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Gallup Poll Shows Bump In Approval For Obama After Convention

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Seems he got a nice bump out of the convention...now we have to see if it holds up


Those looking for a convention bump may find what they are looking for in the Gallup daily tracking poll, which produced good news on Friday for President Barack Obama.

Gallup's last three nights of interviewing of adults, conducted Sept. 4 to 6, shows Obama with a 52 percent approval rating, the highest approval percentage reported for Obama on the Gallup tracking poll since May 2011, just after the killing of Osama bin Laden.



Gallup Poll Shows Bump In Approval For Obama After Convention
 
National poll averages have Obama up less than 1%. I wouldn't pop the cork yet.

Besides, the only polls that are legitimate and accurate are the ones I agree with. LOL!
 
Good news indeed. Lets see if this can stand the red hot heat of right wing vitriol fueled by the seemingly bottomless pockets of the Koch Brothers and their corporate allies through Election Day.

I tend to doubt it.
 
haymarket said:
Good news indeed. Lets see if this can stand the red hot heat of right wing vitriol fueled by the seemingly bottomless pockets of the Koch Brothers and their corporate allies through Election Day.

I tend to doubt it.
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I'm always so taken that you doubt Obama will win. I'm so sure he will. Just for comparison, did you think Walker would get recalled? I was sure he would be. You? (I'm looking for some tiny assurance that I may be wrong about Obama. ;) )
 
MaggieD said:
I'm always so taken that you doubt Obama will win. I'm so sure he will. Just for comparison, did you think Walker would get recalled? I was sure he would be. You? (I'm looking for some tiny assurance that I may be wrong about Obama. ;) )
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I hope you're right. But don't forget, Walker won his recall election. And it was primarily because of the millions and millions of dollars poured into the campaign by his fourteen billionaire buddies.
 
lpast said:
Seems he got a nice bump out of the convention...now we have to see if it holds up


Those looking for a convention bump may find what they are looking for in the Gallup daily tracking poll, which produced good news on Friday for President Barack Obama.

Gallup's last three nights of interviewing of adults, conducted Sept. 4 to 6, shows Obama with a 52 percent approval rating, the highest approval percentage reported for Obama on the Gallup tracking poll since May 2011, just after the killing of Osama bin Laden.



Gallup Poll Shows Bump In Approval For Obama After Convention
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Was this before or after Axlerod sicked the DOJ on them? :)


Tim-
 
Hicup said:
Was this before or after Axlerod sicked the DOJ on them? :)


Tim-
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I think it was after romney/ryan found out that they got NO bump at all from their convention....was too much lieing going on there for public to consume all in one sitting :)
 
MaggieD said:
I'm always so taken that you doubt Obama will win. I'm so sure he will. Just for comparison, did you think Walker would get recalled? I was sure he would be. You? (I'm looking for some tiny assurance that I may be wrong about Obama. ;) )
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Hoping for Walker to be recalled: YES. Expecting it: NOT REALLY but I still hoped just the same.

My powers of prediction seem to be less than perfect. So perhaps that is good for Obama?

I guess at my advanced age Maggie I don't expect the magic to work each and every time. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwgnDn8ez9g
 
Well, whoever wins will be my president and can count on my loyalty. I am so sick of all this division. It is unimaginable what we could get accomplished if the ideologies would cooperate and compromise. I believe America gets what it deserves. No shortage of stupid to be had these days.
 
haymarket said:
Hoping for Walker to be recalled: YES. Expecting it: NOT REALLY but I still hoped just the same.

My powers of prediction seem to be less than perfect. So perhaps that is good for Obama?

I guess at my advanced age Maggie I don't expect the magic to work each and every time. ;)

Little Big Man Chief Dan George Goes up to the mountain to - YouTube
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:rofl :rofl -- If you remember a movie THAT old, you are ancient!!! (I'm just messin' with ya', Hay. Ya' noes I luvs ya'.)
 
Captain America said:
Well, whoever wins will be my president and can count on my loyalty. I am so sick of all this division. It is unimaginable what we could get accomplished if the ideologies would cooperate and compromise. I believe America gets what it deserves. No shortage of stupid to be had these days.
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If Romney wins, we all have to hope he is the best president the nation has ever had and prosperity and peace will reign over the land. To wish him failure would identify one as an anti-American traitor and dirty dog of he lowest stripe.
 
MaggieD said:
:rofl :rofl -- If you remember a movie THAT old, you are ancient!!! (I'm just messin' with ya', Hay. Ya' noes I luvs ya'.)
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Ancient!?!?!?!?!? That was one of those new fangled talkie pictures.

