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CNN Poll: Obama's numbers not great but holding steady at 42% approval
CNN ^ | July 23, 2014 | Paul Steinhauser

Posted on 07/23/2014 4:31:40 AM PDT by Innovative

According to the poll, which was released Wednesday, the President's approval rating among Americans stands at 42%. That's not great, but it's basically unchanged since March.

Only 42% believe that Obama can manage the government effectively. Again, nothing to celebrate, but it's virtually unchanged from the 43% who felt that way in March.

The poll was conducted for CNN by ORC International from July 18-20, with 1,012 adult Americans questioned by telephone.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 42percent; approval; bhojobapproval; bhopolls; obama; polls
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly

42% seems about right.

Blacks comprise 13% of the population and most will support him no matter what. He starts with an automatic 12% of the population supporting him.

Hispanics are 17% of the population and 75% will support him automatically. That gives him another 12%. We are up to 24%.

Asians comprise 5.3% of the population. At least 50% will automatically support a Democrat. This gives us another 2.5% for a total of 26.5%

62.6% of Americans are non-Hispanic whites. Certain groups of whites are liberal and will automatically support a left wing Democrat. These groups include union members, teachers and other academics, government employees, young white females, secular Jews, atheists, urban white professionals. These groups easily comprise 25% of the white population for another 15.5% of the total US population. This explains the 42% approval rating.


21 posted on 07/23/2014 5:02:47 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: From The Deer Stand

I would be happy to do a “poll” myself if someone wishes to pay for it. My guess there would be FAR FEWER in favor of odumbo that 42%. Just exactly where did CNN take their poll, in Washing DC, Detroit, Atlanta, Philly..??????


22 posted on 07/23/2014 5:04:16 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: From The Deer Stand

I believe the majority of Americans (many of whom vote) are ignorant. If you have watched Watters’ World, you will see. Not just young people, either. With all the information available to us at our fingertips, so many just still have no clue what is happening in the country, much less the world.

I have “friends” on FB from different countries and most of them know way more about what is going on than Americans. And I can’t tell you how many young people on social media sites say that they hate to read. How did we raise a generation that has no interest in what is going on around them?

I really don’t see much hope for the future of America.


23 posted on 07/23/2014 5:08:42 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Soul of the South

we need to get all of our purple state governors to set new rules where their blue districts report first.does anyone really believe the tallies coming from blue/purple districts who wait for all of the red districts to report first?Yah,if the Red Candidate is ahead by a few thousand votes and there are at least 4/5 blue districts who will call the votes in last,and they see that there are not enough votes for the Rat to win,do you think they will just “Make Up The Final Tally”?


24 posted on 07/23/2014 5:11:27 AM PDT by Cruz_West_Paul2016
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To: Innovative

Barry and his 42% are the people that Alexis de Toqueville warned us about.


25 posted on 07/23/2014 5:14:41 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp! It is my home!!!)
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To: Innovative

Always wondered who they call and where those people called live.

Was they all in the socialist north east or down in the south.


26 posted on 07/23/2014 5:15:12 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Innovative

Yeah, I treat these Obama-is-still-popular polls the same way I believe his job numbers.


27 posted on 07/23/2014 5:21:51 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Innovative

What a country it would be if just half of those would leave for say, Cuba.


28 posted on 07/23/2014 5:22:46 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Refuse to remain silent.)
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To: Soul of the South

Totally agreed. 42% sucks though, you can’t win any election with 42% and other politicians will run away from you. It’s like saying my grandfather is “holding steady at dead”.


29 posted on 07/23/2014 5:23:54 AM PDT by Williams
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To: Innovative
CNN Poll: Obama's numbers not great but holding steady at 42% approval

CNN (Communist News Network) has been in the tank for obozo since the beginning and is thus a totally unreliable source of information. AND like with everything else, THEY COOKED THE BOOKS. Obozo's true rate is probably somewhere in the low 30's.

30 posted on 07/23/2014 5:25:23 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Izzy Dunne

Ugh! Bring on the bamboo shoots!


31 posted on 07/23/2014 5:29:15 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: JudyinCanada

All the TV and radio “news” outlets, including FOX, always provide a visual and sound platform for the Obama’s personal pronouncements. In addition, they always, always provide the Obama Administration positions in their news WITHOUT THE OPPPOSITION’S CRITICISM.
It is no wonder the general population of this country have not given the ObamaHole a 20% approval rating. The propaganda by the “news” media for the president of the United States is worse now than it was in World War II.
Thank god for the Internet forums.


32 posted on 07/23/2014 5:30:39 AM PDT by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but culture that is embraced that degrades.)
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To: Innovative


33 posted on 07/23/2014 5:31:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Obama's Storm of Illegal immigrants, aka, new democRat voters and his 2016 FDR 3rd term attempt!)
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To: Innovative

This poll, and others like it, tells us that 42% of those poled are “LOW INFO VOTERS” (political troglodytes). These are hardcore, dyed-in-the-wool, leftist/liberal/progressive/democrats.


34 posted on 07/23/2014 5:33:34 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: Innovative
"Forty-two's good, hon. It's not too shabby - a forty-two..."

The press as comforting mother after another Little League shellacking.

35 posted on 07/23/2014 5:36:10 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Innovative
The poll was conducted for CNN by ORC International from July 18-20, with 1,012 adult Americans questioned by telephone.

Who ye votin' fer? Well, Do ye like Obama, the Dark Lord?

36 posted on 07/23/2014 5:37:02 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Grampa Dave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFvujknrBuE


37 posted on 07/23/2014 5:37:17 AM PDT by John W (Summer of Recovery VI: This Time We're Serious)
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To: Innovative; V_TWIN; Common Sense 101; Sooth2222; SampleMan; JudyinCanada; ArtDodger; nhwingut; ...
These polls cannot be trusted to predict future elections, since they don't select out "likely voters".

So what good, if any are they?
Well, for one, it's fascinating to compare different presidents at the same times in their terms.

According to this chart, Presidents Truman, Kennedy/Johnson, Nixon/Ford and Bush II were all around the same levels as O'bama in their sixth year.
Then all but Johnson continued to slide below 30% approval.
Carter and Bush I both fell below 40% in their first term and were not reelected.

Possible that what held Johnson's numbers over 40% are the same factors keeping O'bama's there -- "civil rights" support.
It's also a fact that though Vietnam went badly for Johnson, the economy was doing great, and as somebody famous once said: "it's the economy, stupid".
So Johnson ended his presidency about where O'bama is now.

What does this predict for the future?
Truman, Kennedy/Johnson, Nixon/Ford, Carter, Bush I and Bush II were all followed by presidents from the other party.

38 posted on 07/23/2014 5:37:20 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: Innovative

That witch would have had Mary on line at the PP clinic. Who’s she kidding.


39 posted on 07/23/2014 5:38:14 AM PDT by jersey117 (sams.)
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To: jersey117

Oops. Thought I was posting on the Pelosi Jesus refugee thread.


40 posted on 07/23/2014 5:39:26 AM PDT by jersey117 (sams.)
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