President Obama’s popularity surges to three-year high (From Washington Post)

Washington Post ^ | 01/30/2013 | Scott Clement and Aaron Blake

[SeekAndFind]

President Obama is riding a wave of personal popularity into his second term, with his highest favorability ratings since his first year in office, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Fully 60 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of Obama in the new poll, up slightly from October but a clear shift in opinion from an election year in which his ratings hovered in the mid-to-low 50s. And by 39 percent to 26 percent, the president now has more “strongly” positive ratings than strongly negative reviews, breaking a two-year stretch in which intense opposition was on par with (or higher than) intense support.

Obama’s inaugural address earned fewer positive marks and appears to have served mainly as a pep rally, with raving reviews from supporters and plenty of yawns from his opponents. While the speech drew twice as many cheers as jeers — 51 percent approved while 24 percent disapproved — a quarter of Americans had no opinion on the speech. More than eight in 10 Democrats approved of Obama’s second inaugural, but at least three in 10 Republicans and independents have no reaction at all.

Whatever the reactions to the speech, Obama’s general likability has improved across a variety of constituencies, including a wavering base and the political middle. Obama’s favorable ratings have climbed by double digits since last year among liberals, racial minorities and people under age 40. Among each group, at least two-thirds now see Obama positively.

[skeeter]

Imagine that.

January 21, 2013 Obama Averages 49% Approval in First Term (Gallup)
by Jeffrey M. Jones

PRINCETON, NJ -- President Barack Obama averaged 49.1% job approval during his first term in office, among the lowest for post-World War II presidents. Only Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford had lower job approval averages.

[elephant]

Dont believe it!

[SeekAndFind]

Is there any big difference between popularity and approval ratings?

[garjog]

Low information has consequences.

I got so bothered by some college students wondering why everyone doesn’t like Obama that I made:

The Obama Clarifier web page.

Check it out! http://obamaclarifier.blogspot.com/

[ZX12R]

Dont believe it!

Popular with the Communist party, I'd believe.

[Fred911]

Washington Post = Bullshit

[cotton1706]

Except when his popularity is lower than Nixon’s

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/29/Obama-Job-Approval-Rating-Lower-Than-Nixon-s

[RightOnTheBorder]

His popularity only changes based on the ups and downs of his various deviant constituancy groups. Right now he is in full tilt tyrant mode so the racist black and hispanic groups, the gun grabbers, the sodomites, and the abortionists are all pretty happy with him. His lower popularity numbers of the past were due to the scumbags being angry at his inability to do evil more effectivly.

[max americana]

Funny...yesterday, Breitbart published an article that Odumbo’’s ratings were lower than Nixon’s..

Now who exactly are we going to believe here? The liberal, Klownie the Kenyan-ass-kissing, liberal, leftwing, imbecile ComPost or Breitbart?

[pabianice]

[WashingtonSource]

Me neither. The economy is shrinking. This is BS from the father of lies, Satan, and his minions at the Washington Post.

[Da Coyote]

Ain’t buyin’ it.

The bat-eared-b*stard’s lack of any ability other than looking like a dork is finally becoming apparent...even to the great unwashed proletariat dim-bulb-crat/cretin/felon crowd.

[wac3rd]

It is actually tied with GWB for lowest of all time.

The MSM is doing it’s fluff job now to sway the hipsters and morons who read their lies.

[LeoWindhorse]

I finally think I can honestly say :

HE IS NOT MY PRESIDENT

no turning back , America has been hijacked
It’s time for us to all realize that

[ScottinVA]

This is personal approval, not job approval...

[tomkat]

re headline:    

             

[kevkrom]

Must be a dead fly bounce.

(Alt version of joke: Must be a dead dog (with red wine reduction) bounce.)