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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #475 on: December 23, 2009, 09:59:07 AM »


Go Figure!!

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #476 on: December 23, 2009, 05:35:31 PM »


Go Figure!!

Never look at any polling day to day, it will make you go mad. Statistical noise will cause bounces both up and down - what is important is the trend over a period of time - which hasn't changed.. Obama continues to fall at a rate much faster than I anticipated.

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #477 on: December 23, 2009, 05:51:52 PM »
Never look at any polling day to day, it will make you go mad. Statistical noise will cause bounces both up and down - what is important is the trend over a period of time - which hasn't changed.. Obama continues to fall at a rate much faster than I anticipated.


Yeah, I know the long term trends are what's important, but I just want each days number to be lower than the last.

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #478 on: December 28, 2009, 10:51:05 AM »

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #479 on: December 28, 2009, 11:07:55 AM »
Two ways to look at that.  Yes, the -12 is a declining trend, but look at the "Strongly Approve"...overall it's a slow decline, not subject to as much variation as the Strong Disapprove number, which can be more subject to the news cycle.

Look at the number to REALLY collapse when the House takes up the healthcare reconciliation and more and more gets out about this terrorist fiasco.
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #480 on: December 28, 2009, 11:10:53 AM »
Typically the Nation rallies around the president after a terrorist attack.

Even one as silent as Lord Zero has been. He's too busy partying in Hawaii to take much notice as to what's going on. Either that, or he's doing his best to cover shit up.
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #481 on: December 28, 2009, 11:12:18 AM »
Typically the Nation rallies around the president after a terrorist attack.

Even one as silent as Lord Zero has been. He's too busy partying in Hawaii to take much notice as to what's going on. Either that, or he's doing his best to cover shit up.

You might have a point.  He hasn't been on TV in several days. That could be driving the numbers.

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #482 on: December 28, 2009, 11:17:55 AM »
You might have a point.  He hasn't been on TV in several days. That could be driving the numbers.

And the less HE comments about it and leaves it to his hacks, the more insulated he is, or at least the MSM won't question him on it.
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #483 on: December 28, 2009, 07:47:52 PM »
I think he is finding success in silence.  Bill Clinton's really big bounce during the primaries in 92 was during the two weeks he had laryngitis. 
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #484 on: December 29, 2009, 11:04:57 AM »
-15 today.

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #485 on: December 30, 2009, 08:34:11 AM »
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #486 on: December 30, 2009, 06:12:49 PM »
OK, from what I see here his disapproves went down a lot recently.  His approves went up a little, came down a little  but the down is a little below the trend, and the up didn't make it up to the previous up.    So I think we can still safely assume his trending downward.  How many of you think he will get below -20 by Jan 6th?   If he gets below -20, do you think it will be permanent after February?
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #487 on: December 30, 2009, 09:12:27 PM »
I think -20 will be about where he levels off, leaving his base of about 25% as his only source of strong approval.

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #488 on: December 31, 2009, 10:16:55 AM »


Are we able to say there is a pattern yet?

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #489 on: December 31, 2009, 10:21:25 AM »


Are we able to say there is a pattern yet?

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Ummm, Øbama could suck a golf ball through 100'-0" of garden hose?  Consistently?
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #490 on: December 31, 2009, 10:24:26 AM »
Hmm Obama stays off tv for a couple of days and his numbers go up, he returns to public view and back down they go.



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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #491 on: December 31, 2009, 11:54:40 AM »
Hmm Obama stays off tv for a couple of days and his numbers go up, he returns to public view and back down they go.


Maybe people are starting to find out about the costs of 10 days in Hawaii on a palatial estate.  :uhsure:

I don't think most people would begrudge him time off during the holidays....but I think his choice of "holiday getaway" is difficult to handle when many, if not most, people...down-scaled their holiday plans this year. 

Runnin' Buddy and I went for drinks the other night with a GM of a restaurant on The Strip (campus) that we have known for years. He said they had 4 huge company banquets that had scheduled for the whole downstairs restaurant (there's a more casual one on street level) during December and the 3 largest ones cancelled and the one that was held downscaled from a dinner to hors d'ouvres.

Companies, friends, families....just about everyone I know scaled way back this year. On gifts, entertainment, trips...everything.

Obama has been preaching...in the case of some companies - demanding... cutting back to everyone ....but if anything...he has become even more extravagant in his own lifestyle - surpassing most presidents of recent times.

And it's the American public that is paying for it!!

Another 5 days in Paradise may translate into another 5-10 points of disapproval....
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #492 on: December 31, 2009, 12:15:37 PM »
Obama has already played more golf in under one year than Bush did in eight. Seems to me he has had more days "off" than "on" so far. Anyone kept track?

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #493 on: December 31, 2009, 12:30:18 PM »
Obama has already played more golf in under one year than Bush did in eight. Seems to me he has had more days "off" than "on" so far. Anyone kept track?

Hmmm well, how many remember THIS;

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Obama Makes Surprise Trip to Read to Children  Updated   3:44 p.m.

By Michael D. Shear and Hamil Harris

As a sense of crisis engulfed his White House Tuesday with the withdrawal of former senator Tom Daschle as HHS Secretary-nominee, President Obama made an unannounced trip to a school to read to kids.

His motorcade was seen heading north on 15th Street, and local sources soon reported he was at The Capital City Public Charter School. There was no mention of a trip on the schedule sent out to reporters the previous day.

At the school, the president and Michelle Obama read to a group of second-graders in the school library from a picture book entitled "The Moon over Star," an account of the first moon landing in July of 1969. An Associated Press report from the scene said that Obama told the students, "We were just tired of being in the White House."

Hmmmm WHEN did all this pressure start to build that would cause the president and the first lady to FLEE the White House?

FEBRUARY 3rd 2009!

15 Frickin' days into his administration!!

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/02/03/obama_makes_surprise_trip_to_r.html

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #494 on: December 31, 2009, 12:34:19 PM »
Hmmm well, how many remember THIS;

Hmmmm WHEN did all this pressure start to build that would cause the president and the first lady to FLEE the White House?

FEBRUARY 3rd 2009!

15 Frickin' days into his administration!!

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/02/03/obama_makes_surprise_trip_to_r.html

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #495 on: December 31, 2009, 12:35:42 PM »
Hmmm well, how many remember THIS;

Hmmmm WHEN did all this pressure start to build that would cause the president and the first lady to FLEE the White House?

FEBRUARY 3rd 2009!

15 Frickin' days into his administration!!

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/02/03/obama_makes_surprise_trip_to_r.html

KC

Maybe that suggests that the pressure he's facing is the pressure of a flaming incompetent assigned to a post for which he is patently unqualified, and the deadlines for tangible producibles have started coming due.
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #496 on: December 31, 2009, 12:46:09 PM »

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #498 on: December 31, 2009, 02:11:07 PM »
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #499 on: December 31, 2009, 02:12:32 PM »
Pulitzer material.  :naughty:

Too bad it'll be redacted by the Ministry of Troof & Shit as seditious material.
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