Obama's Gallup approval rating creeps back above water

[scheming daemons]

Approve: 47%
Disapprove: 46%

http://www.gallup.com


His rating has been between 44% and 51% for every day of the Gallup tracking for over 8 months.


The people that approved, continue to do so. The people that didn't, continue not to.


7% of the population is wishy-washy and has no idea what they think.... i.e. They let the media narrative change their minds day to day.

[babylonsister]

1. And it's summer and a lot of people aren't paying the

slightest bit of attention to the President, Congress, nada and no one. They're up to their elbows in vacations, kids, whatever folks occupy themselves with in summer.

This doesn't sound at all bad to me.

[GreenTea]

2. Yes & many republicans still steal elections when Gallup has them down by 6 points on election day.

Fucking EASILY hackable electronic voting machines all throughout the south and elsewhere!

Go back to the future PAPER BALLOTS - like every other non dictatorship country in the world!

Polls mean nothing - it's who controls the bullshit polls that have the power to form opinion on the millions of weak minded - the go with the flow mentality - You know, SHEEP!

[DJ13]

3. Sounds like

A lot of thrashing about, but staying in the same place.

[Jennicut]

4. The independents move the approval rating. The Dems are hovering around 85%, the Rethugs have a very

low approval of Obama. A lot of indies are not as well informed and are driven by emotions relating to what is going on right now. Hence, the back and forth. Rasmussen, ironically, has had a higher approval rating the last two days at 48% but also a higher disapproval.

[JanetLovesObama]

5. President Obama is

gonna be just fine. He is the BEST ever !!
:thumbsup:

[RBInMaine]

6. It is all about the jobs numbers. They like him, but they are unhappy about the recession. You get

this number up, controlled mostly by Indies, by attacking the RePUKE plan to go back to Wall Street economics, with a powerful anti-Wall Street populist pro-working family message, and by relentlessly tying the PUKES to the TeaHaters. Even right of center indies aren't thrilled with Wall Street and the TeaScum.

[Alexander]

7. That 46% is about what McPalin got in 2008.

Seems like the 7% or so are on the fence about supporting him again, but will probably be easily persuaded if the next Republican ticket achieves the same epic fail status of the last one.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Who are the Republicans going to nominate

who isn't insane?? I can't think of anybody right now they could possibly run who would be a better candidate than McSame/Failin' and who could draw enough votes nationally to beat Obama. :eyes: The Republican Party, as it currently stands, seems like a sick joke of a party and, despite all of the corporate propaganda to the contrary, may not even do well enough to . President Obama and the Democratic Party may have their problems/flaws but they are the only ones actually TRYING to do something to help people. The fact that it isn't blindingly obvious to all those so-called "independents" out there is stunning given that the Republicans are doing nothing but obstruct any progress and refuse to offer alternative solutions (other than tax cuts, of course :eyes:). Things could certainly change that might change this assessment but, for the life of me, I can't imagine what. If they get their stuff together, they MIGHT have a viable candidate in 2016 (assuming they still exist) but my prediction for 2012 is that it will ultimately be a wash for the Republicans and that President Obama will easily win re-election running on the "sane" ticket.

[smalll]

9. Back underwater today -- approve 45%, disapprove 48%

And he had been underwater on Gallup daily tracking for two solid weeks before yesterday's one-day relief.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/gallup-daily-obama-job-approval.aspx

There's a lot of good polls out there for Dems now, particularly on individual Senate races. Obama's trends, however, are not good.

[scheming daemons]

10. Still between that 44% and 51% area that it has been in for the past 3/4 year

statistical noise... all within the same small range.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. what's the breakdown of this

i.e. what are the issues that are causing this my guess jobs for one.

[LAGC]

12. We need another, bigger stimulus.

Less tax breaks and more direct spending to hire some of these chronically unemployed workers off the streets and put them back to work at meaningful jobs that pay a decent wage. Obama talks the good talk about "green" alternative energy jobs, but what has he done so far to make that happen? The anemic stimulus so far has allowed the Republicans to make the claim that the stimulus did no good, and in fact harmed more than it helped. He needs to ignore them and go forward full-throttle by leading with government spending until the private sector can get back on its feet to pick up the slack and take back over many of those jobs.

The fact that we have have "99'ers" (people out of work and still actively looking for over 99 consecutive months) is a blight on this country. A real shame.