Posted on 03/07/2009 6:42:53 AM PST by lt.america
Obama Approval Index History Date Presidential Approval Index Strongly Approve Strongly Disapprove Total Approve Total Disapprove
03/07/2009 +8 39% 31% 56% 43%
03/06/2009 +15 42% 27% 58% 40%
03/05/2009 +14 41% 27% 59% 40%
03/04/2009 +16 42% 26% 60% 38%
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
My eyes are getting weak. At first I read that as "overpromised and underdeveloped"... which still kind of works.
Clinton had his “bond vigilantes, whom he respected enough to stay in office for 8 years by not ruining the economy.
Obama now has his “stock vigilantes” and he has no respect for them whatsoever and that will be his undoing. We don’t have to wait until 2012 because his policies (and their direct effect on the stock market) are starting to frighten even some of the more liberal Democrats.
When Congress realizes they’re in for a 1994 repeat and that election season is only a few months away, they’re going to start listening to the stock vigilantes even if Obama doesn’t, and we’re going to see some significant backtracking on all this socialist nonsense. The only question is whether we can hold off most of it until that happens.
Meanwhile, keep talking Obama. The more we learn about where you really want to lead the country, the farther the stock market will fall and the more unlikely your grand plans will ever be implemented.
Go stock vigilantes! Take the Dow down to 3000 if that’s what it takes to pound some sense into Congress. (Obama’s beyond hope, but maybe devastating the U.S. economy is an impeachable offense? One can only hope.)
We have jobs. They don’t.
That’s been the conservative excuse for years ( true but we can’t excuse ourselves any longer ). That’s why were in this mess. It’s time to use the methods of the left to take this country back . They are EXCELLENT is getting what they want by protest and in your face tactics. A good example is the environmental movement, %1 of the population dictates the entire energy policy of the nation.
Maybe people need to turn off the NBA ,Dancing Withe The Stars and Devils Hockey and get together and organize against what amounts to a soft take over of the USA by radical Marxist.
” keep talking Obama. The more we learn about where you really want to lead the country “
You mean it wasn’t obvious 2 years ago?
Where will the government get that cheese? The milk supports have been cut for the dairy farmers. The cap and trade plans will raise the cost of their inputs. EPA CO2 rules will make every cow a taxable entity. Older farmers and smaller operations are not going to be able to stay in business. The output of the large dairies and cheese factories will need to be transported with highly taxed fuel.
There will be no government cheese.
I have also noticed fewer Obuma stickers on cars lately.
I’ve always wondered why someone would advertize their own
stupidity, but the diehards who still display probably
didn’t have any money in the market to lose.
I absolutely blame the MSM and advertising for the recession. They always referred to the “R” word in their news reports, even though the indicators did not show this, last year. In addition, I remember an Allstate commercial where their spokesman stated “Maybe we are not in a recession, but it sure feels like it”. That was last summer!! I am glad they now are reaping a bit of what they have sewn. All of this was to get their guy elected. Now we are in a freefall, as they are clueless, or devious, depending on your perspective.
Sure there will be government cheese. We’ve borrowed (or printed) 2 Trillion so far for bailouts. Surely we can buy some cheese with it ;-)
I’m getting really sick of O’Reilly attacking Obama’s policies and then following it up with how “brilliant” Obama is.
Difficult to say. It depends on the favorability of the opponent as well. However I would make it even simpler - if he is below 50% he is in serious danger of losing re-election. Of course if he is at 51% he might still lose if the opponent is at 60% favorability.
I doubted Rasmussen in 2008. Never again. They nailed ‘02, ‘04, ‘06, ‘08. Ras is the gold standard.
Well other than IBD/TIPP.
[Oops; I just posted this comment on the other Rasmussen thread, when I had intended to post it here. Oh well.]
I came late to the thread and haven’t read every post so this may echo someone else’s thought. But here is something I’ve been thinking a lot about, and which may shed light on why Obama’s numbers aren’t falling even faster. There are some Americans, and I wouldn’t put the number at an insignificant level, who fear that to ‘disapprove’ of Obama would be perceived as racist.
