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Obama's poll numbers dropping
Boston Globe ^ | November 3, 2009 | Foon Rhee

Posted on 11/03/2009 7:56:52 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

President Obama's overall approval rating is still at a healthy 54 percent, but a new poll suggests some weakness on major issues.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released this morning shows his approval rating down from 58 percent in the same poll in mid-September.

More worrisome for the White House, the poll numbers have flipped from majority approval to majority disapproval on the economy (54 percent disapproval now, 54 percent approval in September), health care policy (57 percent disapproval now, 51 percent approval then), and the war in Afghanistan (56 percent disapproval now, 49 percent approval in August.)

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; polls
Somewhere this poll is suggestiong people are saying "Like, OMG, I don't like his like opinion on that issue but I like him, like you know what I mean? Like."
1 posted on 11/03/2009 7:56:52 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement
“suggesting.” (typo)
2 posted on 11/03/2009 7:57:29 AM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama lies, Freedom dies)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The disconnect between the Cult of Personality and actual Reality. Hopefully these zombies will awaken to REALITY and change their vote in all the upcoming elections.


3 posted on 11/03/2009 8:01:37 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: ConservativeStatement

ROFL, and we actually give them the right to vote. They should have been drowned like kittens at birth, no their ignorant parents should have been to allow them so speak like that.


4 posted on 11/03/2009 8:03:44 AM PST by annieokie (i)
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To: ConservativeStatement
First of all, I do not trust CNN, nor do I watch it. Is this CNN poll accurate? I have a difficult time believing that 54% have a favorable opinion of Obama and his policies. How do we reconcile this with Rasmussen's numbers that show that less than 30% support him? Could 54% of the voters in America be that stupid?
5 posted on 11/03/2009 8:03:51 AM PST by Nosterrex
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To: ConservativeStatement
President Obama's overall approval rating is still at a healthy 54 percent....

Let's turn the table:

President Bush's overall approval rating is at a precarious 54 percent...

6 posted on 11/03/2009 8:05:15 AM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Soooo, America is saying he is a likeable fool.

That is hardly a decent criteria for a president.

Fact of the matter is he is a cunningly deceptive manipulator with a muslim/kenyan heritage who longs for how he was socialized for in Indonesia. His rudimentary framework is not American. Not founded in American values nor principle.


7 posted on 11/03/2009 8:06:36 AM PST by himno hero
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To: ConservativeStatement

Again?!!

Who knew?

Oh, that’s right, I read it in the “Main Stream News Media” It was all over the place.


8 posted on 11/03/2009 8:07:37 AM PST by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam.)
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To: himno hero

and he really doesn’t care what we think. Polls be damned.


9 posted on 11/03/2009 8:09:36 AM PST by Broker (Sharpen the knife.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“I was like, wow, it’s so cool to vote for the black dude”, you know what I’m saying? But, like now I’m like zonked out man, cause I’m still tryin’ to pay my own rent and stuff, like whazzup with that, dude? I ain’t got no job now but I need one cause Obama ain’t puttin’ no gas in my tank or nothin, I was like better off with Bush, OMG what did I just say?”


10 posted on 11/03/2009 8:11:48 AM PST by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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To: himno hero

Soooo, America is saying he is a likeable fool.

WELCOME BACK CARTER!


11 posted on 11/03/2009 8:12:08 AM PST by buffyt (I don't agree with Reid,Schumer,Pelosi,Snowe,Dodd,Rangel,Frank,Obama,does that make me RACIST?)
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These polls are all over the board...........I thought obama was under 50%? That’s where the real polling is, and should be. The libs are messing with the polls again, is all. No worries - in 2012, ACORN better be gone, and then obama’s chances of winning again will be at all-time lows.


12 posted on 11/03/2009 8:12:27 AM PST by NoRedTape
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To: ConservativeStatement

if CNN is reporting 54% then the real number is likely around 45-47


13 posted on 11/03/2009 8:13:11 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Broker

He be jammin man, the dismantling an destruction of the US of A to the muslim favor. His sole objective.

Cunning and deceitful. Had AMERICA known, they would not have supported this weazell.


14 posted on 11/03/2009 8:14:14 AM PST by himno hero
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To: originalbuckeye
Obama doesn't have to worry about zombies because they are looking for BRAINS!

15 posted on 11/03/2009 8:14:47 AM PST by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: ConservativeStatement

Everyone is still too PCized to admit they don’t like Obamao. It’s his policies making everyone miserable, but that numbness will wear out as things get worse. People will figure out that Obamao is the dunce behind his policies, and the guy who is hurting them. Some of these loopy losers will eventually figure out that Obamao is hurting them on purpose.


