An astounding new poll conducted by Research 2000 (Daily Kos) highlights some of the absurd opinions about President Obama held by a LARGE portion of the current incarnation of the republican party. Therein lies the problem of today’s political climate. In order to justify their opposition to President Obama these people consciously demonize the President. Rather than having the intellectual honesty to oppose his policies on their merits, these republicans act like a bunch of angry people who have never come to terms with being defeated in November 2008.
Instead of meeting President Obama halfway when he extends his hand they cut it off and eagerly spew forth the most preposterous claims, all while maintaining a straight face. To heck with the country, it is much more important to attempt to destroy the President at all costs. Take a look at some excerpts from this poll and try to understand the strange, alternate universe these respondents currently occupy.
1. Should Barack Obama be impeached?
Answer: 68% Yes or Not Sure
Based on what charge?? Absolutely unbelievable!!
2. Do you believe Barack Obama was born in the United States?
Answer: 58% No or Not Sure
3. Do you think Barack Obama is a socialist?
Answer: 79% Yes or Not Sure
4. Do you believe Barack Obama wants the terrorists to win?
Answer: 67% Yes or Not Sure
That’s why Obama has dramatically stepped up strikes against terrorists.
5. Do you believe Barack Obama is a racist who hates white people?
Answer: 64% Yes or Not Sure
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Florida Blogger,
First of all, I am not a Neocon – far from it. If you ever thumb through my articles, you will see how I consider Bush and Gingrich internationalist, anti-constitutionalists. You will also see how I’ve talked to JFesta about how, though we have the greatest military in the world, we need most of them here to protect our own borders and not 8,000 miles away meddling in someone else’s business.
Second, regardless of how old the Zogby poll is, the point is that it isn’t just the GOP who is griping about the President, it is Democrats also. A President’s popularity always rises slightly after a State of the Union address only to come back to reality shortly thereafter. Please remember that I got the Zogby poll from Arianna Huffington’s site, not a conservative blog site.
Regarding the President’s 50% approval rate, I guess that would depend on which poll you believe. Of course CBS and NBC are going to be among the highest since they are basically full of Establishment lackeys:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
Peace
Erik the Red:
1. I have no idea what you are talking about on that first comment. I guess that’s some inside joke you have with your neocon pals.
2. Nice move there slick. Citing a 5 month old Zogby Interactive poll, which shows exactly the opposite of the point that you were trying to make. The only only thing you “got straight” is that you showed everybody on here that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. This is from the MOST RECENT Zogby Interactive poll dated Feb 1, 2010:
“Less than a week after delivering his first State of the Union address and directly on the heels of his dramatic debate with Congressional Republicans, 50% approve of President Barack Obama’s job performance, new Zogby Interactive poll shows.” That is higher than the 5 month old poll that you cited.
That was almost insulting. When you come at me with right-wing spin, you’ve got to do a lot better than that. I’m actually a little embarrassed for you.
Consti Tution:
See my previous response where I provide a flood of facts released this past week which lead to optimism on the job front. I’m going to have change your name pretty soon from Consti Tution to Cherry Picker if you keep this up. I know it causes you physical pain and mental anguish to see that Obama is having some success on this issue.
Consti Tution:
LOL. I guess that 9.7% unemployment figure hit really hit a nerve! Time to hit you with the facts again and shred your cherry picking ways. It was a nice attempt to obscure the fact that Obama has had some success in stemming the flood of job losses handed to him by your party.
EMPLOYMENT: “The unemployment rate dropped unexpectedly in January to 9.7 percent, while employers shed 20,000 jobs, according to a report that offered hope the economy will add jobs soon. The unemployment rate dropped from 10 percent because a survey of households found the number of employed Americans rose by 541,000, the Labor Department said Friday.”
