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Obama's approval rating at 45%

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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 30% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11

Somehow, "I told you so" just doesn't cut it.

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports
 
This is what happens when your entire resume can be sritten in 18-point type on a single square of toilet paper.....with white space to spare.

The country has no confidence in this rookie to understand or solve anything.
 
Rasmussen is biased and a GOP tool, etc.

No, it's actually the best polling organization out there, here's my evidence, etc.

It's much better to use the average of all the polls because you get a better number that way.

Those other polls use "all adults" rather than "likely voters," which results in a distorted sample.

Rasmussen is still an outlier

Not really. Zogby International

President Barack Obama's job approval rating is down to 42%, with a decline in approval from Democrats the leading factor.

The latest Zogby Interactive poll of 4,518 likely voters conducted from August 28-31 found 48% disapprove and 42% approve of the job Obama is doing.

Just trying to save some time.
 
Even Zogby has PBO's approval rating at 42%. Ya can't call John Zogby a Right Wing crazy.

Zogby International

Zogby's polls are not even used by major outlets anymore because they have been so inaccurate the last couple of years. He uses only published numbers for his telephone polls and self selected participants for his online polls.

I think its ridiculous for either side to pick and choose the polls they want. Why not just go to Real Clear Politics and look at the rolling average between all of them.
 
Zogby's polls are not even used by major outlets anymore because they have been so inaccurate the last couple of years. He uses only published numbers for his telephone polls and self selected participants for his online polls.

I think its ridiculous for either side to pick and choose the polls they want. Why not just go to Real Clear Politics and look at the rolling average between all of them.

Pick a poll and no matter which one you pick, the numbers are going down, fast.
 
And another conservative sites Rasmussen. Why am I not surprised.
 
I really don't think polls are that important at this poit in time. As election season comes yeah there value goes upp
 
I bet when Ramussen, Gallop and Zogby were putting GB at 28%, the Libbos were hailing those numbers as the most accurate in history. Now, when things are going against their boy, it's all BS.
 
I really don't think polls are that important at this poit in time. As election season comes yeah there value goes upp

The midterms are just right around the corner. If I were coming up for -re-election and the president whose ass I kissed for over a year was losing points by the day, I would be very worried about my chances.

PBO's going to need something big to salvage his numbers. Something big enough for him to be able to say, "Yeah, I'm a socialist asshole, but when the chips are down, I can git'er done.".
 
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I bet when Ramussen, Gallop and Zogby were putting GB at 28%, the Libbos were hailing those numbers as the most accurate in history. Now, when things are going against their boy, it's all BS.

Pretty amazing that Bush went from a high of 87% job approval rating to a low of 24% don't ya think?
 
I bet when Ramussen, Gallop and Zogby were putting GB at 28%, the Libbos were hailing those numbers as the most accurate in history. Now, when things are going against their boy, it's all BS.

At the time, you had every poll out there giving him below 30% approval ratings. That's the difference.
 
At the time, you had every poll out there giving him below 30% approval ratings. That's the difference.

And, now, we have every poll within a few points of each other. What's the difference?
 
Pretty amazing that Bush went from a high of 87% job approval rating to a low of 24% don't ya think?

Not nearly as amazing that PBO has lost 30 plus points in 7 months and losing more, everyday.

PBO's going to need a 9/11 to ever see an accent in his poll numbers.
 
Not nearly as amazing that PBO has lost 30 plus points in 7 months and losing more, everyday.

PBO's going to need a 9/11 to ever see an accent in his poll numbers.

We shall see where it goes. At this point in time though I'm not putting to much stock in polls.
 
Zogby's polls are not even used by major outlets anymore because they have been so inaccurate the last couple of years. He uses only published numbers for his telephone polls and self selected participants for his online polls.

I think its ridiculous for either side to pick and choose the polls they want. Why not just go to Real Clear Politics and look at the rolling average between all of them.

Because most of those polls use ****ty methodologies. I don't give a **** what "all adults" think, because "all adults" don't vote. Furthermore, an average of polls is statistically not any more likely to be accurate than any individual poll.

And another conservative sites Rasmussen. Why am I not surprised.

You shouldn't be surprised, because it's a good polling company that uses a methodology that reflects lower numbers than most other polls. Rather than attacking Rasmussen based on that, why not just recognize that fact and let it go?
 
I bet when Ramussen, Gallop and Zogby were putting GB at 28%, the Libbos were hailing those numbers as the most accurate in history. Now, when things are going against their boy, it's all BS.

Nobody is saying they are bs, it's just when you guys only pick the polls that show the lowest numbers, it makes you look overly partisan.

Even the Fox News polls have Obama at 53% approval.

Why not use the 51% avg to at least appear to be fair?


Not nearly as amazing that PBO has lost 30 plus points in 7 months and losing more, everyday.

That would be amazing if even close to the truth.

Anyway, show me a republican frontrunner even close to 50% approval and then i'll worry. :cool:
 
Somehow, "I told you so" just doesn't cut it.

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports

I'm just curious, when did you tell us so?

And what exactly did you tell us; that Obama's approval rating would drop below its election-night high?

Is this actually breaking news? Because it seems to me that simple logic would dictate that the President's approval rating would fluctuate throughout the course of his term. Sometimes it goes down; sometimes it goes up; sometimes it just sits and hovers somewhere for awhile. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Did someone insist to you that it was going to stay at 65% (or whatever it was) for all time and eternity?
 
I'm just curious, when did you tell us so?

And what exactly did you tell us; that Obama's approval rating would drop below its election-night high?

Is this actually breaking news? Because it seems to me that simple logic would dictate that the President's approval rating would fluctuate throughout the course of his term. Sometimes it goes down; sometimes it goes up; sometimes it just sits and hovers somewhere for awhile. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Did someone insist to you that it was going to stay at 65% (or whatever it was) for all time and eternity?

Thank you for taking my broad, blanket statement to task. I was merely implying that there were those of us who saw through the media hype pre-election. Not all of us were convinced that PBO was the savior of the free world. Judging by the consistently dropping poll numbers, more people are becoming aware of that daily.

...and yes, it's headline news...just like it was every week with GWB's poll numbers.
 
Wasn't Clinton inthe 40s according to some polls when he got reelcted to his second term?
 
I was merely implying that there were those of us who saw through the media hype pre-election. Not all of us were convinced that PBO was the savior of the free world.

Y'know, I don't recall anyone in the mainstream media ever advocating that "Obama is the savior of the free world." I don't even think that was ever implied. Such drivel certainly never came from the Obama campaign.

Perhaps your inference meter is glitchy.
 
Y'know, I don't recall anyone in the mainstream media ever advocating that "Obama is the savior of the free world." I don't even think that was ever implied. Such drivel certainly never came from the Obama campaign.

Perhaps your inference meter is glitchy.

Perhaps...not so glitchy though as to be sucked in by all the hype and think that the government was going to fix all my problems.

On the bright side, it's hard for me to be disappointed in a President that I never had any expectations for.
 
Perhaps...not so glitchy though as to be sucked in by all the hype and think that the government was going to fix all my problems.

Which hype, exactly, stated (or even implied) that "The government is going to fix all your problems?" Do you have links?
 
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