16 posted on 11/03/2009 8:14:56 AM PST by pallis
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To: Nosterrex
54% in a CNN or Gallup poll probably equates to 44% in real life. That's why I never believed Klintoon had a 60% approval rating while Lewinski/Kosovo/Chinagate was going on.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

17 posted on 11/03/2009 8:16:48 AM PST by wku man (Who says conservatives don't rock? Go to www.myspace.com/rockfromtheright)
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To: buffyt

Glad to see you have humor! I refuse to invest in the US... matter of fact... I am liquidating because of the risk he has invoked. He has also changed my perceptions of where the world is going.


18 posted on 11/03/2009 8:17:37 AM PST by himno hero
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To: ConservativeStatement

Let’s see......54% approval of Obama, but the majority disapprove of his handling of the economy, health care and the war. I’m still trying to figure this out. It’s like saying that other than the ownership, management, coaches and players, I approve of the team. Insane or bogus?


19 posted on 11/03/2009 8:18:39 AM PST by Right Brother
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To: ConservativeStatement

Same poll on CNN http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/03/obama.poll/index.html with this little gem at the bottome of the page.

—>The survey also suggests that by 24 points, Americans think that Joe Biden is a better vice president than Dick Cheney.<—


20 posted on 11/03/2009 8:19:40 AM PST by listenhillary (A "cult of personality" arises when a leader uses mass media creating idealized/heroic public image)
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To: himno hero

Jumpin and fetchin for the George Soros. Plantation politics; master, foreman and the rest of us.


21 posted on 11/03/2009 8:20:30 AM PST by Broker (Sharpen the knife.)
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To: RipSawyer

Recently, I heard a female college student say in a very public area “I am so supportive of Obama....” followed by “I am studying corporate law...” followed by “I’m going to stick it to those corporate white guys.” No lie! I would hazard to guess her nationality. This is what is being produced.


22 posted on 11/03/2009 8:25:26 AM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama lies, Freedom dies)
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To: wku man

Remember. This is CNN. The most busted name in news.

The MSM will try with all their might to show by massaging the internals that a majority still support BHO. But this will be harder and harder to pull off as time goes by.


23 posted on 11/03/2009 8:27:59 AM PST by princeofdarkness ("Obama Lied. Liberty, Morality, and Prosperity Died.")
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To: ConservativeStatement
Hopefully, the little communist is going to crash and burn like a meteor.


24 posted on 11/03/2009 8:50:53 AM PST by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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To: Nosterrex
How do we reconcile this with Rasmussen's numbers that show that less than 30% support him?

Rasmussen polls likely voters and has a fairly accurate percentage via Dems, INDs, and Repubs (I still think he's overcounting dems a little). CNN, on the other hand, per their article:

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted October 30 through November 1, with 1,018 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Their poll is all ADULTS, hardly an accurate measurein politics, as most adults don't vote. Their split was probably 39% dems, 23 % Repubs, and 29 IND. Usually outrageous and not at all accurate.

25 posted on 11/03/2009 8:50:54 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: GI Joe Fan

I like the analogy.

Zero’s bright fiery moment was his election and inauguration hoopla.

Now he’s becoming a burned-out cinder and the ground is approaching fast.


26 posted on 11/03/2009 9:16:06 AM PST by Zman516 (socialists & muslims -- satan's useful idiots.)
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To: Nosterrex
"First of all, I do not trust CNN, nor do I watch it. Is this CNN poll accurate? I have a difficult time believing that 54% have a favorable opinion of Obama and his policies. How do we reconcile this with Rasmussen's numbers that show that less than 30% support him? Could 54% of the voters in America be that stupid?"

Answers to your questions:

The 54% is a personal approval number. You know, "he hasn't a freakin CLUE what the hell he is doing but he's a good guy"

When you consider and understand that then all the other numbers make perfect sense. And yes, most assuredly yes, 54% of the people in this country can certainly be that stupid.

27 posted on 11/03/2009 9:23:38 AM PST by 101voodoo
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To: Nosterrex

rasmussen has 46% approval for obama.
(total of both strong support and mild support)

The polling difference is because Rasmussen uses “likely voters” while other polls just tally everyone


28 posted on 11/03/2009 9:35:06 AM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“This is what is being produced.”
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Idiots who think they are geniuses because they have a law degree when in reality they couldn’t cut it in a real world competition with an eighth grade dropout from 1950.


29 posted on 11/03/2009 1:27:42 PM PST by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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