It’s odd that the following facts slipped your neocon fact checking. I’m sure it was just an oversight, but I’ll gladly fill everybody else in and let them decide whether or not you were trying to win an argument by providing incomplete, heavily-skewed information:
- “The figure for November was revised higher, however, to show a gain of 64,000 jobs. That was initially reported as a gain of 4,000.”
- “Much of January’s report offers hope that employers are starting to reverse course and may start adding jobs soon. Aside from November’s gain, January’s job losses were the smallest since the recession began and are down from the huge loss of 779,000 jobs in January 2009.”
- “The manufacturing sector added jobs for the first time since January 2007. Its gain of 11,000 jobs was the most since April 2006.”
- “Retailers added 42,100 jobs, the most since November 2007, before the recession began. Temporary help services gained 52,000 jobs, its fourth month of gains. That could signal future hiring, as employers usually hire temp workers before permanent ones.”
- “The average work week increased to 33.3 hours, from 33.2. That indicates employers are increasing hours for their current workers, a step that usually precedes new hiring.”
- “The number of part-time workers who want full-time work, but can’t find it, fell by almost 1 million. That lowered the “underemployment” rate, which also includes discouraged workers, to 16.5 percent from 17.3 percent.”
DEFICIT: “Being attacked on your home soil and subsequently having to fight two wars because of it will do that.” Having to fight???????? Is that supposed to be some lame attempt at right-wing humor again? Don’t ever use the phrase “having to fight” in connection with the disastrous, flawed decision to invade Iraq. That’s really rich. Nice try to slip that in though as a convenient excuse to cover for the fact that your party took a budget surplus and turned it into record deficits. To add insult to injury, the reason Afghanistan turned into a mess is because of neglect by the Bush Administration DUE to resources being focused on Iraq rather than Afghanistan. You have no credibility whasoever on deficits and are in absolutely no position to cry like a baby about it 1 year into the Obama administration. Your party opposes a deficit commission and has no credible plan to address the health care crisis which is guaranteed to bust future budgets. The bottom line is that your party has no credibility on budget deficits and even now opposes concrete action to tackle the issue. One year is a bit soon to deliver the verdict on Obama and deficits, especially considering where we were just one year ago. DEBT CEILING: It was raised many times during the Bush Administration, but I forgot it is no problem since it was done by a republican. It only becomes an issue when Obama has to due it while we are still trying to extract ourselves from the ecomomic calamity created by your party.
NO LONGER AT RISK OF FINANCIAL COLLAPSE: You say we are at 10% uemployment and holding. Actually we are at 9.7% and dropping. Does it ever get old being wrong so often? Bank Closures: Again, bank closures CREATED BY CONDITIONS put in place while Bush and the repubs were in power are only now concerning you, but somehow were no problem under Bush. Beyond hypocritical.
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: I notice you didn’t argue with the fact that Obama has been very effective at taking out targets and disrupting plots thus far. Actually, he has changed tactics significantly and I outlined some of those for you earlier. He is getting far better cooperation from countries abroad, has stepped up drone attacks, and even pulled off a very successful daring daylight raid in Somalia using U.S. helicopters, etc. I guess nobody informed you that the “underwear bomber” incident was a failed attempt in which nobody died. The shooting at Fort Hood WAS NOT an act of international terrorism. It was not planned or funded by an overseas terror group. He was not part of a sleeper cell. He was a U.S. citizen and a member of the U.S. military. Nice try again at trying to distort and play with the facts. If we were counting that kind of stuff I’d have to increase Bush’s numbers (LAX El Al incident, DC sniper, etc.). But I won’t do that because I’m not intellectually dishonest. I wish I could say the same for you.
You said “I am just pointing to the folly of your statements with the facts.” You have yet to refute any of the facts I have presented. Just because you think have, doesn’t make it so. Your desperation to confirm your point of view by using selective memory, selective “facts,” and making excuses for your party’s recent stunning failures is a little transparent. You also said “the recovery is not happening the way it was supposed to.” We’re kind of in uncharted territory here thanks to you guys. He’s doing the best he can to clean up your mess while your party fights him every step of the way. I think he’s done a masterful job to get us where we are so far. This is not the final destination. He’s been in office only 1 year! I can’t even imagine where things would’ve been under McCain/Palin.
