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Daily Presidential Approval Index
« on: February 07, 2009, 03:35:18 AM »


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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Approval Index for Friday shows that 38% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing as President. That’s the fourth straight day below the 40% level for the President. Prior to that, the number who Strongly Approved had never fallen below 40% for even a single day while Obama was President-elect or President  ...

Have the wheels come off already?



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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2009, 06:09:47 AM »
Have the wheels come off already?
And yet, with so many to still throw under the bus.
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2009, 06:27:47 AM »
That graph will cross before long. Yes, Americans are waking up, but they overslept.

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2009, 07:50:19 AM »


Have the wheels come off already?

No, but the lugnuts are loose.

Even if a few pop off, though, given his support among liberals and blacks, as someone posted a few days ago at CC, his approval ratings likely won't drop below 30 percent or so.

After all, for them not to support him would be racist, wouldn't it?
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2009, 08:08:46 AM »
And yet, with so many to still throw under the bus.
Perhaps he should get a bus on stilts, just in case.



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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2009, 08:23:23 AM »
Oh yay! Give the stimulus bill time to work on the ignorant masses, Obama will be in a free fall.
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2009, 02:58:40 PM »
Thanks for the link Bijou!
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2009, 11:16:21 AM »

After all, for them not to support him would be racist, wouldn't it?

Then call me racist, because I do not, have not, and will not support him....

and it has NOTHING to do with his tan....
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2009, 11:54:46 AM »
Then call me racist, because I do not, have not, and will not support him....

and it has NOTHING to do with his tan....

Same here; he is a die in the wool socialist who will f. this country up big time. 

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2009, 01:42:41 PM »
Dropped from +17 the day of the OP down to +11 today.
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2009, 01:46:36 PM »
Dropped from +17 the day of the OP down to +11 today.
Amazing, perhaps 'porkulus/porkzilla' has more resonance than we feared.



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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2009, 01:54:23 PM »
Amazing, perhaps 'porkulus/porkzilla' has more resonance than we feared.
That coupled with his glaringly inept handling of the entire episode. First he ceded authorship of the bill to Pelousy who not only eats stuffed pork for breakfast but made overt efforts to exclude the GOP from Obama's "post-partisan era of politics."

Obama himself only made feeble and empty gestures to bring the GOP on board with everything from declaring "I won" to mocking their economic theories and concerns about over-spending.

As to the senate side he is once again the absent father to his baby. If he's a leader nobody can tell because he hasn't done anything of substance...like submit his own version of the bill. All he seems capable of is letting dems write the bill, seeing the GOP isolated then bemoaning the lack of their votes for something they are not invited to write and unneeded to pass.

Nobody likes someone who holds all the power making themself powerless because they beg the indulgence of the powerless. If Obama's bad-mouthing of the GOP during the campaign meant anything why are they suddenly so important when he has all the legislative and executive power on his side?

Americans tolerate many things but "pathetic" is not one of them.
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2009, 03:54:55 PM »
That coupled with his glaringly inept handling of the entire episode. First he ceded authorship of the bill to Pelousy who not only eats stuffed pork for breakfast but made overt efforts to exclude the GOP from Obama's "post-partisan era of politics."

Obama himself only made feeble and empty gestures to bring the GOP on board with everything from declaring "I won" to mocking their economic theories and concerns about over-spending.

As to the senate side he is once again the absent father to his baby. If he's a leader nobody can tell because he hasn't done anything of substance...like submit his own version of the bill. All he seems capable of is letting dems write the bill, seeing the GOP isolated then bemoaning the lack of their votes for something they are not invited to write and unneeded to pass.

Nobody likes someone who holds all the power making themself powerless because they beg the indulgence of the powerless. If Obama's bad-mouthing of the GOP during the campaign meant anything why are they suddenly so important when he has all the legislative and executive power on his side?

Americans tolerate many things but "pathetic" is not one of them.

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2009, 03:58:20 PM »
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2009, 04:01:41 PM »
What do you mean, he's done nothing. Why, I've seen him "Mug" and "profile" for the camera OVER AND OVER AND OVER while proclaiming the sky will fall if we collectively don't kiss his rump and pass the Porkus Gigantus bill before the congress! NOTHING, WHY I NEVER!!! :banghead: :thatsright: :tongue:

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2009, 08:07:42 AM »
Add 2 more data points to the graph:

2/7  SA  37 SD 23, Index 14
2/8  SA  36  SD 25  Index 11

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2009, 10:16:52 AM »
we    are    governed    by  IDIOTS!!!!!!!!

