On the plus side his approval amongst the crippled and dependent pets is at an all time high.
Look...the democrat strategy is pretty clear and pretty simple. They WANT unemployment at around 14-16 % . They want the crippled and dependent pets out of work and they need to maintain a balance of middle to upper income folks that can pay for the pathetic dependent class.
What? A crappy economy never goes well for the incumbent. Hell, if unemployment were down to 6% that approval rating would probably double.
He doesnt care about his approval rating. He cares about power. He is going to stay in power by keeping the muppets dependent on big government.
Aren't a lot of the independents former Republicans anyway?
so if Obama only picks up the 38% who currently approve of him, then the Republicans win fairly handily in 2010, and then again in 2012.
just a question; but what are the other 5% of Americans? third party?
You just added yourself to the "Don't take me seriously" list with that one.Rasmussen isn't a real pollster. .
You just added yourself to the "Don't take me seriously" list with that one.
They aren't. They're pretty much always like 7-15% off from the rest of the pack. Scott Rasmussen actually gets paid, literally, by the RNC... Use one of the services that averages out all the polls- Pollster.com - Political Surveys and Election Polls, Trends, Charts and Analysis
Huffington Post Buys Pollster.comNew York Times:
The Huffington Post is venturing into the wonky but increasingly popular territory of opinion poll analysis, purchasing Pollster.com, a widely respected aggregator of poll data that has been a major draw for the Web site of The National Journal.
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Is Rasmussen Reports Biased?There's a big, slow-news-weekend story over at Politico today over allegations made by certain Democrats and liberals that the prolific polling firm Rasmussen Reports is biased toward conservative and Republican causes. I have to catch a flight (weather permitting) in a couple of hours, so I don't have quite as much time to weigh in on this as I'd like, but let me present the Cliff's Notes version.
So YOUR source for serious polling is owned by Huffpo, but that's cool.
You hear some lies and misinformation about Rassmussen and you buy it hook, line and sinker.
No, you don't understand. pollster doesn't do the polls, they amalgamate the polls every polling agency does. Real clear politics does the same and gets pretty much the same numbers:
RealClearPolitics - Election Other - President Obama Job Approval
Nope... You don't need to hear anything to figure out Rasmussen's deal.. It's all public record. Just look at how their poll results compare to the other polling agencies. Why do you think they're always like 7-15 pionts to the right of the numbers everybody else posts? Well, it's pretty obvious... It's because their founder and CEO is literally on the payroll of the RNC and has been for years. You can just look it up. Politicians and political parties are required by law to publish that info: Consultants - The Center for Public Integrity
So you say that Huffpo's purchase means nothing, GOT IT!
Rassmussen uses likely voters, not registered voters.
It's not really 38%. Rasmussen isn't a real pollster.
well okay, what think you of James Carville's polling agency giving Republicans a 48-42% lead among likely voters, that 56% think of Obama as 'too liberal' and that 55% consider him a socialist?
Here i'll interject that most people have no concept of what socialism is . . . and many think it's bad.
I think he's a socialist, yep.
But I don't jump to false conclusions about what that is - I don't say that with a negative connotation.
Socialism is a legitimate system of goverment/economics. It can be corrupt, abused or golden just like anything else.
Socialism is inherently evil, and most freedom and liberty loving people realize this and reject it.
No - aside from when any system is abused Socialism is only evil when someone who *isn't* a socialist is looking at it.
If you were born into a socialist country you'd likely see our system as being evil and corrupt :shrug:\
I don't think it's *wrong* in general - I think it's *wrong* for us because we're not founded on socialist principles.
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