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Title: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: Ptarmigan on October 10, 2013, 10:16:56 AM
Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023817510

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Cali_Democrat (17,449 posts)

Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!

Last edited Wed Oct 9, 2013, 06:55 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
 Right wing pollster Rasmussen now has Obama at 50% approval:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama's job performance.


The GOP's numbers are plunging:

Gallup: Republican Party Favorability Sinks to Record Low

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 the Republican Party is now viewed favorably by 28% of Americans, down from 38% in September. This is the lowest favorable rating measured for either party since Gallup began asking this question in 1992.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/165317/republican-party-favorability-sinks-record-low.aspx?ref=image


Please proceed, teabaggers.
Polls are unreliable by the way.

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gopiscrap (7,007 posts)
1. YES!! **** you GOP!!!

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calimary (31,683 posts)
11. Seconded. **** YOU, gop! Just **** YOU!!!

I'd say to the GOP: **** YOU IN THE HEART (if you had any)!

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BeyondGeography (22,462 posts)
27. And **** your Reagan doll, too

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flamingdem (26,318 posts)
4. woo hoo!

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nxylas (4,818 posts)
7. It's only one poll

RCP averages show a slight uptick in the Prez's approval ratings, but nothing major...yet. Hopefully the trend will continue (it usually takes a week or so for events to make a difference in the poll averages), but I think the celebrations are a little premature. And yes, I know RCP is a Republican-leaning site, but their polling data is usually sound (or "skewed", as the Tea Party cult would say).

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fascisthunter (28,792 posts)
16. religious fanatics will lose this battle as they always do
You DUmb libtards like religious fanatics. They are called Islamists.  :mental:
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: franksolich on October 10, 2013, 10:29:50 AM
I dunno what the primitives are yapping about.

Anybody know?
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: franksolich on October 10, 2013, 10:32:48 AM
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Obama Approval Down to 37% and Republicans Still Think They're Losing?

^^^from Drudge.
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: Ptarmigan on October 10, 2013, 10:36:18 AM
I dunno what the primitives are yapping about.

Anybody know?

Primitives are what they are. They are always projecting.
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: Karin on October 10, 2013, 10:43:37 AM
Frank, it's the Rasmussen daily tracking poll.  It's been stuck at 50% for awhile.  

There's something strange going on at Ras.  Scott left his own company about a month ago, leaving it to God knows who to run the daily management.  

King zero's number has been stuck at 50%.  They have asked NO questions about health care.  I wonder if they're even still making phone calls?  They're not publishing their methodology in full, either.  (e.g. what's the partisan weighting?)  

Anyway, Ras seems to be an outlier, as Gallup has Barky at 44% yesterday, 2 points down (and this is a 3-day rolling average).  They update at 1:00 pm.  Let's see what it says then.  

That PLUNGING comment of the DUmmies?  That's not on Ras's report.  They do say however, that 83% believe the country's going in the wrong direction.  
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: Chris_ on October 10, 2013, 10:45:59 AM
Rasmussem is the only one that has Obama's poll numbers at 50% or higher.  Disapproval numbers have been rising since Christmas last year (his approval numbers started slipping a few days before).

Real Clear Politics (http://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html)
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: JohnnyReb on October 10, 2013, 11:19:25 AM
I dunno what the primitives are yapping about.

Anybody know?
DUmmies are like a pack of barking dogs, only one knows why they're barking.
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: Dori on October 10, 2013, 11:22:57 AM
DUmmies are like a pack of barking dogs, only one knows why they're barking.

 :rofl:
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: BannedFromDU on October 10, 2013, 11:29:34 AM

     What is this, American Idol? Is there some reason why anyone should give a country f*** how popular 0dumbass is? ACA is the law of the land now. It's a WRECK. 2014 and 2016 will be where people express themselves. If we put decent candidates out there, we have a chance to take it all and repeal this terrible law. If not, we only have ourselves to blame.
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: Karin on October 10, 2013, 12:24:26 PM
Update:  Gallup down another point for obozo, to 43%.  3-day average for 10/7-9.

All the leadership's unfavorables are worse.  In other words, there aren't great flocks running into democrats' arms, DUmmies. 
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: GOBUCKS on October 10, 2013, 12:26:37 PM
Remember that a lot of the people who disapprove of the jug-eared muslim think he's too conservative.
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: BlueStateSaint on October 10, 2013, 12:26:57 PM
     What is this, American Idol? Is there some reason why anyone should give a country f*** how popular 0dumbass is? ACA is the law of the land now. It's a WRECK. 2014 and 2016 will be where people express themselves. If we put decent candidates out there, we have a chance to take it all and repeal this terrible law. If not, we only have ourselves to blame.

Agree totally.  I had heard that Australia had been having seesaw battles over universal health care, depending on which party was in power.  I miss LC at times like this . . . and a lot of other times.

