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CNN Poll: Obama Underwater on Key Issues....

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The good news for Obama admirers? He's back at 51 percent overall approval in this survey -- as opposed to quite a lot of early 2013 polling. The bad news? His approval rating is upside down on virtually every major issue:

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Economy: 44% Approve, 54% Disapprove

Federal Budget Deficit: 38% Approve, 58% Disapprove

Taxes: 46% Approve, 52% Disapprove

Illegal Immigration: 44% Approve, 50% Disapprove

Gun Policy: 45% Approve, 52% Disapprove

Health care policy: 44% Approve, 54% Disapprove

Social Security and Medicare: 44% Approve, 52% Disapprove

Regardless, this dynamic reinforces how complex and difficult the politics of this issue can be. Finally, within the context of the president's belated budget release this week, the question of tax increases has again reared its head. His proposal presents some modest, and laudable, entitlement reform ideas -- which Obama will only embrace if Republicans agree to raise taxes again. The public isn't enamored with the president's position on either issue set, it appears.....snip~

CNN Poll: Obama Underwater on Key Issues - Guy Benson

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Obama down 7 points with his Gun issue. Plus now the public sees he wont compromise unless the Repubs do. Thoughts?
 
Thoughts---you are looking at the laundry list of red-herrings for the midterms. Hope it doesn't spoil the show for you.....
 
MMC said:
The good news for Obama admirers? He's back at 51 percent overall approval in this survey -- as opposed to quite a lot of early 2013 polling. The bad news? His approval rating is upside down on virtually every major issue:

2013-04-08t193702z_1_cbre9371ihv00_rtroptp_3_usa-obama-guns.jpg


Economy: 44% Approve, 54% Disapprove

Federal Budget Deficit: 38% Approve, 58% Disapprove

Taxes: 46% Approve, 52% Disapprove

Illegal Immigration: 44% Approve, 50% Disapprove

Gun Policy: 45% Approve, 52% Disapprove

Health care policy: 44% Approve, 54% Disapprove

Social Security and Medicare: 44% Approve, 52% Disapprove

Regardless, this dynamic reinforces how complex and difficult the politics of this issue can be. Finally, within the context of the president's belated budget release this week, the question of tax increases has again reared its head. His proposal presents some modest, and laudable, entitlement reform ideas -- which Obama will only embrace if Republicans agree to raise taxes again. The public isn't enamored with the president's position on either issue set, it appears.....snip~

CNN Poll: Obama Underwater on Key Issues - Guy Benson

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Obama down 7 points with his Gun issue. Plus now the public sees he wont compromise unless the Repubs do. Thoughts?
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But let's break that approval numbers down a bit futher, Democrats approval of Obama is at 85%, Independents/Swing voters at 41% and Republicans at 10%. It is the Independent/Swing Voters numbers that need to be looked at and kept track of, not just the overall number. Last November when the president won by 4 points, the approval rating among Independent/swing voters was at 49% and these voting block split their votes evenly 50-50 between him and Romney. The 4 point win was because more people identify/associate themselves with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party which back in November these numbers were 33% Democratic, 29% Republican. The rest identified themselves as independents.
 
MMC said:
The good news for Obama admirers? He's back at 51 percent overall approval in this survey -- as opposed to quite a lot of early 2013 polling. The bad news? His approval rating is upside down on virtually every major issue:

2013-04-08t193702z_1_cbre9371ihv00_rtroptp_3_usa-obama-guns.jpg


Economy: 44% Approve, 54% Disapprove

Federal Budget Deficit: 38% Approve, 58% Disapprove

Taxes: 46% Approve, 52% Disapprove

Illegal Immigration: 44% Approve, 50% Disapprove

Gun Policy: 45% Approve, 52% Disapprove

Health care policy: 44% Approve, 54% Disapprove

Social Security and Medicare: 44% Approve, 52% Disapprove

Regardless, this dynamic reinforces how complex and difficult the politics of this issue can be. Finally, within the context of the president's belated budget release this week, the question of tax increases has again reared its head. His proposal presents some modest, and laudable, entitlement reform ideas -- which Obama will only embrace if Republicans agree to raise taxes again. The public isn't enamored with the president's position on either issue set, it appears.....snip~

CNN Poll: Obama Underwater on Key Issues - Guy Benson

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Obama down 7 points with his Gun issue. Plus now the public sees he wont compromise unless the Repubs do. Thoughts?
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I wonder how his approval is over 50% when everything else

is below 50 %.??
 
I put no stock in polls for any politician or political issue.

