Good morning, gentle people – last clean-up edtion of Obsession starts right now – Let’s upwrap our last presents, shall we?
First up, from November 14th – Freepers notice that President Obama’s poll numbers have changed course and are rising.
“Pollsters can’t be trusted”, sez the Freeperati!“I’ll wait to see what Rasmussen has to say!”
Um – thisis Rasmussen.
Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (WTH? Hussein rising?)
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 14 November 2011 | Scott Rasmussen
Posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 8:56:26 AM byScottinVA
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15 (see trends).
That’s the president’s best Approval Index rating in three months. Still, most voters continue to favor repeal of his primary legislative accomplishment, the health care law.
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates are also available on Twitter and Facebook
Overall, 50% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s job performance. That’s the first time since June that the president has reached the 50% mark. Forty-nine percent (49%) at least somewhat disapprove.
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Monday morning facepalm as Americans appear to be going brain-dead again.
1 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 8:56:32 AM by
ScottinVA
To: ScottinVA
BHO is going to win reelection. When that happens it’s not going to be pretty.
3 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 9:01:45 AM by
svcw (God’s Grace – thank you!)
Pretty fucking hilarious is what it’s gonna be.
The post-election edition of Obsession may have to be a two-parter.
To: Tulane
The Kenyan’s poll numbers are rising. Not good.
Tax the rich, blame do nothing congress, blame Wall St, OWS mau maus, 2nd quarter GDP growth, Libya? What could it be?
10 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 9:06:16 AM by
y6162
All of the above, plus a gaggle of GOP condidates better suited for piling out of a tiny car than for debating?
To: throwback
He’s betting on the stupidity of the American people. It’s a pretty good bet.
I completely agree.He’s still the “shiny new bling,” I guess.
18 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 9:11:39 AM by
ScottinVA (Hurrah me boys, for FREEDOM! `Tis the risin` o` the moon!)
Fo shizzle.
To: ScottinVA
ALL POLLS, that is without exception all public released polls are for profit marketing tools to shape public opinion. They only work as long as gullible people pay attention to them. Best poll is to ask people you know and what you see from people you learned to trust.
23 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 9:13:37 AM by
Mechanicos (Why does the DOE have a SWAT Team?)
Yeah, that makes sense. Ignore national polls andonly poll people who share your views.
Stupidity personified.
To: Mechanicos
Best poll is to ask people you know and what you see from people you learned to trust
I can’t speak for others, but the people I know and trust tend conservative. It won’t be a good representation of the public at large. That’s why I take all those anectotes of “everyone I talk to says he’s toast” with a pound of salt.
26 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 9:16:58 AM by
ScottinVA (Hurrah me boys, for FREEDOM! `Tis the risin` o` the moon!)
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To: Mechanicos
Ramussen is by far the most accurate right-leaning pollster…it is a mistake to simply dismiss his polls when they don’t tell you what you want to hear.
35 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 9:22:28 AM by
Moby Grape (Formerly Impeach the Boy…name change necessary after the Marxist won)
FIFY.
Oh – and you’re banned.
To: Longbow1969
The simple reason is that several GOP candidates’ cults, have been using Alinsky tactics against other Republicans.
Instead of against the left.
Ignoring Reagan’s 11th Commandment.
Reagan was right.
To: Tulane
Well I think we’re all greatly underestimating something. For the first time in my life that I can ever remember the “tax the rich” “screw them for their success” is not a just a fringe element of people anymore. What I mean by this is I don’t believe it’s just the OWS people.I think there are people you would not expect in your neighborhoods, daily lives, who secretly are angry at the rich and want them punished.
Maybe because they’re underwater on their mortgages and/or are out of work, or because the banksters played roulette with their 401Ks, and the rich aren’t missing any house payments?
I think there is an undercurrent out there in the country where people who have either stayed stagnant in their salaries or have had financial difficulties are blaming the wealthy for it.
In other breaking news – people who have been mugged are blaming criminals for it. Film at 11.
I’ve never seen anything like that before in America, and its awful. Point is, I think it’d be unwise for the GOP candidates, and the right overall to dismiss the class warfare angle as a singular radical left wing OWS idea. I think it has gained traction, and I think people who don’t identify with the left or the radicalism of it are actually starting to agree with. Which is terrifying.
62 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 10:16:54 AM by
hitchwolf
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Simple fact is – allowing the financial sector to police itself is like allowing rapists to practice abstinence.
