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babylonsister

(170,963 posts)
Wed May 14, 2014, 06:10 PM May 2014

Toxic? Not So Much. President Obama’s Daily Approval at 50%

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/14/stand-close-me-obamas-daily-approval-50.html

Toxic? Not So Much. President Obama’s Daily Approval at 50%
By: Sarah Jones
Wednesday, May, 14th, 2014, 2:05 pm


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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama’s job performance. Forty-eight percent (48%) disapprove (see trends).

The latest figures include 24% who Strongly Approve of the way Obama is performing as president and 34% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10.


Fifty percent approval, and since more people hate him with a passion than love him with a passion (according to this poll and per the year of fake scandals your media though it would be good for democracy to pass on as fact), he has a negative 10 approval index. In the scheme of things, this means little. Yet, every time the presidential approval dips below 50%, the media and Republicans jump all over it to prove that their dreams really can come true.

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Also, Democrats lead Republicans by two points on the latest Generic Congressional Ballot according to a Rasmussen telephone survey. Forty percent of likely voters would vote for the Democrat in their district’s congressional race, while 38% would choose the Republican instead. This number is too close to mean much, but it does defy all of the conventional wisdom going around town. Of course, the results of generic polls can change dramatically when well known names are dropped in the mix, let alone a lot of dirty money. But the idea here is that voters right now prefer what they are hearing from Democrats in general.

How this is possible when the media has assured us that Republicans have this locked up because Obamacare sucks so badly, I have no clue, except we notice that suddenly no one is talking about Obamacare anymore, now that it’s working. Apparently, the punditry couldn’t quite sort that glitches would be fixed and people would selfishly put their own lives ahead of partisan politics and dirty money induced hatred.

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Obama did win two elections, the last one in a landslide, even as he was being relentlessly maligned. And the media told us that was a real horse race with King Romney who hated half the country. The media just doesn’t get the Obama coalition. They’ve been wrong about them from the beginning and they continue to be wrong, because they listen to the loudest voices instead of the majority.

Maligned? Yes. Toxic? Not so much.
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Toxic? Not So Much. President Obama’s Daily Approval at 50% (Original Post) babylonsister May 2014 OP
Rec #5! Tarheel_Dem May 2014 #1
KnR sheshe2 May 2014 #2
Mahalo babylonsistah~ In our Country we're fighting US mediawhore Inc as well as the Cha May 2014 #3
I wonder what his approval rating would be if there were no Fox news? If people actually knew what okaawhatever May 2014 #4
And that's RASMUSSEN saying that! SunSeeker May 2014 #5
I know! Shocker!! nt babylonsister May 2014 #6
i still say that obama WANTS gop talking benghazi Garion_55 May 2014 #7
Its proving to be an effective political tactic. nilesobek May 2014 #8
K&R flamingdem May 2014 #9

Cha

(295,928 posts)
3. Mahalo babylonsistah~ In our Country we're fighting US mediawhore Inc as well as the
Wed May 14, 2014, 07:07 PM
May 2014

Madhatter Ass. But, somehow President Obama still comes through at 50%.. imagine if we didn't have to fight all the lies and coverups.

okaawhatever

(9,453 posts)
4. I wonder what his approval rating would be if there were no Fox news? If people actually knew what
Wed May 14, 2014, 07:14 PM
May 2014

was going on. What bills were being passed or being held up. What Obamacare really is and does for individuals, etc.

Garion_55

(1,914 posts)
7. i still say that obama WANTS gop talking benghazi
Wed May 14, 2014, 08:45 PM
May 2014

no one gives a fuck about benghazi. lots of people cared about healthcare. soon as that 'smoking gun' email was released (i submit purposely by the obama people) the conversation changed away from obamacare and back to something the gop looks fucking crazy about.

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