You get stuck on polling and you lose sight of the issue itself and what is actually the right and wrong approach on the subject.

Sometimes the people get it wrong which isn't to say Obama is right in this case, just pointing that out.
 
Fisher said:
Thoughts---you are looking at the laundry list of red-herrings for the midterms. Hope it doesn't spoil the show for you.....
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The GOP won't win enough seats to regain the senate. It may be like this last election where the Republicans became their own worst enemy in whom they nominated. Guy like Akin and Mourdock lost seats that should have gone easily republican. Berg and Rehberg also lost because they were unpopular representatives that gained the GOP nomination.
 
penn1954 said:
I wonder how his approval is over 50% when everything else

is below 50 %.??
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It is the old I wouldn't mind having a beer with him effect.
 
Fisher said:
Thoughts---you are looking at the laundry list of red-herrings for the midterms. Hope it doesn't spoil the show for you.....
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It shouldn't.....the only other thing going on will be some baseball. :lol:
 
penn1954 said:
I wonder how his approval is over 50% when everything else

is below 50 %.??
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Well, everything else isn't everything. Ya got the blacks, the hispanics, the gays, the unions, the communists, the socialists, the materialists, the rabid hedonists, the wimmens, the poor, the soon to be poor, the poor sooner or later, the environmentalists, the media, the insane, and even democrats.
 
Perotista said:
But let's break that approval numbers down a bit futher, Democrats approval of Obama is at 85%, Independents/Swing voters at 41% and Republicans at 10%. It is the Independent/Swing Voters numbers that need to be looked at and kept track of, not just the overall number. Last November when the president won by 4 points, the approval rating among Independent/swing voters was at 49% and these voting block split their votes evenly 50-50 between him and Romney. The 4 point win was because more people identify/associate themselves with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party which back in November these numbers were 33% Democratic, 29% Republican. The rest identified themselves as independents.
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Then lets look at that is CNN.....which I am sure Team Obama notices. Wouldn't you say?
 
Jetboogieman said:
I put no stock in polls for any politician or political issue.

You get stuck on polling and you lose sight of the issue itself and what is actually the right and wrong approach on the subject.

Sometimes the people get it wrong which isn't to say Obama is right in this case, just pointing that out.
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Yeah that's understandable.....but I think it was Clinton that got the Demos to change their mindset over polling.
 
MMC said:
Then lets look at that is CNN.....which I am sure Team Obama notices. Wouldn't you say?
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I would, I am sure team Obama does too. But will it change the way they are doing things? I highly doubt it. November 2014 is still a long way off. Then remember Obama Care, when it was passed 58% was against and only 39% were in favor. What the public wanted or didn't want, team Obama paid no attention to it.

If I were on team Obama, I wouldn't pay much attention to these polls this far out. But if I were a senator scheduled to run for re-election in Nov of 2014, I would take a good look at them, but continue to back my president. Now around June or July of next year, then I might just change my stance depending on how the people of my state view these issues. Americans have a very short memory.
 
humbolt said:
Well, everything else isn't everything. Ya got the blacks, the hispanics, the gays, the unions, the communists, the socialists, the materialists, the rabid hedonists, the wimmens, the poor, the soon to be poor, the poor sooner or later, the environmentalists, the media, the insane, and even democrats.
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Hadn't thought of that !!:doh
 
Perotista said:
I would, I am sure team Obama does too. But will it change the way they are doing things? I highly doubt it. November 2014 is still a long way off. Then remember Obama Care, when it was passed 58% was against and only 39% were in favor. What the public wanted or didn't want, team Obama paid no attention to it.

If I were on team Obama, I wouldn't pay much attention to these polls this far out. But if I were a senator scheduled to run for re-election in Nov of 2014, I would take a good look at them, but continue to back my president. Now around June or July of next year, then I might just change my stance depending on how the people of my state view these issues. Americans have a very short memory.
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We will have to see with those 20 Democratic seats that are up. Also like with Donnelly out of Indiana. Might as well consider it a one time hold.
 
