*Sigh* Once again, we have a bunch of Freepers on here who overreact to a single snapshot poll and are not seeing the forest for the trees. As a result, the doom-and-gloomers and hand-wringers are back out in force wailing and gnashing their teeth about how “unbeatable” Obama supposedly is. So allow me to once again try to put things in proper perspective...
1) The approval rating in this Gallup poll is 47%. That’s only 47 FRICKIN’ PERCENT, PEOPLE! Is it a way higher number than Obama deserves? Of course! But if you’re Obama, is a 47% job approval anything to jump up and down about just ten months going into next November’s election? I DON’T THINK SO! Think about it, would you be boiling over with excitement if your favorite conservative candidate was going into a re-election year polling at 47%? If not, then why are you so quick to think Obama has re-election in the bag??? The truth is, he’s been NOTHING BUT UNPOPULAR for almost the entire first three years of his presidency and this latest Gallup job approval number is still nothing to write home about! It’s only ONE poll consisting of ONE rolling three day sample, for crying out loud!
2) Jimmy Carter had a *56%* job approval in Gallup at this point in his presidency prior to his bid for re-election in 1980. That’s right... The disasterous JIMMY FREAKIN’ CARTER was at 56%!
3) According to the latest Real Clear Politics polling average, a paltry 25% of the American people think the U.S. is moving in the right direction (Rasmussen has the number at only 22%). Meanwhile, 70% think the country is moving in the WRONG direction. That’s HARDLY a vote of confidence for a sitting president!
4) THE ECONOMY STILL STINKS AND IS NOT IMPROVING. Do NOT fall for the media’s B.S. spin that things are getting better. Just ask the 14 million Americans who are still UNEMPLOYED... Or the additional 12 million folks who are UNDEREMPLOYED and involuntarily stuck working part-time jobs... Or how about the 46 MILLION Americans currently living on food stamps... And the still astronomically high gas prices, which are up 80% since Bush left office... Or the continued rise in home foreclosures... Or the $15 TRILLION in national debt, an increase of 43% since Bush left office... I could literally go on and on.
5) The November 2010 elections WERE NOT THAT LONG AGO! Does anyone recall what happened then? Does anyone really see any evidence whatsoever that the American public is chomping at the bit to go back and support Obama and the Dems in 2012? I don’t!!
6) Oh, and today’s Gallup survey was released about an hour ago... Obama’s job approval number has dropped down to 46% and his disapproval number has risen to 48% for a -2 index. There. That insurmountable surge in popularity didn’t last long, did it? And guess what? I can assure you Obama will make voters irate again now that he’s back from vacation and will start campaigning full steam ahead in favor of his Marxist agenda. Oh, and just today the SOB has requested another $1.2 TRILLION debt ceiling increase from Congress. Yeah, I’m sure that’ll really sit well with the American people and convince them to vote for Obama again in 2012. </sarc>
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. OBAMA WILL BE A ONE-TERM PRESIDENT. There are MANY things going in our favor, so can we at least make an effort to start cutting back a little on the needless defeatist thinking? Hey, if fear is what it takes to keep you people motivated to vote Obama out in 2012, then do what you have to do. But please, some of you really need to stop inadvertently trying to depress your fellow more optimistic conservatives here on Free Republic with negative posts that are rooted in nothing more than knee-jerk reactions that fall prey to all the White House and media B.S.
I don't care what the MSM is spewing about BO's "employment" numbers and apparently neither do my neighbors in my deep-blue neighborhood: these stats aren't enough to start peppering the naked bumper stickers on every car with BO '12 stickers. Too many storefronts remain empty. Too many people are slipping into uncertain housing situations. The public has more intelligence than that.
It is going to be a wonderful day when he and Holder are gone. One year to go.
Here is the info on the surging WP poll. Yes its fake:
Washington Post-ABC News Poll
This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone December 15-18 2011, among a random national sample of 1,005 adults, including landline and cell phone-only respondents. Results for the full sample have a 3.5 point error margin. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by Abt-SRBI of New York.
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president?
Approve: 49% Disapprove: 47%
Those numbers are now being used as evidence of Barack Obama’s once-again found approval among American voters just as 2012 and its accompanying election cycle begins in earnest. It is, according to numerous and subsequent media reports, the first time President Obama has had a higher approval vs disapproval rating since early last summer – and perhaps a trend that will propel him to re-election victory in November of 2012.
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But how to explain what is indeed a rather significant 5-point approval increase over polling data from just last month? Is it a reflection of Obama’s supposed “victory” over Republicans in the payroll tax reduction debate? Although many in the media are this very minute scrambling to posture just such an explanation – it is not likely. Why? Because this most recent Washington Post/ABC news poll, though just recently published, was actually taken BEFORE the final resolution to the payroll tax debate took place – December 15th – December 18th. The Obama “victory” over the Republicans did not happen for a number of days after the polling was actually conducted.
There is more to explain Barack Obama’s “Surge” in the polls though – and just as Insider warned, the cause is, while sadly predictable, no less insidious.
Here is the data regarding the political affiliation of those individuals who participated in the most recent Washington Post/ABC News poll:
Democrat 32%
Republican 25%
A seven-point advantage favoring Democrats – thus favoring support of President Barack Obama!
Now let us look back to the previous poll by Washington Post/ABC News published in November:
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president?
Approve: 44% Disapprove: 53%
And here then is the political affiliation of those individuals who participated in the Washington Post/ABC News poll from November:
Democrat 29%
Republican 26%
AND THERE YOU HAVE IT – IN THE MOST RECENT POLL NOW BEING SITED AS PROOF OF AN OBAMA APPROVAL “SURGE”, THERE WAS A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF DEMOCRATS AND A LOWER PERCENTAGE OF REPUBLICANS INVOLVED IN THAT POLL THAN THE ONE PUBLISHED LAST MONTH – A CLEAR CASE OF MANIPULATING THE OUTCOME. IN THIS CASE A 3-POINT SHIFT FROM THE PREVIOUS POLL THAT NOW OVERWHELMINGLY FAVORS DEMOCRAT PARTY AFFILIATION, REPRESENTING MORE THAN HALF OF THE 5-POINT OBAMA “SURGE” NOW BEING REPORTED BY VARIOUS MEDIA OUTLETS. AND SO GOES THE INCESTUOUS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE. AND JUST AS INSIDER WARNED – THERE WILL BE MUCH MORE OF THIS TO COME IN 2012.
KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOLKS
Obama is beatable, but not with this bunch of spares.
Many Americans, those who watch Diane Sawyer or Brian Williamns, truly believe in Obama and want him again. They also don’t want to admit that they are wrong.
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. OBAMA WILL BE A ONE-TERM PRESIDENT.”
And I’ve said many times that I think that barky will be re-elected. It has less to do about him and more to do with the ineptness of the gop, as well as the barely contained civil war that is currently going on within the gop.
Enough of the gop will ultimately coalesce around mittens to hand him the nomination, but it will ultimately be for naught when the predictable purge and/or disenfranchisement of the paleoconservative minority comes. The 3rd party challenge that results will cost the gop the election.
And barky won’t have to lift a finger to do it. He can just stand back and watch the gop implode.