Re Obama polling better than all our candidates: read the internals of those polls.
I think you’ll find they polled a much larger percentage of Dems than Reps which is no longer the demographic. Worse than that, they polled adults with a smaller subset of registered voters with a very small subset of likely voters.
I’m not going to look it up again so I’m working from memory and not giving you exact numbers. You can look it up or wait for the next such poll so that you’ll see it for your self.
If you find a Rasmussen poll, you can usually trust that because he polls likely voters. Once in a while he has an outlier, but his next poll usually is back on.
LOL. I obviously missed the last Ras poll. However, polls this far out from the election are meaningless even when currently accurate as many have pointed out, with special emphasis on Carter being certain to crush Reagan according to polls until just before the election.
This MIGHT be one of Ras’s outliers—we’ll have to see. obama’s numbers on the Ras polls do go up and down as 0 does something to surprise and please Americans or something to please his radical base. Either of those gets the approval number higher FOR A WHILE.