Poll: Good economic news brightens Obama’s re-election prospects (....Comedians everywhere)

Yahoo News ^ | 02/15/2012 | Oliver Knox

[AngelesCrestHighway]

President Barack Obama's job approval rating has hit the 50-percent mark--an important reelection barometer--and he would beat any of the major Republican contenders for the White House if the vote were held today, according to a new CBS/New York Times public opinion poll that illustrates the political benefits of a steady stream of positive economic news. In hypothetical match-ups, Obama bests Rick Santorum 49 percent to 41 percent, Mitt Romney 48 percent to 42 percent, Ron Paul 50 percent to 39 percent, and former House speaker Newt Gingrich 54 percent to 36 percent, according to the survey, which was conducted from Feb. 8 to Feb. 13. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

The clowns in the media who print this crap are going to be very depressed come November!

[Eldon Tyrell]

There will be a steady barrage of lies and misinformation from the press for the next 9 months.

The “Government media complex” is going to bombard us with this.

It doesn’t matter how insane or wrong - they aren’t going to get rational voters for Obama anyway. They only want to gather the nitwits and easily misled. Added to the blakc, far left, and governemnet workers - and they win.

They have no credibility with rational people - and thus - nothing to lose. They don’t get fired when caught in a lie - sometimes - promoted. there is no penalty. There is no journalism. There is only - the message.

[outofsalt]

Sadly, I fear the barrage of lies, polls included, will tilt the playing field enormously. Look at how the “not Mitt” folks on our side have vacillated from the leader “today” on to the leader of “tomorrow” and the next day. Many folks follow the latest version of events and prefer the “devil they know”

[skaterboy]

the sadist in me almost hopes to see newt get our nom.just to see how bad we would get blown out...15? 20?

[italianquaker]

mr obama best enjoy it now(no matter that the poll is weekend, adults, no breakdown blah blah blah) gas is going to be 4-5 dollars a gallon and no spin polls will help him then

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[Riflema]

Not so sure - bear in mind the other posts today telling of the 2M dead people still on the voter rolls. These bogus polls then look mighty prescient when the dead vote en masse for Barry in November.

The Government Media complex are not stupid.

[Bitsy]

I heard that on FOX this AM

[ronnie raygun]

bullsh##, cowsh## and horse sh##

[richardtavor]

They will do what the always do. Blame it on the Oil Industry’s greed, while totally spinning the truth.

[skeeter]

Its time we started taking a closer look at the state owned journalists who are propagandizing us. Looks like this guy has been a reliable tool for the left for quite awhile.

Oliver Knox - A graduate of John's Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies, Knox covered the impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton for AFP beginning in 1998. He covered Al Gore's presidential campaign for the news service, moved to the White House beat in December 2000 and served in that position until the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009. (He was in the second row at the infamous 2008 Baghdad press conference when an an Iraqi TV journalist hurled a pair of shoes at President George W. Bush.) Most recently, Knox has been AFP's Congress/politics correspondent.

[houeto]

Clowns in the media? The biggest clown is in the White House.

You heard what he said about the high price of fuel indicating a strengthening economic recovery, right?

[max americana]

Check out the Yahoo comments. It’s a lib site but the commenters are smart.

[tsomer]

Bam beats Santurom 49% to 41%
Romney 48% to 42%

This with a 3% margin of error at 95% confidence (I assume.)
In other words, if I understand correctly, odds are 95% that in the first case for example, it comes down to
52%>’bam>46% vs. 44%>Santorum>38%. Is this right?

I smell BS, but then I want to whenever I read these things — which seems to get reported every other week and every other poll seems to predict success for ‘bam; he ebbs and flows as if controlled by the phases of the moon.

Can somebody direct me to some more or less dispassionate layman’s discussion on polling history,method and accuracy? ( I’d be especially grateful if it confirms my own prejudices. )

I refuse to believe this country will vote for ‘bam again. I even think the Dims secretly want to get rid of him. I can’t bear to think otherwise.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

President Barack Obama's job approval rating has hit the 50-percent mark--an important reelection barometer--and he would beat any of the major Republican contenders for the White House if the vote were held today, according to a new CBS/New York Times public opinion poll that illustrates the political benefits of a steady stream of positive economic news.

And...

A recent report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office sees unemployment staying above 8 percent, and potentially creeping up to around 9 percent by Election Day.

Amazing. Unemployment was 4.5% in November 2006, and Americans allowed the MSM to convince them how bad everything was and vote out the Republicans in Congress. Now, with unemployment at 8-9%, Americans in these polls are saying they'll re-elect Obama based on how well things are going.

This would be funny if we weren't bankrupting our children and grand-children with this administration's policies.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Can somebody direct me to some more or less dispassionate layman’s discussion on polling history,method and accuracy?

Sorry, but the polls predicting Obama's win in 2008 were correct, and they may be close to the mark now. We have our work cut out for us, so we'd better think long and hard about who we throw our support behind.

On a brighter note, no one expected an "idiot" like Reagan to beat Carter in 1980, either.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

according to a new CBS/New York Times public opinion poll?..

LMAO....Take that stupid pole out into America and see what you get....Obama gets buried!

[italianquaker]

That dog wont hunt this time, keystone hurts the dummy big time

[JimRed]

And we should believe a CBS/New York Times poll because...?

[From The Deer Stand]

CBS = complete bull s##t

New York Times = dead tree rag