I’m glad that you now see hope and change. I forgot what it looked like after 8 years under Bush/Cheney.
First of all, either George is Florida Blogger’s alter ego, or his lawyer.
Second, let’s get something straight. The President’s popularity is tanking everywhere. Even within his own camp:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-zogby/obama-losing-support-amon_b_274013.html
Here’s better for you
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of newly laid-off workers filing initial claims for jobless benefits rose unexpectedly last week, evidence that layoffs are continuing and jobs remain scarce.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Firsttime-jobless-claims-rise-apf-106391038.html?x=0&.v=8
Ok lets just take a few of your “points” here shall we.
2. Employment Data:
Monthly Job Losses – Dec 2009: 85,000 BETTER!! **Could actually see an increase in January’s #’s
Monthly Job Losses – Feb 2009: 651,000
Just released TODAY that the job numbers for December have to be adjusted because there were MORE unemployed than originally reported. Making Decembers numbers worse than November. (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aNSc0oQ0vb4M&pos=10) The unemployment rate rose in 306 of 372 metro areas, the Labor Department said Tuesday. The rate fell in 41 and was unchanged in 25. That’s worse than November, when the rate fell in 170 areas, rose in only 154 and was unchanged in 48. (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100202/D9DK7V400.html) Sounds like a recovery to me! And why hasn’t jobs been the focus for the last year? It’s really compassionate to make people suffer longer just so you can pass healthcare.
Deficit – Whoops! SURPLUS Jan 2001: $236 BILLION
Deficit – Jan 2009: $1.3 trillion (inc. Bush TARP, etc.)
Being attacked on your home soil and subsequently having to fight two wars because of it will do that. And while we’re at it lets talk about Obams’s 1.6 trillion deficit in his new budget proposal. That makes it bigger than Bush’s (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_bi_ge/us_budget) and that’s not accounting for the deficit that was put into the stimulus. Even his own Democrats are trying to distance themselves from his spending habits. (http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/michael-jackson/sc-dc-obama-dems04-20100203,0,987524.story) Or how about the fact that by the end of February we will have reached the limit congress set for deficit spending. (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hEkfx_bpGC-zVoeKNR38gWLcjXdw) It’s estimated this will happen the day before they vote to raise the deficit limit to 14.3 trillion!! I can go on and on and on…..
Jan 2009: Country teetering on the edge of total economic collapse.
Feb 2010: Not so much..
Unenjoyment wasn’t supposed to go past 8% thanks to the One. We’re at 10% and holding. And predictions are that jobs won’t recover until well after Obama’s first term. There were bank closures in January, one every other day for the entire month. That’s not so much? Since the beginning of 09 there have been approximately 150 bank closures under Obama’s watch. (http://www.examiner.com/x-28163-St-Louis-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m1d24-140-bank-closures-in-2009-Nine-in-2010)
Number of acts of international terrorism on U.S. soil under Bush: 1 – 2,973 lives lost
Number of acts of international terrorism on U.S. soil under Obama: 0 – 0 lives lost
Thanks to the efforts that Bush started and Obama continues. Oh, but wait! Wasn’t there an attempt on Christmas? Didn’t a lone radicalized military man kill 13 fellow officers in Texas? You are wrong. 13 died on Obama’s watch IN THIS COUNTRY.
You wanted proof. There’s your proof. I’m not the one making these claims. So called respected news outlets are. I am just pointing to the folly of your statements with the facts. You can blow sunshine and rainbows out your posterior all day long but it doesn’t change the fact that the recovery is not happening the way it was supposed to. Even the President has acknowledged that. Twelve Democratic Senators spent last weekend in Miami Beach raising money from top lobbyists for oil, drug, banks, and other corporate interests that they often decry, according to a guest list for the event obtained by POLITICO. (http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0210/Dem_senators_spent_weekend_with_bank_energy_tobacco_lobbyists.html?showall)
But you don’t have to believe me. Just take five minutes reading the above links and educate yourself.