Iow, if a pollster asks if they approve or disapprove, they may hate the job he’s doing, but say they approve in order to avoid being seen as bigots. I believe this factor is real, and is keeping his numbers at least to some degree artificially inflated. Fwiw.
I do not care one bit for the RATS that voted for mussolini, they are getting **exactly** what they voted for.
I feel for those of us that vigorously opposed this kenyan all long and are being taken down financially away. We did not vote to end capitalism, they did. In fact, once this is over, those same RATS should be sued for each and any penny they have left, or make in the rest of their pitiful lives, to compensate those of us who lost so much due to their negligence in voting for this fascist.
“What happens to those older folks who cannot retire and/or cannot afford their later years anymore. What becomes of them?”
Life is harder for everyone now. Maybe they should have thought a bit harder before pushing all those buttons for RATS in the voting booth over their entire lifetime. Well, they are getting what they asked for.
Life is cruel, the ones who voted for this facsist do not get any sympathy from me. I save mine for those who opposed him and are now being turned into paupers - like I am.
I now cannot retire, and have no idea when I ever can now. Add to that, he is planning on jacking up my taxes and cost of living through “cap and trade, carbon taxes and the like”, making it less possible for me to save, and dramatically increase the probability my wife and I will be involuntarially severed from employment before we are ready.
What becomes of any of us as this facsist runs American into the ground for four years?
I saw the numbers. They don’t look significant to me....yet. When the numbers get a bit further outside the margin of error(+/- 3%), then it’s a trend (and I do believe they will, in spades). Poke around on that Rasmussen site. There are a lot of other polls that I think you’ll find interesting as well (at least I did). I don’t really now how valid Rasmussen’s approval index methodology is (subtracting strongly disapprove from strongly approve?). Why would you measure the difference between the true believers? I think the more significant measure would be approve minus disapprove, but that’s just me.
Poll numbers are fun. If you look around on the site you’ll find that 8% of Americans think the economy is good or excellent. :-O Why so high?!?! I’ve heard that approximately 10% of Americans are taking psychotropic medication. Perhaps this is the subset we are seeing here.
Right now, the difference in the way we view the numbers is based on how some of us wish the trends were vs. how some know the trends to be. Don’t worry, his Karma will catch up to him, which is why he’s in such a hurry to ram stuff down the throat of the folks.
I agree Urkel is falling but not much. His approval rating is not yet down to the level it was when he was selected and crowned.
We are just seeing the loss of hope by those who were willing to “give the change a chance” when they knew there was no choice. Now that they have run short of change their hope has gone.
If you graph the Rasmussen data and do a brute force look at it from 11-6 forward (no consideration for political events...this might also be interesting) his rating looks pretty flat. Only in the last few days has he really begin to slip rapidly. His fall from grace began two weeks before he was crowned. He can’t be bothered by the, what did he call it, “little fluctuations in the numbers”
He has not fallen so much as the stock market though he has fallen 19% (expressed as 1-(present rating (56)/high (69)) and the stock market, what? 20 / 25% since he was crowned?
Using a exponential curve fit and based on a trend from 1-4-9 we can hope he hits 40% by mid-summer. This has an R-square pseudo-confidence indicator of 0.817 (you statisticians out there can elaborate or flame this as you desire, I don’t care)
This will not happen though. The obamabots will not falter, as their situation becomes more desperate they will only come to believe in the power of Urkel to save them more each day as that is what they have been conditioned to believe. Note in the Rasmussen poll that abt 35% of all polled (whoever that may be) think the gubmet is the only way they can improve their lot.
If only we could extrapolate a point. Looking at the last few days and drawing them to an illogical conclusion we might Hope for a Change in Urkel’s ratings to fall to ZERO by the end of this month. From that point he would, like inspector Dreyfus in “The Pink Panther” simply continue to play his organ and fade away. What a lovely vision.
Source?
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