Posted on 10/23/2014 7:52:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
You can tell that the press is losing interest in covering the 2014 elections. Not only are the tides of fortune not looking all that promising for the Democrats, people in the media’s target demographic – younger, predominantly Democrat voters – just don’t seem that excited or interested in hearing yet another story about how their candidates are getting kicked around. But just how dismal are they feeling? A new poll conducted by the Associated Press and Gfk put a different spin on the usual questions which voters are asked.
Rather than just asking people whether they “approve” or “disapprove” of the job the President is doing – and how strongly – they decided to mix things up and ask how “enthusiastic” or “angry” they are about Obama. As the WaPo describes it, the results are, if anything, worse than the original numbers.
The AP-GfK poll asked the approve/disapprove question, finding 17 percent of likely voters said they strongly approve of Obama and 44 percent strongly disapprove. But then it asked a separate — and we would argue, more enlightening — question about the Obama administration. It asked how people felt about it, and gave them four options: “enthusiastic,” “satisfied but not enthusiastic,” “dissatisfied but not angry,” and “angry.”
That would seem to be a pretty good analogue for the approve/disapprove question, but the answers are quite a bit different. While 17 percent of likely voters “strongly approve” of Obama, just 9 percent say they are “enthusiastic” about his administration.
On the other side, 34 percent say they are “angry” about Obama’s presidency. Again, that’s less than the 44 percent who “strongly disapprove” of Obama.
While there is little doubt that the level of enthusiasm for Barack Obama across the country – in both parties – is likely cratering, I’m not convinced that the shift in numbers between those two polls is all that indicative of a trend. What it may be, at least in part, is a matter of wording and the way people react to particular phrases, which is a huge factor in the science of polling. If you use a word like “angry” in a question, it’s just never going to ring up the same kind of numbers as other choices such as unenthusiastic or disapproving. That’s because people can’t help protecting their own self-image, even in an anonymous poll. Most people don’t like to think of themselves as angry because that carries an inherent connotation of a loss of control. It’s a parallel to the modesty most individuals feel. In repeated surveys, more people will say that they think they are wise than smart. It’s all about self-image.
But that shouldn’t come as too much consolation to the White House. No matter whether the answer is 9% or 17% those are still some pretty awful numbers.
How many of them think he’s running for office?
As many as can spell his name/s
This means that nine percent of likely voters are crazier than an outhouse rat with rabies and snorting cocaine.
Guess which 9%......
And here I thought Jerry GARCIA WAS DEAD...................
Most of them are doing that
Since 14% of the population is of that ethnicity, I'd say he is even losing his racial base.
I suspect nearly all of that 9% are of a similar skin tone to Obama!
en bucks says that not a *single* member of that 9% has ever done a day’s work in his/her life.
I haven’t received anything here in Brooklyn, NY that there’s an election next month. Maybe it’s because I registered as Republican.
I’d wager wenty bucks!
9%? Isn’t that about the number of people released from mental institutions when the LIBs closed most of them several years ago?
Yah,I know.I spilled some soda on my keyboard recently and now the "i" and the "t" stick so that they don't print unless you really hit it hard.The Army taught me to be a two finger typist.
That accounts for slugs with at least one Queen Putt phone and 2 welfare checks...
We could go a long, long way to improving the future of this country if we could find this 9%, and offer them a free plane ticket and one year of expenses paid in any other country but this one, with the agreement never to return. We would save billions in the long run.
Sumohadiwidjojo? I bet none of them can. They think just because he has dark skin that he's african! Racists!
They think just because he has dark skin that he’s african! Racists!
Yep. And, IMHO, after his term is up as president, he moseys over to Hawaii to live with his rich Hawaiian bros. Not to say he’s Hawaiian, but Kenya would be a little beneath him at this point. Anyway, his black ghetto bros will have to rely on Jesse or fend for themselves.
I recall reading articles about polls that showed voters believing that Obama was running against George W. Bush.
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