Sounds like hope and change to me…
Consti Tution:
Better? Yeah better. Open your eyes. Some facts for you since they seem to be in short supply in your world:
1. I didn’t forget anything! THE FACTS: The republicans had control of the Presidency, Senate, House of Representatives, and the Supreme Court from 2000-2006. The Senate was 49-49 from 2006-2008. So the House was the only branch of government controlled by the dems from 2006-2008 with a 31 seat majority. So using your logic you blame the party that was out of power during 6 of the 8 years in question and only had control of 1 of the houses of Congress for the last 2 years. The republicans still had all other branches of government and a virtual tie in the Senate for the final 2 years. That is some tortured logic there. Absolutely amazing!
2. Employment Data:
Monthly Job Losses – Dec 2009: 85,000 BETTER!! **Could actually see an increase in January’s #’s
Monthly Job Losses – Feb 2009: 651,000
Stock Market today: 10,279 BETTER!!
Stock Market 1/20/09: 7,949
Deficit – Whoops! SURPLUS Jan 2001: $236 BILLION
Deficit - Jan 2009: $1.3 trillion (inc. Bush TARP, etc.)
Jan 2009: Country teetering on the edge of total economic collapse.
Feb 2010: Not so much..
Number of undercover CIA Agents outed under Bush: 1
Number of undercover CIA Agents outed under Obama: 0
Number of acts of international terrorism on U.S. soil under Bush: 1 – 2,973 lives lost
Number of acts of international terrorism on U.S. soil under Obama: 0 – 0 lives lost
Under Bush: U.S. tortured as a policy for the first time in our history
Under Obama: Torture ended
I’m just getting started. I feel like Obama in front of the House republicans in Baltimore. LOL. You might have been just a little premature to congratulate yourself. Who is the mule now?
Matt,
Long worded response, and worth it. Well thought.
FB,
As to question #3, it should be 100% from both parties. Smell the coffee comrad.
Matt:
Are you a novelist? I think I lost a year of my life reading this one. Just joking.
1. I take your point about polls. Whether the numbers are exactly representative can be argued from both sides. But what I believe we both can agree on is that there is a alarmingly large portion of the population who actually believe these things even though there is absolutely no credible evidence whatsover on which to base these bizarre beliefs.
2. You are disputing the analysis? My basic analysis is that these absurd beliefs are poisoning the political climate and now make it difficult to get anything done. I have absolutely NO problem with people who honestly oppose President Obama on some of his policy positions (if those disagreements are grounded in facts). I repeat this all the time on You Tube. Hell, I regularly criticize President Obama myself. I think it would be a little difficult to argue that this ridiculous stuff is not a big part of the problem right now. As President Obama said, when congressmen and republican opinion leaders say he is (socialist/not born in the U.S./sympathizes with terrorists/wants to kill your grandmother – you pick) then they have prevented themselves from ever supporting him on anything. We just saw clear evidence of these with the debt commission flip-flop by co-sponsors of the bill.
3. I completely reject your point about “not sure” responses. Part of an obligation of every citizen is to keep themselves informed. There is no excuse for anybody in this country to believe that Obama sides with the terrorists for example. I am tolerant of opposing Obama’s policies, but I will not tolerate this nonsensical B.S. Its gone on long enough and it needs to stop now. Any honorable republican would harshly condemn this crap and the people who peddle it. Unfortunately, those honorable republicans are in short supply these days. “Not sure” is a cop out and goes directly towards hate or stunning ignorance. If these numbers were in the single digits I wouldn’t be too concerned. But I see these people around me every day. I live right in the heart of it and I call people out on it whenever I can. Just as I did a local mayor here when he claimed at a tea party that “President Obama, Pelosi, and Reid were more dangerous to the future of the U.S. than Osama Bin Laden!” He was called out by me on YouTube (I filmed him saying it) and I contacted him directly. Sorry, but I just couldn’t disagree with you more. I am disappointed that you defend these people.
