2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPoll: Obama’s approval rating is back over 50 percent; Hillary Running on Obama Legacy
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/18/1471313/-Poll-Obama-s-approval-rating-is-back-over-50-percent-Hillary-Running-on-Obama-LegacyBy Zeta Retuculi
Hillary Clinton was smart to praise President Obama at every opportunity at yesterdays debate in South Carolina. The Presidents approval are on the upswing. Both Gallup and Rasmussen daily tracking have him at 49 and now the Washington Post / ABC News poll has him at 51%.
A bare 51 percent majority of the public approves of President Obama's job performance in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, while 45 percent disapproves. Although tepidly positive, those are Obama's best numbers since May 2013 in Post-ABC surveys.
Obama's rebound is more striking compared with one year ago. Last October, just before Democrats' major losses in the 2014 midterm elections, his approval ratings ranged between 40 percent and 43 percent the lowest of his presidency. "Strong" disapproval of Obama outpaced strong approval by a roughly 2-to-1 margin.
Today, not only is his approval rating up 11 points from its lowest point, but strong opinions of him are more closely divided; 35 percent strongly disapprove, while 28 percent strongly approve.
www.washingtonpost.com/
Good for Hillary to point out Bernies efforts back in 2011 to look for primary challenger to President Obama.
It will be hard for Bernie to appeal to African-Americans with his constant dissing of President Obama by talk of revolution.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,706 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)floriduck
(2,262 posts)How exactly does she support the president with those concepts, especially after the recent compliance by Iran? She tends to say one thing and do the opposite.
emulatorloo
(43,982 posts)floriduck
(2,262 posts)emulatorloo
(43,982 posts)that somehow HRC secretly hates Obama.
fwiw, HRC is not the candidate who wanted someone to primary Obama in 2011.
floriduck
(2,262 posts)Do you see the word hate anywhere in my post? You used it, not me. I said she is not totally on board with Obama's policies. And that is a correct statement. Stop making crap up.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,706 posts)"If you have two people who always agree, one is unnecessary."
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,706 posts)I am humbled to share an epoch with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
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(12,769 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,706 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,706 posts)Forty four presidents, the preceding forty three white.
That is a radical departure from the past.
But if you want to place any of the current field on the same plane as Barack Obama that is certainly your right.
on edit- original sentence:
The first out of forty non white presidents in forty four attempts was a radical departure from the past.
edited sentence:
Forty four presidents, the preceding forty three white. That's a radical departure from the past.
A special thanks to a fellow denizen of this board for pointing out my error.
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(12,769 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,706 posts)I will edit it and cite you.
Yours truly,
DSB
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(12,769 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Response to MrWendel (Original post)
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SleeplessinSoCal
(8,998 posts)The question for progressives a question that is now central to the Democratic primary is whether these failings mean that they should re-litigate their own biggest political success in almost half a century, and try for something better.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/01/18/paul-krugman-hillary-bernie-wrong-healthcare.html
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(8,998 posts)I've been there too many times.
President Eugene McCarthy
President Ralph Nader
President Jerry Brown
and on an on. Had we fallen into a depression, Sanders would have across the aisle appeal.