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What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls

Grim17

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It looks as though the American people are not too happy about "Hope & Change", as the polls are indicating. What's funny here is, it won't stop Pelosi and Reid from pushing their very unpopular agenda, because they still think they know whats best for America.


What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Few nations are as generous with their time and money as the United States, but right now Americans are a suspicious bunch.

Sixty-six percent (66%) of voters nationwide say they’re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. Thirty-six percent (36%) are Very Angry.
Despite the high level of political anger last year that helped fuel President Obama’s election, 59% say the current level of political anger in the country is higher than it was when George W. Bush was president.

A lot of that anger is directed at the people who are spending billions and billion of dollars of taxpayer money. That helps explain why members of Congress have now surpassed corporate CEOs to hold the least favorably regarded profession in the country.

Just 16% of voters give Congress good or excellent ratings now that it's back from a rough-and-tumble August recess. That’s down seven points from its highest rating of 2009, reached in late May. Fifty-three (53%) percent say Congress is doing a poor job.

Obama’s Approval Index ratings remain in negative territory as well in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.
 
I really thought the American public throwing the Obama agenda overboard would prompt a discussion...

I guess even the left has now accepted this fact, along with the rest of us.

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I really thought the American public throwing the Obama agenda overboard would prompt a discussion...

I guess even the left has now accepted this fact, along with the rest of us.

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Why are people mad if Obama said he was going to spend billions of dollars?
 
The gallup says Obama's approval rating is 51% so what's the big deal again? Why wouldn't Pelosi and Reid push their agenda if people like a president who's also very democratic?

http://www.gallup.com/home.aspx
 
I really thought the American public throwing the Obama agenda overboard would prompt a discussion...

I guess even the left has now accepted this fact, along with the rest of us.

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I have a question for you: What makes you think that a disapproval of Congress translates into a disapproval of Democratic policies? The American people are perpetually angry at Congress. The institution has received approval ratings comparable to anthrax for well over a decade (probably longer).

Presumably, some of those people who disapprove of Congress are A) mad at the REPUBLICANS in Congress, B) mad at the Democrats in Congress for giving in too much and/or not fighting for whatever issue, C) mad at no one or no policies in particular. Congress' approval rating is a meaningless statistic, as it is not a monolithic entity and no one votes for the ENTIRE Congress anyway.
 
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Um, because a party is not a person?

Just because someone approves of Obama doesn't mean that they have to approve of Reid or Pelosi.

I hate to break it to you but people in the same party generally believe in pretty much the same thing. Besides, if people approve Obama's policies they will approve of Pelosi's and Reid's too probably, why wouldn't they?
 
Oh, my bad. The polls actually mean that Obama and the Democrats are winning the hearts and minds of America's independents. Sure, that's not what the polls indicate, but hey - it sure sounds good?
 
Oh, my bad. The polls actually mean that Obama and the Democrats are winning the hearts and minds of America's independents. Sure, that's not what the polls indicate, but hey - it sure sounds good?

Who said anything about Independents? Last time I checked the only thing that matters in elections is the majority and Obama has that.
 
I hate to break it to you but people in the same party generally believe in pretty much the same thing. Besides, if people approve Obama's policies they will approve of Pelosi's and Reid's too probably, why wouldn't they?

Nope. Pelosi and Reid both have much lower job approval ratings than Obama.
 
Nope. Pelosi and Reid both have much lower job approval ratings than Obama.

Congressmen always have lower approval ratings than the president when the country as a whole voted but I guarentee you their constituents don't give them a low approval rating.
 
I have a question for you: What makes you think that a disapproval of Congress translates into a disapproval of Democratic policies?

Well, they are against all the spending... Against Cap & Trade... Against government run health care... And according to the last poll, the American public trusts republicans on 8 of the 10 top issues in America.

That's how I translate that.

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Well, they are against all the spending.

Really? Define "all the spending" please.

Grim17 said:
Against Cap & Trade

Cap and trade hasn't even been in the news since about February; it's been all about health care. I doubt most Americans even know what the phrase means.

Grim17 said:
Against government run health care.

You have consistent polling data showing this?

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And according to the last poll, the American public trusts republicans on 8 of the 10 top issues in America.

