[tatown]

Basically what Rasmussen is showing is that Obamas bad week has has essentially no impact on his poll numbers. He is right back to where he’s been for the last several months.

[altura]

He will always have a certain percent of loyal followers, which include NPR listeners (elitist types), minorities and socialists. This bloc may keep him at -20 or better.

[Hawthorn]

>> He is right back to where he’s been for the last several months <<

Not correct. The average Index value for the month of December was about -14.6. So today’s number (minus sixteen) is still below the December average. And December was lower than November, November was lower than October, etc.

Now to be sure, next week at this time — when we have all the numbers for January — it may turn out that the January average was higher than the December average. It just remains to be seen. But I doubt it.

[Cheerio]

Basically what Rasmussen is showing is that Obamas bad week has has essentially no impact on his poll numbers. He is right back to where he’s been for the last several months.

It is a measurement of the percentage of the American population that are sucking down the RAT kool aid just as though there were living in the past in the "Peoples Temple Agricultural Project", Jonestown, Guyana.