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Poll: Obama's Favorability Rating Upside-Down for First Time
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Posted on 09/16/2011 4:43:40 PM PDT by sunmars

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To: TexasFreeper2009

That’s probably some good advice. I will do that. I had settled on Rasmussen because I thought his were reliable. I told myself I’d take the good and bad of what his polls came up with. However, the past couple of weeks...I’ve really got my doubts.


21 posted on 09/16/2011 5:12:22 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Mexico! Your poverty isn't America's problem.)
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To: sunmars

Unless something drastic happens within the next 13 months or the G.O.P. nominates a quack or an idiot, this man will be forever known as “Black Carter.”


22 posted on 09/16/2011 5:14:18 PM PDT by Grunthor (Almost any republican currently running for POTUS would be light years better than Obama)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Comeback? If this is a comeback, I sure wouldn't want one.

Did you miss the election results this week? Those polls were pretty definitive.

23 posted on 09/16/2011 5:16:35 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: sunmars

The only stat I would like to know is what percent of the dummies who voted for Ibama last election will vote for him again in 2012?


24 posted on 09/16/2011 5:18:15 PM PDT by Leep
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To: FlingWingFlyer
I like Rasmussen, but all polling is subject to an occasional outlier. By averaging all available polls taken at any given moment, you smooth out those weird fluctuations, and can see the trends much easier.
25 posted on 09/16/2011 5:19:10 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Rick Perry 2012 !)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Yeah. I just went over to RCP. I threw out the highs and lows.


26 posted on 09/16/2011 5:20:21 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Mexico! Your poverty isn't America's problem.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Rasmussen shows Barry having a big comeback. These polls are all over the place.”
________________________________________

I have never understood Rasmussen.

I would expect Obumbo to be in a linear free fall,
but Rasmussen has him bumping up and down....Up today.


27 posted on 09/16/2011 5:22:05 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: AlexW

That was the one I was talking about. He was bouncing around in the low and mid -20s. He goes on his, “If you really love me, pass this bill” tour and now he’s at -17. Something is going on. That many people haven’t changed their minds already.


28 posted on 09/16/2011 5:25:56 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Mexico! Your poverty isn't America's problem.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Someone else made the Pierce connection? Bless you sir.


29 posted on 09/16/2011 5:46:51 PM PDT by BenKenobi (Honkeys for Herman! “10 percent is enough for God; 9 percent is enough for government")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Don’t trust Ras polls. He jacks them around so bad this far before an election.


30 posted on 09/16/2011 6:15:38 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

this biased so called media we have have been defending him so much and that is the reason why his numbers stayed up there but imagine if they did their job and really reported on this phony who is clearly over his head?


31 posted on 09/16/2011 6:18:26 PM PDT by manc (Hannity admitted he is socially liberal, another phony conservative,1man +1 woman=marriage)
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To: sunmars


32 posted on 09/16/2011 6:23:52 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Muslims who advocate, support, or carry out Jihad give the other 1% a bad name)
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To: Route797

“He never had the right, he lost the left, and he’s losing the center.”

All is chaos. The center cannot hold.


33 posted on 09/16/2011 6:38:22 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: Route797
OBAMA's CARTER PHASE2

Zer0's entering his 'Jimmy Carter' phase, where the majority of people begin to just tune him out and realize he is a failed president who's words no longer inspire and instead create malaise and concern for the nation. Now all we need is that Plains, Georgia rabbit from 1979.


34 posted on 09/16/2011 6:39:01 PM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: sunmars
Friday "bad" news dump for Bowbama! GREAT news for us...

No! I correct myself!

GREAT NEWS FOR THE U.S.!

35 posted on 09/16/2011 6:44:42 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Bushbacker1

On the 5 they mentioned how NY9 could make DWS nervous.

2010 was the first time she had an opponent.

Karen Harringtong got a lot of votes (for purple Broward county FL).

http://www.karenforcongress.com


36 posted on 09/16/2011 6:54:35 PM PDT by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
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To: sunmars
..the perception is dropping and the curtain has been pulled.

And awaiting stage left is the re-constituded wonder woman, HILLARY!!

37 posted on 09/16/2011 7:08:31 PM PDT by fuzzthatwuz
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To: Lazlo in PA
The following are the average first term approval ratings of recent presidents from highest to lowest and the result of their re-election attempts:

John Kennedy - 70.1% (did not finish term - assassinated)
Dwight Eisenhower - 69.6% (re-elected)
George W. Bush - 62.2% (re-elected)
George H.W. Bush - 60.9% (defeated)
Richard Nixon - 55.8% (re-elected)
Ronald Reagan - 50.3% (re-elected)
Lyndon Johnson - 50.3% (did not run for second term)
Bill Clinton - 49.6% (re-elected)
Gerald Ford - 47.2% (defeated)
Jimmy Carter - 45.5% (defeated)
Harry Truman - 45.4% (narrowly re-elected)

Barack Obama - currently 39% (and dropping)

It remains to be seen what Obama's final average approval rating will be before his first term is over but as you can see, it is not looking good for him historically. Only Clinton and Truman were able to be re-elected with less than a 50% approval rating and that is only because they had very weak opponents (Dole and Dewey).

So long as the GOP puts up a strong opponent, it looks pretty dismal for Obama's re-election chances.

38 posted on 09/16/2011 7:10:41 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (All my replies get posted to AttackWatch)
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To: AZLiberty; sunmars
She said she got a lot of unexpected abuse and few takers for her bumper stickers and posters. She did, however, say that the foreign tourists were nice to her, especially people from Germany and a couple from Kenya.

They can have him, then.

39 posted on 09/16/2011 7:11:52 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: null and void
My bumper sticker:

Obama is proof ANYBODY can become president.

40 posted on 09/16/2011 7:47:24 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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