What issues, and by what margin?
 
obama's negatives are consistently over 40%

that's always been suicide

it's why his own party is ditching him

rockefeller and wyden each introduced amendments to baucus last week trying to revive the public option

baucus abruptly cancelled committee the next day, citing yom kippur

the gatekeeper didn't know by thursday that atonement starts today?

health care is dead

today, on the sunday talks, NOT A WORD about the impossible issue

today was FOREIGN POLICY SUNDAY, and it was a disaster

not one voice today could call obama's foreign policy a success

afghanistan---he's been sitting on a secret assessment for a month, misleading the public by saying he's waiting for his top-to-bottom review (which bob woodward outed on monday), saying he's not yet been asked for more troops (the worst kept secret in washington), he's publicly pressuring his generals to hold off on their reports cuz he doesn't want to be boxed in, his call for a new strategy contradicts his proclamation on march 27 which he called his "comprehensive new strategy," the pentagon's press secty admits either gates or obama requested mcchrystal and petraeus "scrub" their assessments clean...

no one believes him---stephanopoulos, woodward, friedman, carville...

iran---he tried to pass off his no-nukes poetry on thursday in the security council while he's known all along since inauguration day about qom, he's counting on the russians and chinese bailing him out, his policy of personal diplomacy with ahmedinejad is a joke, on march 21 he blew the iranians a kiss for nowruz even while he was at the time in full knowledge of the existence of qom...

gitmo---nuff said

domestic terror plots---obama sounds like bush on the need to empower our intel gathering capabilities, his reversals on the patriot act, he sounds like bush in his readiness to swallow (suddenly) what the cia has to say...

no one believes him

gregory, matthews, odonnell, williams...

FOREIGN POLICY SUNDAY was a disaster for the president

his negatives appear permanently above 40%

no national politician has ever survived such
 
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obama's negatives are consistently over 40%

that's always been suicide

it's why his own party is ditching him

rockefeller and wyden each introduced amendments to baucus last week trying to revive the public option

baucus abruptly cancelled committee the next day, citing yom kippur

the gatekeeper didn't know by thursday that atonement starts today?

health care is dead

today, on the sunday talks, NOT A WORD about the impossible issue

today was FOREIGN POLICY SUNDAY, and it was a disaster

not one voice today could call obama's foreign policy a success

afghanistan---he's been sitting on a secret assessment for a month, misleading the public by saying he's waiting for his top-to-bottom review (which bob woodward outed on monday), saying he's not yet been asked for more troops (the worst kept secret in washington), he's publicly pressuring his generals to hold off on their reports cuz he doesn't want to be boxed in, his call for a new strategy contradicts his proclamation on march 27 which he called his "comprehensive new strategy," the penatagon's press secty admits either gates or obama requested mcchrystal and petraeus "scrub" their assessments clean...

no one believes him---stephanopoulos, woodward, friedman, carville...

iran---he tried to pass off his no-nukes poetry on thursday in the security council while he's known all along since inauguration day about qom, he's counting on the russians and chinese bailing him out, his policy of personal diplomacy with ahmedinejad is a joke, on march 21 he blew the iranians a kiss for nowruz even while he was at the time in full knowledge of the existence of qom...

gitmo---nuff said

domestic terror plots---obama sounds like bush on the need to empower our intel gathering capabilities, his reversals on the patriot act, he sounds like bush in his readiness to swallow (suddenly) what the cia has to say...

no one believes him

gregory, matthews, odonnell, williams...

FOREIGN POLICY SUNDAY was a disaster for the president

his negatives appear permanently above 40%

no national politician has ever survived such

It doesn't matter how high is negative is if his approval rating is 51%.
 
Obviously not if this poll says differently.
I would say that Obama's policies include the expansion of government. Though a majority say that is/would be a bad thing.

Americans More Likely to Say Government Doing Too Much

Obama's pet money-for-free-plan, seen as a failure.

36% Say Stimulus Plan Has Helped Economy - Rasmussen Reports

Missle shield.

31% Agree With Decision To Halt Anti-Missile Shield, 38% Disagree - Rasmussen Reports

Health-care.

Health Care Reform - Rasmussen Reports

(Highest number, to be fair - I think WSJ/NBC found a 51% disapproval rate?)

I accept your apology.
 
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