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2009, 02:28:10 PM »
we    are    governed    by  IDIOTS!!!!!!!!

Speak for yourself, Peter.  I, for one, refuse to answer bells for the asshats in Washington.
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2009, 03:29:46 PM »
Maybe, but those IDIOTS still are elected and hold the reigns of power, and you need to remember that next time the nominating petition time rolls around.

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2009, 04:08:05 PM »
Maybe, but those IDIOTS still are elected and hold the reigns of power, and you need to remember that next time the nominating petition time rolls around.

Peter, I'm an elected Precinct comitteeman.  I busted my balls prior to the caucus, during the caucus, and after the caucus and we still got saddled with Senator Blueballs as the Party's nominee.  I've STILL got teeth marks in my tongue from holding to Ronaldus Magnus' commandment, "Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican", and I'm still lightheaded from holding my breath long enough to pull the Godforsaken lever for that senior Asshat from Arizona.

I did everything in my power to prevent this horrendous travesty from being foisted upon the country my family has called home since before it was a country, and I was still "represented" by a limp-dick pathetic excuse for a political figure, and I still got Barry "Da Fuhrer" 0baaaama thinking he's in charge up there in the center seat.

All of this is because we've got a majority of Americans so woefully uneducated as to who is actually in charge in the United States.  We've got most of 300 million people bending and scraping to the 550 or so "elected leadership" office holders like they were noble Lordships and Ladyships or something, and of course the 550 Asshats in the elected leadership offices are doing nothing to discourage the misunderstanding.

Well, in the immortal words of my 4-year old son, "They're not the boss of me!"  And if I have to completely off the grid, and entirely weapons free to prove it, I will.
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #20 on: February 09, 2009, 04:51:07 PM »
Went thru essentially the same thing imediately post Carter! I thought (stupidly) that successfully puting a good, conservative Republican in as Congressman for three terms was enough to help the cause. And what happened? They threw it all away over last 12 years. Here it is district Committeeman, yes, many of us have BTDT, so I saklute you and retract my comments about the matter, we've both suffered more than enough! :cheersmate:

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #21 on: February 21, 2009, 02:04:07 PM »
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Saturday, February 21, 2009 Email to a FriendAdvertisement
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 38% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Twenty-eight percent (28%) Strongly Disapprove to give Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +10 (see trends).

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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #22 on: February 21, 2009, 02:45:06 PM »
Peter, I'm an elected Precinct comitteeman.  I busted my balls prior to the caucus, during the caucus, and after the caucus and we still got saddled with Senator Blueballs as the Party's nominee.  I've STILL got teeth marks in my tongue from holding to Ronaldus Magnus' commandment, "Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican", and I'm still lightheaded from holding my breath long enough to pull the Godforsaken lever for that senior Asshat from Arizona.

I did everything in my power to prevent this horrendous travesty from being foisted upon the country my family has called home since before it was a country, and I was still "represented" by a limp-dick pathetic excuse for a political figure, and I still got Barry "Da Fuhrer" 0baaaama thinking he's in charge up there in the center seat.

All of this is because we've got a majority of Americans so woefully uneducated as to who is actually in charge in the United States.  We've got most of 300 million people bending and scraping to the 550 or so "elected leadership" office holders like they were noble Lordships and Ladyships or something, and of course the 550 Asshats in the elected leadership offices are doing nothing to discourage the misunderstanding.

Well, in the immortal words of my 4-year old son, "They're not the boss of me!"  And if I have to completely off the grid, and entirely weapons free to prove it, I will.

Our past year's electoral politics resemble the world of C. M. Kornbluth's classic SF novella The Marching Morons more than they have at any time in the past, it is increasingly hard to see how we can avoid that sad fate.
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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #23 on: March 01, 2009, 12:44:10 PM »
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 38% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty percent (30%) Strongly Disapprove to give Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +8
still dropping
 



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Re: Daily Presidential Approval Index
« Reply #24 on: March 01, 2009, 01:08:49 PM »
I cannot help wonder what it is EXACTLY that the lemmings "approve of" with this President? Now, no generalaties, but SPECIFICALLY they think is so swell? I object to damned near EVERYTHING he has "done" so far.