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I heard this week that Obama has the lowest poll ratings since Roosevelt. Polls can do well to let you know the political leanings of the ones doing the poll and not much else. I don't even know why we have them. Maybe so stupid people will be told how to think so they can be in the majority in their thoughts?
I don't need to have a poll to tell me what shape this country is in and that is the important thing.
Significantly, the president is supported by INDEPENDENTS 60-36.
The only group where he showed a decline was among the (increasingly irrelevant) Republicans.
The poll offers evidence that Obama's strength in taming the GOP House on the "fiscal cliff", and his strong left-center advocacy on foreign policy, health care, taxes, gun safety, and immigration reform, are resonating with Americans.
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The man has been a great President. He is always on the superior side of every political issue and Republicans are imploding under the weight of President Obama's greater depth, character, effectiveness, class, superior ideas, and superior perspective.
Congratulations, Mr. President. Keep up the exceptionally good work.
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He's alluded to his fiscal policy with increase spending for border control happening "later" and cuts to government programs happening "later".
...and I'll either freak out or applaud when I see the plan, vs. speculate blindly that it either doesn't exist or that I KNOW I'm going to hate it no matter what. I know that he's talked about making cuts in spending, reducing the corporate tax rate, and doing some reinvestment in R&D in the past, but he can't do it without the republicans in the House and the Senate, who, if you will recall, vowed that their job was to defeat Obama vs. doing anything that could be construed as an accomplishment by his administration. They seem to be getting more serious about getting something done now, so I'm taking that as a positive sign. A bipartisan agreement that gives something to both sides would be a good thing.
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News like this must be really tough these days for all the RWNJ's still addicted to Obama-hating, sorta like junkies hungry for a fix. With the country improving and Obama's popularity steadily increasing, now they're slowly being marginalized back into oblivion... reduced to surviving on teensy morsels of ''paranoia'' and ''rage'' from Limbaugh, the Blaze, Stormfront, and posting the occasional wacko C-D thread (''Obama's crack cocaine/gay sex/murder orgy cover-up!'').
I heard this week that Obama has the lowest poll ratings since Roosevelt. Polls can do well to let you know the political leanings of the ones doing the poll and not much else. I don't even know why we have them. Maybe so stupid people will be told how to think so they can be in the majority in their thoughts?
I don't need to have a poll to tell me what shape this country is in and that is the important thing.
Where did you hear it, and who did the polling? Just like people, you have to look at the source and their track record before you believe a word they say. Some polls are just out there to pump for a candidate, because most of their clients are candidates from a certain party. Others use political polling to generate marketing business, and accuracy is everything. Some are neutral news organizations where accuracy counts as well. It all depends on the source and their track record. The Washington Post/ABC poll called it pretty close in the first week of November, so no one can discount them out of hand.
I live in a state with 3.7% unemployment now, and new businesses popping up everywhere. If you look at the national data, layoffs are way way down, which is a pretty strong signal that many companies are looking for things to improve elsewhere soon--it's hard to bring a workforce up to capacity quickly if there's a rapid increase in demand, so they're anticipating growth. If we can get business jump started, we have more tax revenues, and that will take care of a chunk of the debt. We need to cut spending--I absolutely agree--but that alone would only put a bandaid on the problem if we don't focus on growing businesses that create jobs here at home as well.
Significantly, the president is supported by INDEPENDENTS 60-36.
The only group where he showed a decline was among the (increasingly irrelevant) Republicans.
The poll offers evidence that Obama's strength in taming the GOP House on the "fiscal cliff", and his strong left-center advocacy on foreign policy, health care, taxes, gun safety, and immigration reform, are resonating with Americans.
Quote:
Originally Posted by A_Lexus
The man has been a great President. He is always on the superior side of every political issue and Republicans are imploding under the weight of President Obama's greater depth, character, effectiveness, class, superior ideas, and superior perspective.
Congratulations, Mr. President. Keep up the exceptionally good work.
I think he's going to have an awesome second term. He's hit the ground running this time and it's like the Republicans are being left in the dust, totally clueless as to how to stop him.
Meanwhile the GOP and the TeaParty are recording low approval ratings in low 30s.
and the senate (dirty harry reid) has historical low ratings in the teens
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I know that he's talked about making cuts in spending, reducing the corporate tax rate, and doing some reinvestment in R&D in the past, but he can't do it without the republicans in the House and the Senate, who, if you will recall, vowed that their job was to defeat Obama vs. doing anything that could be construed as an accomplishment by his administration. They seem to be getting more serious about getting something done now, so I'm taking that as a positive sign. A bipartisan agreement that gives something to both sides would be a good thing.