4. Obviously, I reject your absurd contention that I am a hypocritical left-winger. You seem unable to list any specific facts to support that wild conclusion. The funny thing is that I’m actually pretty moderate on a lot of things. Shining a light on the FACT that a rather large group of Americans believe these claims and by doing so are poisoning the current political atmosphere is not in any way being hypocritical. You may want to check the definition of the word. If I was claiming that Mitch McConnell was an alien spore and will soon destroy mankind, then you might have a point. But in this case you don’t. I’m a stickler with the facts and of course I provide commentary with those facts. But my commentary is firmly rooted in those facts. As the saying goes, you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. I really don’t see any hypocrisy here.
5. I know you want to totally dismiss the poll out of hand, but I think that is unfair. Could the numbers be off slightly? Of course. The more important point is that there is a large segment of republicans that believe these things. If you want to take out the “not sure” responses it is still a VERY large number. If you include the “not sure” responses it is fact a majority who either believe or are not sure about things which absolutely absurd. Both sides have radicals, but we’ve never seen anything like this before. The kind of things in the poll are virtually 100% coming from one side. There is just no equivalence. If a democrat said some of these insane things I’d condemn them immediately. That is the difference.
“After one year the country is in one hell of a lot better shape than it was when you guys were voted out of power.”
Better?
Perhaps you are forgetting that the Democrats have held congress since 2006. more than one year. The LAST two years of Bush in fact. In the month of January there was a bank closure EVERY other day. By the end of February, one day before they vote to raise it, we will have hit the Deficit limit set by congress. (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hEkfx_bpGC-zVoeKNR38gWLcjXdw)
Unemployment estimates are being revised to add another 842,000 unemployed. And speaking of unenjoyment we are still at 10% even though we were told it wouldn’t go past 8% and for the past year the Dems in congress have done extremely little to solve the employment problem.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aNSc0oQ0vb4M&pos=10
I could go on, but I only lead the mule to water…
If this is better I would hate to see what your idea of GREAT is.
Consti Tution:
Let’s not get too excited about this poll stuff. He was in the 60’s and now he’s in the 50’s in most polls. Not exactly earth shattering. Considering what he got handed to him by your failed and disgraced administration when they shuffled out the door, I’m surprised his poll numbers are as high as they are. Again, I predicted this on YouTube back in Jan-Feb. Before you start laughing too hard permit me a moment to laugh at Bush’s poll numbers as he hopped on that helicopter for the last time or maybe permit me a moment as I chuckle at the current low poll numbers of the republicans in Congress. Ok thanks, Im done laughing. You can go ahead now.
Consti Tution:
I’m not arguing anything about “congressional approval.” Not sure where you came up with that idea. I believe I correctly stated that the Congressional republicans and George Bush when he left office are/were hugely more unpopular than President Obama. What spin? Stick with the facts; be specific. I cited a poll and accurately presented its source and the results of that poll. If those results are not troubling to you, then so be it. That’s something you need to examine within yourself.
I have been very clear that I expect losses in the midterm elections. So you must have me confused with someone else. But thoses losses are not due to any new love for the current republican party. The reasons are varied and complex. After one year the country is in one hell of a lot better shape than it was when you guys were voted out of power. There are many objective measures economic and otherwise which bear this out. There’s been more change than you think: No more torture, dramtically increased standing in the world, more success in taking out key terrorist targets and disrupting plots, significantly more drone missle attacks in Pakistan, competent Attorney General, competent FEMA director, no more outing of undercover CIA agents, putting the cost of the wars back into the budget, a President who admits when he’s wrong, elimination of the ban on stem cell research, a President willing to go into the lion’s den and field questions, winding down the Iraq occupation, closing GITMO, appoitment of Sonia Sotamayor, and not least of all – taking swift action to prevent a historic economic meltdown. I’d say that’s some change..