Not only do I think that the groundswell to repeal and replace this will be damn near 60% of the populace, I think that, even with amnesty, the Dems will be the minority party for a long, long time.
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: jukin on October 10, 2013, 01:05:24 PM
Much like our chocolate ration, Obama's approval rating has climbed from 43 to 37.
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: AllosaursRus on October 10, 2013, 01:12:14 PM
Listinin' to Rush, and the latest AP poll has the chimp at 37%! No offense to chimpanzees, as I think they could do a better job.

Agree totally.  I had heard that Australia had been having seesaw battles over universal health care, depending on which party was in power.  I miss LC at times like this . . . and a lot of other times.

Not only do I think that the groundswell to repeal and replace this will be damn near 60% of the populace, I think that, even with amnesty, the Dems will be the minority party for a long, long time.

It's the only way we will save our Country!
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: delilahmused on October 10, 2013, 01:22:05 PM
When 83% of the population thinks the country is going in the wrong direction, that's not so good for the party in power. 0bama is the face of the government and represents the country's direction. Just look back at the stats when Carter was president.

Part of the reason the GOP's approval rating is in the tank is because they're no longer working for the people who they were sent there to represent. There are very few differences between the two parties and all of them have become elitists who merely pretend to disagree.

What you guys don't seem to understand is the tone of this situation has changed. The dems, from the president on down, are so busy apologizing for their over-the-top rhetoric, they don't have time to cry racism. The "optics" of the shut down suck for you and 0bama's has had to restore several things he previously closed. His clownish attempts to close the freaking ocean, privately owned historical sites and roads so people can't even view some of thes places from afar, have shown him to be nothing more than an immature partisan hack who throws a tantrum when he doesn't get his way...just like you.

Closing the WWII Memorial while opening up another section of the government to hold a immigration rally with illegal immigrants was probably one of the most asinine things he's done and shown him to be nothing but revengeful and petty, a person who looks for ways to punish people who disagree with him. His legacy, 0bamacare, that the majority of the people never wanted, is an unmitigated disaster. The one guy bragging about now having affordable health care turned out to be a fraud. Most people can't even get into the site. For those that do manage to get in, the unaffordability & high deductibles are causing anger, pain & angst.

Oh, the other thing you might want to keep in mind...when polls ask for what people think of congress, they're thinking of the whole body, not just the House. We're on offense, you idiots. But keep your fantasy, it will make things much more enjoyable for us when reality smacks you in the face.

Cindie
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: Ptarmigan on October 10, 2013, 01:29:50 PM
     What is this, American Idol? Is there some reason why anyone should give a country f*** how popular 0dumbass is? ACA is the law of the land now. It's a WRECK. 2014 and 2016 will be where people express themselves. If we put decent candidates out there, we have a chance to take it all and repeal this terrible law. If not, we only have ourselves to blame.

They think it is one giant "reality" show. Sad.
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: JohnnyReb on October 10, 2013, 02:26:44 PM
I hope Obama makes a not so graceful swan dive into the single digit range.
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: GOP Congress on October 10, 2013, 03:34:23 PM
I hope Obama makes a not so graceful swan dive into the single digit range.

Impossible. I'm actually surprised he's below 40%, but in any case about 1 in 3 Americans are non-movable with their love lust of Obama. So 37% is near-unanimous, also keeping in mind that the media is actually part of the DNC agenda. For him to be below 40% means there are major problems with the party, not just the president.

Similarly, the GOP has a 29% favorability (inverse from 71% unfavoraibility) rating, even amid the worst recession and worst-functioning government in my lifetime. To put this bluntly, a real, unbiased view would hold that the conservatives are cleaning the clocks out of both the RINO's and the democrats/socialists.

Because of this media bias, the GOP can have much lower popularity ratings. If Obama were a republican, he WOULD be near single digits. Of course, he would have been impeached and most probably indicted, convicted, and incarcerated on any number of felony charges long before now, but I digress.
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: miskie on October 10, 2013, 06:29:55 PM
They don't know how to read the Rassmussen tracking poll at all - or maybe they do, but chose to deny the segments they dislike.


From the same link referenced by the primitive.

(http://www.rasmussenreports.com/var/plain/storage/images/media/obama_index_graphics/october_2013/obama_approval_index_october_10_2013/966121-1-eng-US/obama_approval_index_october_10_2013.jpg)


looks about the same as it always does to me...
Title: Re: Obama's approval rating is climbing and the GOP's numbers are PLUNGING!!!
Post by: miskie on October 10, 2013, 06:33:55 PM
Now for the linked Gallup Poll ---

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Republicans More Likely to See Own Party Unfavorably

Self-identified Republicans are more than twice as likely to view their own party unfavorably (27%) as Democrats are to see their own party unfavorably (13%). The GOP's unfavorable rating among Republicans is up eight points from September, compared with a one-point rise in Democratic Party unfavorables among Democrats. These findings may be consistent with the widely circulated narrative that the Republican Party is internally splintered on how best to handle the budgetary negotiations.

Independents, meanwhile, remain unimpressed with both parties: Thirty-two percent view the Democratic Party favorably, while 27% view the Republican Party favorably.


Conservative voters are sick of RINOs. That's the reason, right there.