Wow, you guys are finally making some headway now that you don't have a candidate screwing things up for you. WTG I knew you could do it. The good news is I think this is a great sign you will be able to get Obama out of the white house next term, and now all you have to do is to find a candidate who can beat the democrats.
 
penn1954 said:
Hadn't thought of that !!:doh
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Those folks will support Obama no matter what. Course, Obama lost on sequestration and he's going to lose his gun thing. That's two strikes. One more, and he's truly as irrelevant as Canada John says he already is. That teetering colossus called Obamacare may already be proving impossible, which would be strike three.
 
humbolt said:
Those folks will support Obama no matter what. Course, Obama lost on sequestration and he's going to lose his gun thing. That's two strikes. One more, and he's truly as irrelevant as Canada John says he already is. That teetering colossus called Obamacare may already be proving impossible, which would be strike three.
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We can only hope !!:2dance:
 
humbolt said:
Those folks will support Obama no matter what. Course, Obama lost on sequestration and he's going to lose his gun thing. That's two strikes. One more, and he's truly as irrelevant as Canada John says he already is. That teetering colossus called Obamacare may already be proving impossible, which would be strike three.
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Not to mention he first has to get a budget that can pass his Democrats.....so far not one has voted for any of his budgets. So that will be another strike. Then once the penalties all kick in with Obamacare and the poor and the middleclass discover they got screwed. Well.....lets hope he will be able to finish out his term stuttering to himself about what went wrong.
 
MMC said:
We will have to see with those 20 Democratic seats that are up. Also like with Donnelly out of Indiana. Might as well consider it a one time hold.
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With a decent candidate, the GOP should pick up West Virginia and South Dakota with the retirements of Rockerfeller and Johnson. Louisiana, North Carolina and Alaska are rated toss ups at this point in time. Begich, Hagan and Landrieu are all vulnerable, but the right candidate has to be nominated.
 
MMC said:
The good news for Obama admirers? He's back at 51 percent overall approval in this survey -- as opposed to quite a lot of early 2013 polling. The bad news? His approval rating is upside down on virtually every major issue:

2013-04-08t193702z_1_cbre9371ihv00_rtroptp_3_usa-obama-guns.jpg


Economy: 44% Approve, 54% Disapprove

Federal Budget Deficit: 38% Approve, 58% Disapprove

Taxes: 46% Approve, 52% Disapprove

Illegal Immigration: 44% Approve, 50% Disapprove

Gun Policy: 45% Approve, 52% Disapprove

Health care policy: 44% Approve, 54% Disapprove

Social Security and Medicare: 44% Approve, 52% Disapprove

Regardless, this dynamic reinforces how complex and difficult the politics of this issue can be. Finally, within the context of the president's belated budget release this week, the question of tax increases has again reared its head. His proposal presents some modest, and laudable, entitlement reform ideas -- which Obama will only embrace if Republicans agree to raise taxes again. The public isn't enamored with the president's position on either issue set, it appears.....snip~

CNN Poll: Obama Underwater on Key Issues - Guy Benson

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Obama down 7 points with his Gun issue. Plus now the public sees he wont compromise unless the Repubs do. Thoughts?
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Good afternoon, MMC. :2wave:

It's indeed strange that BHO can have an overall approval rating while at the same time have a major disapproval rating on most issues! I always thought the way issues were handled was what defined the Presidency. Does this survey mean that he's probably considered likeable enough by the public, but on major issues, the majority doesn't agree with him on anything? It would be interesting to see how the poll questions were worded, and who was polled.

These are odd poll results for a POTUS, since that job is usually defined by how often people agree with what he is doing, but it does confirm that 51 percent of the people think they want a TV-type showman who makes smiling promises to them, and has excuses when they are not kept. Americans must be unique, as well as endlessly forgiving of failure, since other countries always hold their politicians responsible for their actions, and either vote them out or remove them by other means, as we've seen. Go figure... :shock:
 
polgara said:
Good afternoon, MMC. :2wave:

It's indeed strange that BHO can have an overall approval rating while at the same time have a major disapproval rating on most issues! I always thought the way issues were handled was what defined the Presidency. Does this survey mean that he's probably considered likeable enough by the public, but on major issues, the majority doesn't agree with him on anything? It would be interesting to see how the poll questions were worded, and who was polled.

These are odd poll results for a POTUS, since that job is usually defined by how often people agree with what he is doing, but it does confirm that 51 percent of the people think they want a TV-type showman who makes smiling promises to them, and has excuses when they are not kept. Americans must be unique, as well as endlessly forgiving of failure, since other countries always hold their politicians responsible for their actions, and either vote them out or remove them by other means, as we've seen. Go figure... :shock:
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Ah the Lady Polgara
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Indeed I figure it is that Popularity Rating that gives him a better mark. As if he is polling against Hollywood Celebs for the Award of Best Actor to Portray a President who was Cool. :cool:

I figured I would throw this up considering whos poll it was just so that it could be out there with that CBS poll and especially over the gun issue. Since Obama has a different reality as to what a majority is.
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