To: ScottinVA
Good Grief! Would some of you folks get a grip…PLEASE!
I cannot believe some of you people lap up these daily tracking polls the way you do. If Obama and his administration thought they were in such great shape, they wouldn’t be asking Clinton for guidance; they wouldn’t be going full throttle against Cain…yada…yada.
It’s a daily tracking poll for crying out loud. Way too many variables for me to have a conniption fit over.
I swear, the Left must laugh their A$$es off at us.
69 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 10:26:55 AM by
Artcore
Yes, Ido laugh my ass off at you.
Don’t like it? Don’t be so fucking risible.
To: ScottinVA
Predictably, the hand-wringers and doom-and-gloomers here on FR are WAY, WAY overreacting to an job approval poll that is clearly an OUTLIER from every other approval poll currently out there. And of course the majority here is already throwing up their hands, waving the white flag of surrender, and more-or-less declaring Obama the victor one full year prior to an election. YOU PEOPLE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES.
Folks, think about it… Has there been ANY positive news for the country in the past week? NO! Unemployment is still at an alarmingly high 9%, there are still 14 million people out of work, the national debt has increased by $5 TRILLION over the past three years, we’re on the verge of a nuclear Iran, Obama continues to be mired in scandals, etc. etc. Obama’s approval numbers have consistently remained around 44% on every other poll.So did you ever stop to think that perhaps Rasmussen has taken a BAD SAMPLE of popular opinion over the past several days???
Hindsight’s a bitch, innit?
Thursday, December 22, 2011 (4days ago)
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14 (see trends).
That’s the president’s best Approval Index rating since August.
But no, too many of you want to panic, give up, and declare Obama unbeatable. It quite frankly MAKES ME SICK andmakes me not want to post on Free Republic any longer because I don’t need all this extra negativity in my life.
If there is ever a time to start building a backbone of steel, it’s NOW!!! And QUIT READING AND LISTENING TO THE STATE RUN MEDIA FOR CRYING OUT!!
Somehow the right-leaning Rasmussen has morphed into the “State Run Media”.
Nobody tells meanything.
The media is purposefully going to try to depress you.
They’re hiding behind your couch and justwaiting to jump out and kill your self esteem with snarky comments about how you dress and what TV shows you watch.
They’re going to try to convince you that the economy is improving when it’s NOT, that Obama’s poll numbers are improving when they AREN’T (Heck, let’s not forget that Jimmy frickin’ Carter had a 54% approval rating in Gallup just 10 months before the 1980 election!), and that the GOP candidates are terrible when they AREN’T!
The American people all KNOW things are bad right now. Poll after poll is showing 80% of them think the country is going in the wrong direction and even more think the economy STINKS, for crying out loud!
I’m officially making my prediction right now that OBAMA IS TOAST IN 2012 AND WILL LOSE HIS RE-ELECTION BID IN A LANDSLIDE.That’s right… MARK IT DOWN AND BOOK IT.
I also predict that Rasmussen will have Obama’s job approval numbers back around 45% within the next week and may even drop below 40% with the next year.
You’re definitely batting .000 so far.
Thursday, December 22, 2011 (4days ago)
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14 (see trends).
That’s the president’s best Approval Index rating since August.
A LOT can and will happen between now and the November 2012 election. We’re gearing up for yet another deficit reduction battle in Congress with the super-committee over the next couple of weeks, which will almost certainly be a drain on Obama like it was this past summer.
Wall Street Journal: The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is no easy double play. Republicans have also achieved the small miracle of letting [President] Obama position himself as an election-year tax cutter, although he’s spent most of his Presidency promoting tax increases and he would hit the economy with one of the largest tax increases ever in 2013. … At this stage, Republicans would do best to cut their losses and find a way to extend the payroll holiday quickly.
ObamaCare has a very good chance of being struck down and he will be rightly portrayed as a overreaching president who’s signature piece of legislation was ruled unconstitutional.Greece and Italy is almost certain to default at some point, which will send the U.S. stock markets into a tail spin.
And these muon-brained twatwaffles accuse theLeftof “hating America”?
The U.S. has a 50-50 chance of lapsing back into another recession during the next year. Would ANY of this make Obama more re-electable??? HELL NO!!
So get a damn grip, people, and START CAMPAIGNING AGAINST OBAMABY TALKING TO YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND CO-WORKERS RIGHT NOW!!
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