Posted on 01/20/2011 2:26:28 PM PST by teg_76
Because he extended the tax cuts for two years, because of Tuscon, and because people believe that the economy is improving slightly.
He is still very beatable in 2012, IF we nominate the correct person to take him on.
Plenty of people I know who were enthusiastic about Obama in 2008 and then very much less enthusiastic about him in 2010 are turning somewhat positive on him after the speech at Tucson.
FReepers may have hated it, but the generic person in the street liked it.
I’d say both. People feel less threatened by him having Republicans in the House.
Also, he sucessfully capitalized on the grief like a good democrat.
It is full on 24x7 propaganda from the media and TV. Even Beck fawned over his funeral rally speech according to posts here.
I dumped TV a year ago because he controls all of it.
Because he seems less scary to moderates now that the GOP has the House.
It’s the phony feint to the middle, alot of pollees are apparently fallimg for it.
In other words, he didn't let a good crisis go to waste.
I don't know how people like that can sleep at night.
Because they’re rigging the polls.
Oh, and there's currently no election campaign underway.
Tucson to some extent, but mostly the massive MSM effort to portray him positively no matter what. And the election season is over, which took his unpopular policies and his supporters in Congress out of the news for a time. That helped him.
“after the speech at Tucson.”
People watched that?
Good lord I can’t imagine.
I refuse to even ponder the depths of intellectual agony that that listening to him would bring about.
Lies hurt. Stupidity even more. Yuk. Don’t ever make me watch something like that. I would rather be water boarded.
No surprise. How many times have you heard the pundits say that the best thing that can happen to Obama is that the gop takes control and fixes the problems?
The question I have is whether congress’s numbers are improving.
Should have added: the lame duck session is beginning to fade from memory, and we have a new Congress.
Succinct...and...
Don’t underestimate the importance of the election season being over.
If they published a pack of lies like this just before the election, they would be instantly exposed when Obama’s side got pulverized.
They do it now to DRIVE public opinion as much as they can while no objective measure is soon to be had.
His poll numbers have risen because of the holidays and the fact that he disappeared in Hawaii for a couple of weeks.
For a short while we had a respite from him and his incompetence.
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