Posted on 11/02/2009 6:32:52 AM PST by Maceman
Monday, November 02, 2009
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13 (see trends).
Following release of the House health care plan by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 42% of voters now support the Congressional effort while 54% are opposed.
In October, 37.8% of American adults considered themselves to be Democrats while 31.9% are Republicans. The number of Democrats has been inching up steadily since July.
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates are also available on Twitter and Facebook.
Overall, 46% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) disapprove. It’s sometimes easy to get caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations of the tracking poll and miss the longer-term trend. Rasmussen Reports also compiles the data on a month-by-month basis which shows that the President’s ratings slipped a bit in October after stabilizing in September.
Check out our review of last week’s key polls to see “What They Told Us.” Election Day is Tuesday and Republicans are likely to win back the Governor’s mansion in Virginia. The race in New Jersey is too close to call.
“If Republicans start nominating conservatives, 2010 won’t be close...we’ll take 50 seats. The public is getting tired of TOTUS and its policies. “
I heard this yesterday on Chris Wallace, and tend to agree. The people who elected Obama don’t participate in politics regularly. So, you’re right, if conservatives are nominated, 2010 could be a very good year. But not because people are tired of Obama, because the ones who support him most, just don’t pay attention.
In 2012 those vermin will resurface and vote Obama.
Wow!!!
The Raz poll is an outlier. No other single national poll comes close to his results.
Coming soon. October unemployment numbers come out on Friday.....
>> lack of presidential work ethic
All things considered, that’s probably a blessing for US.
You should have seen him stumping for Corzine in NJ yesterday. He was just pathetic. He was angry, he was still blaming Bush. A very poor showing. He looked like a desperate beaten man trying to save a desperate beaten governor.
OBAMA APPROVAL SOARS 15%!!!!!!!
“The Raz poll is an outlier. No other single national poll comes close to his results.”
If they used the same standard “likely voters”, a lot of them would the exactly the same as Rasmussen. The rule of thumb is to subtract 2-3 points from Democrats for “registered voters” and about 5 points for “adults” or “Americans.” Those 53% approval numbers become 48%.
The college kids who got sucked in by the Oboma girl are the ones who are really going to get screwed by this guy. They're getting stuck with the bills, and they haven't even started working yet. Image how sheepish they must be feeling right now.
All the Oboma bumper stickers are GONE! No one will admit they voted for him. It would be nice if they came out to correct their error.
He got 26% a few days back, but yes this is pretty low. The overall trend is down.
I don't expect to see his "strong approvals" to get much further down, since we're approaching his percentage of core supporters. It is nice to see his overall approval being -6, which is close to the lowest (-7 on 8/31).
One phenomenon that will be seen increasingly is that strong disapprovers will be more likely to voice criticism in public with reduced probability of strong approvers screaming at them for disrespecting The One. This will further erode Obama's image among those with no strong opinion.
Has he ever had a work ethic??? His background doesn’t show any.
Raz is not an outliner, the other polls are weighted qith too many democrats.
I'm looking for the media to begin to abandon Obamalamadingdong shortly. There have already been a few stray off the reservation recently. If Hoffman wins in NY23, Christie wins in NJ, and McDonnell wins in VA it's going to cause an earthquake in the media. If that happens watch for the rats to leave the sinking ship.....or, as my old business partner says "when it gets down to you or me, you gotta go!".....
Ahhhh, sweeeet mercy. Let tomorrow be even better of a day.
Back to 27% strongly approve. He got down to 26% last week...maybe he can go even lower.
It’s all wee-wee’d up.
Raz polls likely voters instead of registered voters. His record for accuracy is at or near the top.
Fifty-four percent now oppose Oboma Death Care, too.
I pray it will.
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