But I have a question for you. It is rhetorical but you will publicly answer it anyway and let this show continue What is the point of writing this article and exposing this truth (as you see it)? Does it benefit our country our community in anyway to simply try to tear down fellow citizens of this country? Go ahead yell hypocrite I know you want to, but although I may be criticial when it comes to facts I still recognize you and every other person with an alternate opinion as part of our society and someone I am willing to give an ear at least for a minute. This is not personal although you see it as a personal crusade and you will make it a goal to prove me wrong in every way possible. You have become blinded by your ideology just as the far radical right has. Because of this you like them will never see the truth, you will simply follow the radical party-line. And thus another 4 years of no real progress for our country. People like me aren’t happy with democrats that make promises that don’t deliver just like we don’t support repubs that don’t deliver. Bush made some good decisions (and that is my opinion) and some bad decisions. Was a he a great president… no, but overall I can’t complain too much. What we need now is real change and that means policy that works, policy based on historical evidence, real facts and better yet truth. I know you will find it difficult to accept that someone as politically “involved” as me would not have a vested personal interest in tearing the other party down at any cost but I don’t… All I want is to have the freedom to express my opinions, live my life without government intervention and one day try my hand at one of my many business ideas. I don’t want a hand out I want the opportunity to try to create success for myself. That opportunity is diminishing and it makes people like me sad for the future.
All I can do is hope, write, be involved, say what I can and keep moving forward. Life has handed me some curveballs but as low as I’ve been I’ve only been molded into a better person for it. But that is the fundamental difference between me and a lot of other people out there, and why I don’t have a lot of friends among my peers.
“Get your facts straight. Poll was conducted by Research 2000. It was a rather large sampling of self-identified republicans. It was scientific.”
…. and politics is a clean sport. I’m impressed, I never spent much time getting up on the latest with the daily kos. They actually have a scientific brand. Frank Luntz will be the first to say that simply changing one word in a question, modifying how outliers are determined, determining which responses to cite, sample location and distribution can all dramatically affect the outcome of a poll. There is a good book that applies here: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics. My knowledge of statistical analysis is not extensive, but it is enough for me to understand that most polls are not reflexive of the truth and that goes for both sides.
I do find it interesting that you say “Just because your right-wing talking point says the poll is not valid does not make it true. Nice try. Are you really disputing the polling results? Really? ” So because this poll fits your left-wing talking points you automatically assume it is the truth? Interesting. There is a good word for that, hypocrisy. I don’t give any polls much credit and any honest pollster will tell you why: Am I really disputing poll results, well no, just the analysis.
BTW “Not sure” does not simply mean “I have all the facts and I am unsure whether this statement is true.” There are many out there who aren’t wannabe pundit, political blogger hobbyists like us who don’t have all the facts or do not want to make a quick decision. Some people really aren’t sure as they haven’t formed an opinion. That greatly changes the analysis of those results and that was what Consti was getting at. And there is another important point. I am a conservative libertarian and for all the republicans I know, the only radical belief among this list they harbor is that Obama may be a socialist, and at this point that is an argument of the definition of the term and not the facts of his “Social” policy. That keyword social is often ignored.
I know all of this will fall of deaf ears and typically I do not involve myself in these matters as it is ultimately an utter waste of energy; but with a slashed throat and too much time on my hands, yet no will to write nor allowance to get out, I figured what the heck. Call me an unrealistic optimist today. I am one of those that actually want solutions not partisan politics and I think through the truth based on the truth. Facts are one thing but the truth is another. In your quest to prove how ridiculous the far out right is you have transformed yourself into a hypocritical left-winger. You are the very thing you fight against, simply on the other side of the aisle, and people like me don’t buy what your selling.
