Posted on 08/09/2009 5:28:46 AM PDT by ScottinVA
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 31% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -8 (see trends).
Check out our review of last week’s polls to see “What They Told Us.”
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates also available on Twitter.
Overall, 50% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Fifty percent (50%) disapprove.
The President earns approval from 85% of Democrats while 84% of Republicans disapprove. As for those not affiliated with either major party, 42% give the President their approval.
Congress earns good or excellent reviews from 14%.
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And it is bigger than a moral victory. Dick Morris said of the obamacare voting in Congress that if 0 is mired in the 40's, approval-wise, obamacare is DOA. That goes for all his radical proposals. If he gets back over 50% then it all passes. Polls matter.
Make that a big -12
I think ostammer and his party will lose part of the Hispanic and Asian vote and a large part of the white vote, but blacks and Jews will never leave the rat plantation. 2010 may be the first time in decades that the rats lose the senior vote.
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Good analysis. I think with round after round of Tea Parties, town hall protests, dropping approval ratings (isn’t that so sweet to those Bush sufferers among us who rode that ship out with the traitor press), and just plain ol’ buyer’s remorse, 2010 could be (must be) a very good rebound.
But we need to work twice as hard - redouble our efforts, as the saying goes...to make sure.
It is shocking how important 2010 is, and how close we truly are to the brink here.
Exactly....Bush would have never dropped so far if he hadn’t gone against his base on Amnesty. He created a situation where all sides of the political spectrum were disapproving of him for different reasons.
They are in a different kind of slavery now.
Polls are the ONLY thing the idiotic, mendacious, traitorous press corps will listen to any longer. They do not try to find all sides of ANY story.
The more seiu goons beat up old folks the happier the libs are.
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This can only be 20 to 30% or so, at most...the other 70% are horrified, like we are.
“Congress earns good or excellent reviews from 14%.”
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So according to Reid, Boxer, and Pelosi, 86% of the American people are astro-turfing nazi’s who wear Brooks Brothers.
All in Congress better take note of these polls and the remonstrance in these Town Hall meetings. It is REAL.
He hit -12 as the lowest at Rasmussen. I don’t know why it jumped back up to -8 so quickly. People seem intimidated by the creep and aren’t using their noodle. Either that or they are so busy trying to keep food on the table they aren’t thinking about politics.
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True, true. I also think that people can hardly believe how BAD he is...it will take a while for that to sink in and for them to leave the euphoria the media forced on us, to be found out as the lie it is/was. I think week to week, you’ll see the strongly disapproves continue to climb.
28 to 32 strongly approve *are* the brain deads..
The reasons his numbers are getting better is because the stock market is kicking butt. People are making money like crazy. I have made a ton in the couple weeks or so. Wait until the 401K statements come in, people should be thrilled at what they see.
That number is BEAUTIFUL.
Wait until the 401K statements come in, people should be thrilled at what they see.
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Except for the 9.5 to 15% out of work, depending on your state...how do they feel right now?
That drop must reflect the thug tactics - a huge one day drop for a three day avg poll (iirc)
Wait until the 401K statements come in, people should be thrilled at what they see.
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Some 401Ks are back to where they were in Dec./Jan...but where will they go in the next 3 years with 0bummer at the helm, enacting taxes and spending and socialism like CRAZY?
What happens when he takes over your favorite 10 bagger company - you know, for the good of the people?
It’s true the markets are resilient, but zero got some pretty wicked exogenous shocks for ‘em to come, if we let him...
I think people are seeing that in the UR, if not in their 401K bounces.
Except for the 9.5 to 15% out of work, depending on your state...how do they feel right now?
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There are supposedly 1.5 million people running out of their extended unemployment benefits in the next couple of months...what’s going to happen to his ratings then? Will those folks 401Ks (if they’ve got ‘em) see ‘em through?
I understand that things could go bad in the next three years (which is why it is stupid to do a daily tracking) but since we here love to do this type of thing than I will answer that things are going to go up and down numerous times in the next three years. This Health Care garbage debate needs to be put to bed. Hopefully it will end up in the trash can like it did in the 1990’s.
What other organization that scores 14% on TWO categories (good and excellent) could stay in business?
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What a salient point. Let’s show ‘em the door, shall we? YOU’RE FIRED! (say it like Trump..)
Don’t get me wrong - you are making a good point. I’m showing some other conditions that are just as real as 401K results.
Who are these 16% of “RINO’S” who approve?
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While this is a bad number, it’s not as bad as some people think about the Republican party...they get dissed pretty hard and fast here, yet when push comes to shove, there’s as great solidarity there, as with the dim bulbs...yes, we need to see that number go to 95 soon...and beat back the dim bulbs..
We also need to convince the weak kneed RINO and otherwise weak kneed R leaders, that being strong is what is causing this current success and will cause the electoral success.
There is no way to spin these numbers in a good light. I haven’t even heard them trying.
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You mean even the press has to stop lying occasionally, when it makes them look too incredibly stupid? Wow, good to know.
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