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 RasmussenPosted 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.
To: TulaneThe 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?
To: throwbackHe’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.
To: ScottinVAALL 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 byMechanicos (Why does the DOE have a SWAT Team?)
To: MechanicosBest poll is to ask people you know and what you see from people you learned to trustI 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.
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To: MechanicosRamussen 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 byMoby Grape (Formerly Impeach the Boy…name change necessary after the Marxist won)
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.
39 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 9:24:07 AM byCringing Negativism Network (Evict the unsanitary, violent occupiers. Now.)To: TulaneWell 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.
To: ScottinVAGood 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.
To: ScottinVAPredictably, 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.
Go piss up a rope.
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.
Done and done.
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!!
85 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 11:16:48 AM byDestroyLiberalism
Good stuff, Tommy. Thanks for the combing thru the garbage and finding something to recycle.
(The realtor comments were very good!)
All best wishes for the coming new year.
Merry whatthehelleverfloatsyerboat Tommy! Did that new iso suit with the sports package arrive parcel post yet? They guarantee delivery sometime before hell freezes over.
I don’t understand the righties’ fascination with Alinsky, but what do I know.
I didn’t know where else to post this but I thought you guys would get a kick out of this: Scott Walker got named Governor Of The Year! Woot! ‘cept it’s buy a fake journal created by a Republican astroturfer.Woooopsies!
Archy – thanks – hopefully Ms. A will get a kick out of that one, too.
Left Rev – the new iso suit came Friday – I really like the spoiler and ground effect lighting!
SB – thanks for the tip – needless to say, the Freeperati are treating the “Governor’s Journal” astroturf award as if it was a lamp shaped like a lady’s leg. I’ll be knocking it over and breaking it next Monday.
Tommy
“mired in scandal”?
Another Inego Montoya moment provided by people who never cease to amaze.
“Simple fact is – allowing the financial sector to police itself is like allowing rapists to practice abstinence.”
I see. And you’re defending the Obama Administration and the current Democratic leadership because…?
Primary season is coming up, you know.
“you’re defending the Obama Administration and the current Democratic leadership because?”
Um – I’m making fun of the Republican twatwaffles who believe in the Invisible Hand Of The Free Market(tm).
If you think I’m defending anything, you’re reading a bit too much into a satire series.
Tommy
Unfortunately, I fear we will not be treated to the spectacle of the Smartest GOP Candidate (TM), a low bar I grant, debating Obama. The Salamander slipped and got stuck in the santorum in Virginia, failing to collect enough signatures to get on the primary ballot. His campaign even forgot to registernewtgingrich.com. Of course you can all visit the site multiple times for a random assortment of Salamander Stupidity.
How fiendishly clever to give bigots a chance to be bigots.
I seem to remember some other idiot suggesting “bring it on.”
I suggest you start taking those meds now.
So, screwing for Truth, Justice and the American Way?
Anyway, best wishes to all of you for whatever.
–Kibitzer
So being the socialist liberal he was, he had plans to save us from our ignorant selves by building bridges and dams with our own money.
Yes. That is exactly what he did. The bastard!
Also, plenty of room for our ferrets? YAAAAAY! I’ve been thinking about militarizing them, you know. Strap a little AK onto Claire, let her go to town on the neighbor’s cat.
A.
I like how gold-bug survivalists assume that there is a functioning method of symbolic payment for goods and services after the end. Or even that survivors would not use a barter economy. I mean, it’s more efficient and lets people deal only with people they like and trust.
Thanks yet again. Looking forward to the year end wrap up next week.
All I’m asking for is ferrets with frickin’ laser beams strapped to their heads.. Is that so hard?