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And yet...with all that bad press for months now, obama can do no better than basically a tie with the GOP candidates.
What will happen when the focus is on obama, his records, his words, his lies, his promises...24/7, 365?
No, Sanrene. He basically wins. He always has basically won except for some months in 2009. Your wishful thinking won't get you any farther than it did in 2008.
I notice for the last 2 weeks we keep on hearing the presidents polls numbers are tanking shows that he is weak and people want him out. Even more amusing is somehow people believe that the numbers were due to the furor over contraception, and even more off the wall because people made a stink over rush limbaugh. The best way to deal with poll numbers is not by one or two polls but by a general average of polls put out there RealClearPolitics - Election Other - President Obama Job Approval. You'll notice that some polls like cbs and pew don't release many polls, but others like fox and bloomburg do more often. Even more so are rasmussen along with gallup which put out a few polls a week.
You'll notice that cbs had him at 41 percent and gallup also had him at that at the day of the poll in question. Now there were the only 2 polls saying this mind you, and because of shared polling data its conceivable this was an outlier. You'll notice that now gallup has him at 46 *48 percent the other day* and that all other polls are consistent. Also take notice that this is the statistical average he has had for most of his time in office, i.e. between 46-48 percent. The lowest it has gone has been 42.3 and the highest is a bit above 52 percent. What should be worrying for the right wingers is the fact rasmussen has him doing so well since rasmussen always has had a history of skewing too far right in their polling data. Now of course this is for races, so it is possible they use a different pool for races vs preside natal polling. Anyway the point is that the presidents numbers are pretty much stable, and i imagine next month the cbs poll will be up again.
That depends on what poll you are depending on and when it is being taken. This also shows how vulerable polls can be and why we souldn't put to much into them until it gets closer to election time. A few points one way or the other, at this stage means little. I will add, overall his numbers really should be stronger.
What is the point of polls in any case? I just completely ignore them. I don't trust them at all and I really don't care what the results are anyway. I think they are for people with lemming like characters. They like to identify themselves with a particular group with a particular mind set.
They now seen to be taking polls on just about everything. What a colossal waste of time and money unless it's actually market research and it is done with the purpose of increasing sales.
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