Comments on: Obama’s Likely Voter Approval Index Drops After House Passes ObamaCare

By: louesc

louesc — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:57:01 +0000

You know he is tanking here check what the world thinks. This article shows that with all of Obama Appeasement Equals Weakness. Please bare in mind that this article is against Israel and I am Pro Israeli and support Israel in all that they do to protect there great Nation. Israel is one of Americas greatest Allies. I posted this article to show you how the world views Obama’s weak Foreign Policy.

https://www.americanpatriotsprevail.com/Obama_Appeasement_Equals.html

Reject Tyranny and Defend Liberty!

By: clowngirl

clowngirl — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:07:26 +0000

Rasmussen is currently showing a 10 point gap between those who strongly approve of Obama and those who strongly disapprove with the numbers favoring our side. His approval has dipped as low as -14.

Rasmussen has noted that when Obama’s numbers plunged before the approval index was an early indicator that wound up being predicative of the later drop in the overall numbers.

so be of good cheer.

By: clowngirl

clowngirl — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:00:51 +0000

and 47% a couple of times recently as well. Also he recently tied his longest ever streak of double digit negatives on the approval index. ( all according to Rasmussen)

I agree that his approval is kept afloat by Democrats and left leaning Independents – and so long as they stay loyal Democrats they’ll likely stay in at least the “somewhat approve” category. For Obama to go below 40% some of the moderate Democrats and Left Leaning Independents need to move to the right. The relatively low number who say they “strongly approve” suggests there’s a huge demographic ready to hear a compelling case for why they should vote Republican,

By: Dan Perrin

Dan Perrin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:56:56 +0000

will make the voters remember and care.

Does anyone think that health care reform will not be THE biggest issue in the next election?

By: Dan Perrin

Dan Perrin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:55:29 +0000

Democrats on certain issues, like health care reform.

It may signal weakening

By: Dan Perrin

Dan Perrin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:54:06 +0000

the “I don’t like his policies” but he’s OK, will turn on Obama, especially if the economy keeps tanking

By: Dan Perrin

Dan Perrin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:52:00 +0000

n/t

By: mikefisk

mikefisk — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:36:53 +0000

Due to political correctness, people will give President Obama a bit more benefit of the doubt. Heck, even I did, I must admit… until he proved to me, as pretty much every politician does, that any faith I had in him was misplaced (although even still, I wasn’t expecting a great job; just an uncomfortably mediocre job would’ve sufficed – about all the more I could expect from a Democratic President).

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:37:16 +0000

…or anywhere near there, then this nation is in far deeper dog-squeeze that I had thought.

It appears guv’mint edjamicashun has finally brought this nation to the brink. We have become a nation half populated by morons.

How sad.

-Dave

By: jeannieology

jeannieology — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:40:22 +0000

and Rahm explains to him with a ball peen hammer in one hand and an out dated dental drill in the other that it would be in his best interest to make Obama’s approval rating look a tad better…if that doesn’t work the table saw and the large construction size plastic bags and a shovel should convince the honest pollster.

www.jeannie-ology.com

By: Scope

Scope — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:58:13 +0000

n/t

By: crosley

crosley — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:54:01 +0000

Senators have much more independence than House members, and I think Universal Health Care will fail in the Senate simply because it will end about 8-10 Senators careers if Democrats need to get 60 votes.

We only need 1-2 Democrats to defect in order to kill it (and maybe not even that, if Lieberman keeps his word, we won’t need a single Democrat Senator to defect). I also think the Health care and Insurance industries are going to finally get off their duff and kill this, they stand to lose TRILLIONS of dollars.

I think the abortion issue though is really a non-issue. I’m just counting on the final bill to have language in it that restricts funding. They’re not going to let abortion derail this, it’s a painless sacrifice. The liberals that say they won’t for any bill that doesn’t contain abortion funding are bluffing, they’re not going to miss a chance to make “history” over such a trivial issue that they can easily come back to later.

By: IJB

IJB — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:48:03 +0000

…That there are 30% *of Independents* who still back Obama.

But that’s not 30% of the total electorate – it’s just 30% of Independents. (And, I would guess, Independents make up roughly 40% of the total electorate – so 0.3*40% = 12%: so I guess 12% of the total electorate would be Left-leaning Independents.)

If you took all them out of Obama’s Approval score, leaving just registered Democrats, I guess that would take Obama down to about ~37% Approval.

Anyway, I don’t think he’ll lose these types unless and until ObamaCare goes down to defeat…

By: Scope

Scope — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:34:19 +0000

how can you not like a President’s policies or his handling of domestic and foreign issues, yet still say, but he’s still a nice guy. Is that political correctness also? I didn’t think we still had high school popularity contests

By: Scope

Scope — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:34:19 +0000

By: Ausonius

Ausonius — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:32:51 +0000

Under another topic I wrote yesterday:

“At some point the mushy middling moderates, who voted for MAObama out of liberal guilt, might find the courage to admit their mistake to pollsters.

I suspect he is really below 50% in favorability right now, but that the numbers are inflated because – even anonymously on the telephone – some “white” people do not want to admit they are against his policies.”

Allow me to postulate that as many as 5-10% of the voters will not admit that he is no longer their man, or that he never was. No proof, just a feeling I have from dealing with people in the context of polite discussion of political opinions.

By: Scope

Scope — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:29:44 +0000

if I understand you, if you take away say 30% of the Independents from his 50% approval rating, he only has 20% of strong Democrat support, which is his base? I really do think that even more of those 30% Independents will slide off his moonbeams sooner rather than later. I’m not so sure it will take a major catastrophe to make it happen.

BTW- Now Anita Dunn, his Communications head, and Maoist, is stepping down.

By: Scope

Scope — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:29:29 +0000

BTW- Now Anita Dunn, his Communications head, and Maoist, is stepping down.

By: mikefisk

mikefisk — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:23:49 +0000

…Obama’s job approval ratings are Bush’s in reverse, or a quasi-mirror-image of Clinton’s.

NBC recently did a poll of Obama’s approval on dealing with certain issues, and none of the issues they listed showed an approval rating above 41% (most were between 36-38%). People are simply divorcing their personal approval of him from their policy approval of him.

Bush tended to, especially in the last couple of years of his administration, have higher approval ratings on most issues than he did for an overall approval rating… people tended to go “I don’t really like him… but I can’t complain about how he’s handling immigration or homeland security”.

With Obama, it’s “I really don’t like his health care policy, his positions on immigration, or his foreign policy waffling… but he seems a nice enough guy.”

By: IJB

IJB — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:16:20 +0000

…Is that a significant portion of people who self-identify as “independents” are actually Leftie types who are not registered Democrats because they feel the Democrats are too *centrist*!! (There is a similar, though probably smaller, group of right-leaning independents who aren’t Republican-registered for similar reasons: a few of them show up around here actually.)

So, 30-40% of “Independents” are actually Democrat-leaning voters, who will abandon the Democrats for the occasional Green, Working Families Party or Peace & Freedom candidate (or who will stay home in a snit, under the right circumstances!).

These types are still with Obama.

So, while a majority of “Independents” – the true “centrists” and right-leaning independents – are Obama Disapprovers right now, the left-leaning Independents are still with him.

So, all Democrats (and, remember, there are more registered D’s than R’s nationally) + about 1/3 of Independents = 48-50% Approval ratings.

At least, that’s the best I can figure it.