Faux news utterly laughable right now, talking about President Obama's falling poll #'s

[Jennicut]

So he fell from 67 or 65% to 62%? Is that really news?

[HowHasItComeToThis]

1. WHOSE NUMBERS? FOX?

[Tempest]

2. The rightwing Rasmussen

Other polls still have him at high marks.

Even Faux's own poll has him higher.

[jenmito]

3. They quote Rasmussen's poll numbers-the guy who's always on Faux. Don't believe it. n/t

[Median Democrat]

4. Bush Wishes His Pre-9/11 Poll Numbers Were That Good

Even before Bush completely wrecked the country, his polls numbers never looked that good, which supports the idea that Bush used 9/11 to pass a series of unpopular and harmful domestic policies.

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[theoldman]

5. The chart shows that if it had not been for 9/11, Bush's

popularity would have been less than zero by the end of his term.

[NYC Liberal]

10. If not for 9/11, he wouldn't have even won a 2nd term.

He'd be a do-nothing one-term president. It would have been much harder to justify invading Iraq (a big part of being able to convince people was the whole 9/11-fear-we're gonna get attacked AGAIN meme).

Just look at what he accomplished before 9/11. Nothing at all.
Look at what Obama is already doing.

[Seen the light]

12. Obama is slightly less popular than Chimp was in Mar 2001

I was surprised to find that out too, but according to 538, Gallup has Obama at 62% approval and 25% disapproval. W was at 63% approval and 22% disapproval at the same time period. So they were roughly equal if you look at the margins of error.

I think people are playing up the fact that since the previous president left with approval ratings in the tank that means that Obama is doing poorly because W was more popular than Obama in the comparable time frame. I don't think that's noteworthy though. Obama has had a much more ambitious agenda than the prior president did in his first fifty days in office and that's hurt his numbers more. I mean, what exactly was Bush pre-9/11? I sure don't recall anything noteworthy.

[ShortnFiery]

19. I don't fully trust any M$M poll. Add 10 points and that might reflect reality.

:(

[treestar]

23. And no constant media drumbeat trying to lower them

for Bush. Pre 911. The President is generally going to be popular when there is nothing big going wrong.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

24. But he still has 30 points on the opposition, something Bush did not enjoy

All politicians are down because the country's a wreck and still divided by the effects of Rovian politics.

But the Dems are miles ahead of the GOP with the public.

Also, bear in mind Obama is way up in all regions, except the south (which is lockstep GOP country anyway) - which deflates his national numbers a bit.

He's in a much better position than Bush was at 8 years ago.

[Peacetrain]

6. ~passing the tums~

Faux's days are numbered at the rate they are going..

[cutlassmama]

7. I think Obama's real number is at 72%

That's what I saw on a poll a couple of days ago.

[and-justice-for-all]

8. LOL!! Obama is far more popular than POTUS usually is...

and fucked news always lies and exaggerates, They are the National Enquirer of Tv.

[ShortnFiery]

20. CNN and MSNBC are not much better. They obfuscate and distract.

:thumbsdown:

[LiberalPersona]

9. Still 10% higher than

Bush's was at this point in his second term, and about the same as his first term.

Also, notably higher than Reagan's and Clinton's first terms.

[Marsala]

11. Good news for John McCain!

He may win the election yet come, uh, last November.

[Hansel]

13. Oh noes! Maybe he should issue a terror alert to get them back up again.

Worked for Bush. :shrug:

[PBS Poll-435]

14. Looks pretty stable to me

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

[jillan]

15. I am waiting for fux to give Obama credit for the stock market going up, since it was all his fault

when it went down . . . according to them.

[cooolandrew]

16. It's them clinging to hope. I guess they need a little sunshine they'll thank us in the end in a >

begrudging way.

[quidam56]

17. Hannity and O'Reilly say Obama's a failed Presidency

They used to be funny, now they are just a JOKE... http://www.wisecountyissues.com

[Jennicut]

22. Right...failure in a little over 50 days.

Give me a f*cking break.

[ShortnFiery]

18. The entire CORPORATE M$M is hoping and praying that they can MAKE IT SO.

Don't buy into the bullshit. Remember, there's never been such an unequal distribution of wealth in the USA since the 1920s. POWER and GREED does not give of themselves toward "the common good" without a knock down, drag out FIGHT.

Be advised and don't be FOOLED by the PROPAGANDA and PUSH POLLS. :patriot:

[treestar]

21. Notice they make no mention of how high those numbers are

They are still very high.