Posted on 09/20/2011 7:27:25 AM PDT by Petrosius
Recent polling shows President Obama attracting between 39% and 46% of the vote against a variety of potential Republican challengers. Despite those relatively low levels of support, the president has never trailed a Republican by more than three percentage points and has enjoyed large double-digit leads in some match-ups.
But always there are a decent number of voters who say they prefer a third option or are undecided. Currently, among those who are undecided, just 34% approve of the way the president has handled his job, while 64% disapprove. Among those who prefer a third option rather than Obama or a particular GOP candidate, the president’s numbers are even weaker: 13% approve, and 87% disapprove.
Put it all together, and the president earns approval from just 22% of those who currently are uncommitted to either a Republican candidate or Obama. Seventy-eight percent (78%) of this group disapprove. These figures include three percent (3%) who Strongly Approve of the president’s performance and 49% who Strongly Disapprove.
These figures are derived from surveys of 3,000 Likely Voters conducted from September 10 to September 15, 2011. One-third of the respondents were offered a choice between Obama and Texas Governor Rick Perry; one-third had a choice between Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, and the remainder had a choice between Obama and Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann. A total of 539 respondents did not commit to supporting either the Republican nominee or the president.
This national survey of 3,000 Likely Voters was conducted on September 10-15, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 2 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
The data suggests that the president will have an uphill battle to win support from many of the uncommitted voters.
Forty-three percent (43%) of these voters plan to vote for a Republican congressional candidate, while just nine percent (9%) will vote for a Democrat. Sixteen percent (16%) prefer a third-party candidate for Congress, and 31% are undecided.
Just six percent (6%) of the uncommitted voters believe the nation is heading in the right direction, while 85% believe it has gotten off on the wrong track.
Thirty-five percent (35%) are Republicans, 13% Democrats and 52% not affiliated with either of the major parties.
Among the full sample, 44% preferred Obama and 38% the Republican candidate. Ten percent (10%) wanted somebody else, and eight percent (8%) are undecided. Individually, Romney was slightly ahead of Obama; Perry trailed by seven points, and Bachmann trailed by double digits.
Among all voters nationwide, the president’s Job Approval has been in the low-to-mid 40s.
How many of us were dissatisfied with Bush, especially in the last couple of years of his terms? Would we vote for a democrat because of that dissatisfaction? Not bloody likely!
“Keep in mind that some of that 64% are dissatisfied with him because he is not communist enough for him. That does not translate into votes for his opponent.”
This is why, if we are to do what I believe the left has been recurrently doing, we would run ‘liberal’ plants as third party candidates in as many tightly contested races as possible.
Watch Obama whomp up the ‘class war fare’ rhetoric, thinly veiled racism, in his determination to get a second term - an unhinged Obama is at the bat.............
“Disapproval” is not “undecided”. The internal polling that the White House has privately contracted for must have REALLY bad numbers for the incumbent’s chances of re-election.
Look what happened in NY-9 special election - a normally safe Democratic seat won by a Republican, not just a little bit, but by an astonishing margin. I know, the election is some thirteen and a half months away, but with a little stoking, the electorate can be white-hot by November, 2012.
No rational and of at least average intelligence human being would be satisfied with the job this man is doing - unless they literally wanted this country to go full on socialist/fascist. This means that 36 of those who responded were either:
A. Idiots
B. Totally ignorant on politics
C. Lying for fun.
D. Enemies of the constitution of the US.
Are there any other choices?
The only question now is whether the society is degenerate enough to elect Obama again with the status quo. Obama is betting it is. The economy will not move off the dime in the next year, so he’s using the only tool he has, envy and the mistaken perception that the rich are capitalists. The rich fear the mob. If communists can control the mob, they’re all communists now, a la Warren Buffet.
36 = 36%
E. All of the above.
Sounds like 64% of the Undecideds have decided, but they just don't know it yet.
totally dependent on the government
—totally dependent on the government—
Yup. Forgot that one. But I also sort of lump them in with the socialist/fascist thing.
In the vein of the phrase, “when you rob Peter to pay Paul, Paul rarely complains” I honestly believe the democrats are desperately trying to increase the number of Pauls that vote to ensure the lunacy continues. But they ignore that as you end up with fewer and fewer Peters, you invoke Thatcher’s law: The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of OPM.
We (the western world and economies serving it) have run out of OPM and the writing is on the wall for anyone that would bother to read it.
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