Consarned it and dagnabit anyways.

Maggie - you are going to expose me as an old softie with all that mushie talk. ;):2wave:
 
haymarket said:
If Romney wins, we all have to hope he is the best president the nation has ever had and prosperity and peace will reign over the land. To wish him failure would identify one as an anti-American traitor and dirty dog of he lowest stripe.
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Or a republican congressman. Or a talk radio baffoon.

LOL!
 
MaggieD said:
I'm always so taken that you doubt Obama will win. I'm so sure he will. Just for comparison, did you think Walker would get recalled? I was sure he would be. You? (I'm looking for some tiny assurance that I may be wrong about Obama. ;) )
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Paschendale said:
I hope you're right. But don't forget, Walker won his recall election. And it was primarily because of the millions and millions of dollars poured into the campaign by his fourteen billionaire buddies.
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I hope Obama wins yet to me it looks tied and Romney will have hedge funds, big mid eastern oil funded corporations and big pharma donating hundreds of millions to PACs. Obama's economic policies hurt countries like China while he supports legislations for our manufacturing base and increased exports so I would think China would be funneling money into the Romney campaign.

I hope Obama wins ...yet whoever wins I just hope it is clear cut win and not some electoral ties or one states tied that would would make a difference and then we spend millions recounting votes.

I want whomever wins to win the popular vote and a clear electoral win so the outcome is clear. It would be nice to conclude that evening when all the ballots are in and start moving forward with whomever is the winner.

Why do people put faith in polls that run so close it is statistically insignificant.

To me it looks close and anything could happen. I do not want to see another replay of Bush/Gore with recounts and one wins the popular vote and one wins the electoral vote and recounts of Florida and Ohio and allegations of fraud. How much did that mess cost the tax payers?
 
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haymarket said:
If Romney wins, we all have to hope he is the best president the nation has ever had and prosperity and peace will reign over the land. To wish him failure would identify one as an anti-American traitor and dirty dog of he lowest stripe.
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Interesting. So when he brings out his policy goals of lowering taxes, reducing the regulatory burden, and reforming Medicare into a premium support model, you will be cheering along?
 
cpwill said:
Interesting. So when he brings out his policy goals of lowering taxes, reducing the regulatory burden, and reforming Medicare into a premium support model, you will be cheering along?
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There's a world of options between "cheering on" and "hoping America suffers because it makes the president look bad"
 
Deuce said:
There's a world of options between "cheering on" and "hoping America suffers because it makes the president look bad"
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There is indeed. But I was asking if he would want Romney to succeed in enacting his policy agenda.
 
cpwill said:
Interesting. So when he brings out his policy goals of lowering taxes, reducing the regulatory burden, and reforming Medicare into a premium support model, you will be cheering along?
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cpwill said:
There is indeed. But I was asking if he would want Romney to succeed in enacting his policy agenda.
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You are not understanding. He says we have to hope that the policies implemented succeed, not that he implements certain policies.
 
Redress said:
You are not understanding. He says we have to hope that the policies implemented succeed, not that he implements certain policies.
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I know; but he was implicitly denying the same logic to Republicans. I wanted to make sure he spelled out precisely what you just did so that I could demonstrate that his assumption there was incorrect.
 
cpwill said:
I know; but he was implicitly denying the same logic to Republicans. I wanted to make sure he spelled out precisely what you just did so that I could demonstrate that his assumption there was incorrect.
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So you are denying the great glee many republicans have when reporting bad economic numbers this year? No one said they want Obama's policies to fail? That is the kind of thing he is talking about.
 
Redress said:
So you are denying the great glee many republicans have when reporting bad economic numbers this year? No one said they want Obama's policies to fail? That is the kind of thing he is talking about.
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It is the kind of thing I am talking about. When Republicans point out bad numbers it is not because we are happy people are suffering, but because we want to emphasize them again and again and again in order to drive home the point that we desperately need a change in economic policy. We hammer home the economic problems that we are in because we want to change them, not sit around and glory in them. If you want people glorifying our economic bad news, go talk to the ones who seem dead-set on claiming that All Is Well. And when Rush said he wanted Obama to fail he was explicitly talking about failing in his attempts to achieve his policy goals; which is what both you and I have (seemingly) agreed is a legitimate stance for those who disagree on the efficacy of those policies.

:shrug: which is all I was really saying - that his implicit claim of moral superiority was in fact an unrecognized admission of moral equality.
 
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