At this point the real question is what will your next response be? It could be a direct attack, insulting my credibility and citing my youth. I’m sure a stunning list of your past journalistic achievements will follow. I imagine the programmed response is to shoot out rasmussen reports, after all they are often seen as a Conservative leaning polling agency, and a great counter for me shouting liberal bias to your poll. But in this response you will have unknowingly admitted you did not take the time to understand a single point I am making. Both sides have bias, both sides have radicals. The truth is polls rarely indicate the truth, and polls support this Most repubs don’t hold these views, but instead of taking this reality from the horse’s mouth you choose to rely on polls which do not reflect reality. Statistics is sticky enough as it is, add a cup of politics and a sprinkle of bias and the final product is nowhere near the truth. Any honest pollster will tell you this, if you listen.
and another poll fact for you… Obama has had the FASTEST DROP IN APPROVAL in history… more that GW in his first year, more than Clinton, More than Bush I, More than ANY president in the history of polling. Don’t make me laugh…
Got news for you…. congressional approval was LOWER than Bush’s during his last term. That’s verifiable easily, but I don’t think you will acknowledge that. Partisans are partisans, and spin is spin. When the Democrats are defeated in November will you still blame Bush then? It’s been the One’s ball for over a year now and still there is no change… and very little hope. But plenty of blame of the last administration.
Consti Tution:
Ha Ha what? You need me to explain “Yes or Not Sure” for you? Either answer is equally ridiculous. They are “not sure” if President Obama wants the terrorists to win? Give me a friggin break.
Get your facts straight. Poll was conducted by Research 2000. It was a rather large sampling of self-identified republicans. It was scientific. Just because your right-wing talking point says the poll is not valid does not make it true. Nice try. Are you really disputing the polling results? Really? You haven’t heard Senators, Congressmen, Palin. Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh pushing this crap?
“The Daily Kos Republican Poll was conducted by Research 2000 from January 20 through January 31, 2010. A total of 2003 self identified Republicans were interviewed nationally by telephone. Those interviewed were selected by the random variation of the last four digits of telephone numbers, nationally. The margin for error, according to standards customarily used by statisticians, is no more than plus or minus 2% percentage points. This means that there is a 95 percent probability that the “true” figure would fall within that range if the entire self identified Republican population were sampled. The margin for error is higher for any demographic subgroup, such as for gender or region.”
Not sure what your comment has to do with the Research 2000 poll.
Obama Job Approval:
50% – CBS
50% – McClatchy-Ipsos
50% – Rasmussen (up significantly after Sate of the Union)
51% – Gallup
53% – ABC/Wash Post
I’m a little surprised you want to bring up poll numbers in light of the horrible numbers for the Congressional republicans and also coming off of Bush’s historically low poll numbers. You let me know when Obama dips into that territory you guys have staked out.
Cherry picked? It is the only poll I’ve seen that asks these questions. That’s your party now. Own it.
For the week ending Jan. 31, Obama’s average approval rating was 48% — the lowest weekly average of his presidency. While similar to the 49% average approval rating he received the previous week (Jan. 18-24), it is down from 51% during Jan. 4-10. The weekly averages are each based on combined interviews with more than 3,500 U.S. national adults and have a margin of error of ±2 percentage points.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/125462/Obama-Approval-Hits-50-After-Stretch-Sub-50-Ratings.aspx?CSTS=tagrss
That’s from both parties. A little more honest than your twist on the KOS poll which you cherry picked I see.
Since when did the daily kos do scientific polls. Anyone can do a poll, it doesn’t make it accurate or valid in any way. It is funny how much time some libs try to spend painting Fox as this hard-core conservative news outlet when the daily kos is one of the most radical left-wing organizations out-there and consistently generates biased and false “news” products.
HAHA!! “Yes or not sure”. And everyone knows the KOS is a George Soros funded organization. Try a less politically biased source for your information. Not sure… HA!
Thank you for printing this. Thoes results seemsin line with the vehemence shown by some people here…