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RE :”The Reuters/Ipsos telephone poll of 1,084 adults included 554 respondents who identified themselves as Democrats, 421 as Republicans, and 109 as independents. The total respondents included 937 registered voters.
Er, that would mean that 51.1% of the respondents to the poll were Democrats, and 38.8% were Republicans. Now, I grant you that Republicans have been slightly overrepresented in this sample, as the 2010 exit polls showed 35% of voters were Republicans. However, Democrats also only comprised 35% of the vote that year, not 51.1%, and only 39% the year Obama won election.
So the big news for Obama is that in a poll that consists of 51.1% Democrats, he gets a 50% approval rating? Yeah, that’s a boost, all right. And Reuters needs to go back to polling school.”

This is actually pretty funny. If you took Maryland voters as your entire sample his approval would be 65% or 75%.

It is possible that some independents could see this as Obama doing good. But it could also give liberals over confidence as many liberals think that most people are really liberals at heart like them.