama does NOT have any 60% approval rating. The very idea is ludicrous at this juncture.
AP stands for “American Pravda”......................
He who controls the message, controls the agenda, I’m afraid.
Jeez AP, why not just get it over with and sample ONLY democrats.
His real poll figures must be a disaster if the left has to use a 29 % Dem party advantage to get to 60 %.
Rather than take the word of the lying enemy, I’ll wait for a more credible analysis...... from Pravda.
First, polls are being used to generate revenue for the MSM and those they hire.
Second, there is only one poll that really means anything and it is conducted every other year, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday. Everything else is “noise in the headset”.
It’s a big headline on Yahoo, the largest Internet campaign outlet - I mean news source.
Only 60%? Big deal. Both Bush 39 and Bush 41 had a much higher bounce following, respectively, the 1991 Iraq War and 9-11. It’s a dead-cat bounce which will quickly dissipate once the electorate realizes that nothing has imnproved in the U.S. economy.
Ther point of reported polls is to FORM opinion, not measure it.
You are dead on here. Every single election since Obummer took office has been a repudiation of him and his policies. From Bob McDonnell, Scott Brown and the ‘10 midterms, he has been humiliated no matter what these outlier polls claimed. This spin by AP will have no effect on public opinion. People are not buying it anymore.
Obummer doesn’t believe these polls either by his actions. He is losing Blacks and Hispanics. That is why he is drumming up the Dream Act again which is reelection poison and hitting Rev Al’s Black rallies. If things were as rosy as this poll says, he would be out trying to bring the independents back which he has overwhelmingly lost. Without them he will not be reelected.
Only 60%? Big deal. Both Bush 39 and Bush 41 had a much higher bounce following, respectively, the 1991 Iraq War and 9-11. It’s a dead-cat bounce which will quickly dissipate once the electorate realizes that nothing has imnproved in the U.S. economy.
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