Posted on 11/10/2011 9:09:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama is now polling even with a generic Republican candidate in a new Gallup poll a measure by which he was down by eight percent in recent months a sign that he is turning his presidency around after a miserable few months.
Incumbents running for reelection underperform in this sort of poll, which allows voters to imagine their ideal candidate running against Obama. When placed in a head-to-head match-up with the GOP field, Obama performs even better.
Obama has also gained tremendously among swing voters who favored the generic Republican by over 20 points in September, but now are split between Obama and the dummy candidate.
In a separate poll from Quinnipiac University, Obama ties GOP front-runner Mitt Romney in the key swing states of Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania, and leads the rest of the Republican field.
His strategy of putting the screws to Congress for failing to pass his jobs bill and the lack of enthusiasm for his Republican opposition are certainly contributing to the bump. While by no means assuring him victory in 2012, the polls indicate that Obama has succeeded turning around months of bad poll numbers.
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Fear not. Gird your loins and prepare for battle. Did you expect this to be easy?
er harder, not hardly (D’OH!)
You are ABSOLUTELY right!!! I have been thinking "something" was not the same here and that is probably it. New so called conservatives or they are liberals in sheep's clothing or simply don't have a clue. If the Lord continues to tarry and I do not see the Rapture while alive, at least I know that I have most of my life behind me and still not in front of me. I fear for those that have years and years left to live. This nation today is not like what I grew up in during the 50s and 60s. The next few generations are in deep deep trouble and simply are too young, dumb and stupid to understand what this current world and government is going to do to them. They can forget freedom. They HAD BETTER prepare of living under a repressive rule. I pray every night that the day of the Lord's return is near. These times tell us it is near. I can only pray it is.
Check this out for little solace.
If it wasn't for Allegheny and Philadelphia counties we'd be red.
Thanks for the info...
You can actually lose longtime friendships over obama and the democrats...
I agree. People are delusional thinking obama is going to be easy to beat.
If we don’t get some sane people back in government next year, I think Atlas will be shrugging soon after.
She thinks she's brilliant, and as far as she's concerned, obama and the democrats are good for the country.
This is what we have to understand. People are angry about the way things are, but they don't associate those bad things with Obama. I've talked to many, many people and a lot of them say things like they "like Obama". I ask them why they like him, or what it is they like, and they have no answer other than to repeat they "like" him. They are either brainless or brainwashed. And others who say things like "they don't blame him". But they blame Republicans or Bush. I ask them why they blame those people and the answer seems to be "they're bad people", or they "don't like them". I can only conclude a lot of people simply have emotionally driven political philosophies.
We have to understand this phenomenon and figure out why it is this way. We need to find a way to connect the dissatisfaction people feel with Obanga, because he is the cause of it. For some reason, a lot of people don't want to believe it.
This is the same thinking of the university president who championed the Occupy people and their goals (in the abstract) but reached a real-life point of being fed up with their on-campus filth and mayhem, and sent them packing.
It's emotionalism. When do people wake up? When the problem starts to dribble its fetid water over their own home's threshold.
On that same campus I saw a "Dump [BO]" sign (BO was pictured with a Hitler mustache). This would have been unthinkable a year ago; they would have confiscated that protestor's sign.
I think the cognitive strain is beginning to show. Redistribution of wealth is fine in theory, too much wealth is concentrated in the hands of too few, these people say -- but they squeal when they feel a hand grabbing their own wallet.
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