Posted on 05/19/2013 10:31:26 AM PDT by granada
Given the battering President Obama took this past week on a trio of political scandals, any public opinion survey results that aren’t dreadful probably are viewed with some relief at the White House.
That may be the clearest message from a CNN/ORC poll released Sunday morning.
According to the survey, which was conducted Friday and Saturday, 53 percent of Americans say they approve of the job the president is doing, with 45 percent saying they disapprove, CNN reports. That’s actually a tick better than the 51 percent approval rating Obama had in early April – but not enough to break out the sparkling cider.
"That two-point difference is well within the poll's sampling error, so it is a mistake to characterize it as a gain for the president," says CNN polling director Keating Holland. "Nonetheless, an approval rating that has not dropped and remains over 50 percent will probably be taken as good news by Democrats after the events of the last week."
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
They have to keep the polls artificial up while more and more scandals to contra act they coming out of the woodwork!!!
And even SHE voted for Clinton. Mainly because her fellow single woman low information friends told her to.
She won't tell me, but I actually think she did vote against Obama. (I suspect why). One of the few times she disobeyed direct orders from her LIV pals.
I have an acquaintance who, in her 40s and apparently voting in every election since she turned 18, was shocked to learn that the Democrat party was not the pro-life party on the issue of abortion.
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