2016 Postmortem

JoePhilly

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17. The media will get caught up in some new shinny object.

Tue Jun 18, 2013, 05:05 PM

Jun 2013

And off they'll go.

The reason the poll numbers move at all is because those who pay almost no attention to politics are influenced not by the actual issues, but by the tone in the media. And so those folks say "What, people are upset with Obama ... ummm ... me too."

And then it blows over and we get a new jobs report, and its pretty good, and so those same folks, still not really paying attention get a sense of the good news and say "People seem happy with Obama's handling of the economy ... and so am I".

Every summer we go through this. Politics comes to a near halt, and the media needs something to talk about. So expect continued hyperventilating to continue for a bit, but also expect the topic DU JOUR to change.

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Obama's Approval Rating Slides [View all] BlueDemKev Jun 2013 OP

Its working! jberryhill Jun 2013 #1

I'm sure everyone will love the Supreme Court Justices Jeb Bush nominates. FSogol Jun 2013 #5

No kidding. zappaman Jun 2013 #15

I agree and think they should find their own forum flamingdem Jun 2013 #29

Exactly. Zoeisright Jun 2013 #27

how much do his approval ratings matter? Enrique Jun 2013 #2

That's a pretty simple question to answer jberryhill Jun 2013 #7

Then again WovenGems Jun 2013 #9

At 10 minutes a piece, that's 8.5 hours jberryhill Jun 2013 #10

The Rule WovenGems Jun 2013 #11

Yeah, madamesilverspurs Jun 2013 #3

Bingo. mikekohr Jun 2013 #12

He'll be back in the low 50s in no time. We, as a nation, are fickle...First we love him, then monmouth3 Jun 2013 #4

Rightly so Downtown Hound Jun 2013 #6

+1000 Fearless Jun 2013 #8

+1001 forestpath Jun 2013 #21

Great post. bigwillq Jun 2013 #20

It's a bump in the road. This too shall pass. Liberal_Stalwart71 Jun 2013 #13

I doubt things could be much worse for him Proud Liberal Dem Jun 2013 #14

How is he going to win re-election? Yavin4 Jun 2013 #16

That's a silly answer leftynyc Jun 2013 #24

The media will get caught up in some new shinny object. JoePhilly Jun 2013 #17

Did you see the Charlie Rose Interview last night? Because he wasn't "aloof" and Cha Jun 2013 #18

Approval rating will continue to nosedive Harmony Blue Jun 2013 #19

What we need is filibuster reform davidpdx Jun 2013 #23

Don't worry. It's just more 11-Dimensional Rope-A-Dope Bipartisanship. blkmusclmachine Jun 2013 #22

I don't think he should or would care about the R push poll trillions except to thank them Sunlei Jun 2013 #25

Thanks, haters!! Zoeisright Jun 2013 #26

The ratings weren't affected by the IRS thing Rosa Luxemburg Jun 2013 #28

well stated nt flamingdem Jun 2013 #30

According to a poll they showed on Rev. Al's show today, Jamaal510 Jun 2013 #31

Well... CobaltBlue Jun 2013 #32