[SoFloFreeper]

Obamugabe up 4 to 54% approval, 42% disapproval in Gallup's poll of 1,500.

I know this was probably done before last night's debate, but how the hell does a guy go up 4 points in one day?????

[Sarah Barracuda]

Its Gallop and its LAUGHABLE..they were already threatened repeatedly by Axelrod, anything that comes from Gallop is a joke

[Perdogg]

approximately 1,500 national adults....

[MrChips]

Repeat after me five times until it sticks: GALLUP IS A JOKE.

[Biggirl]

Fear, remember what the Obama WH tried to do in regards to Gallup?

[The Sons of Liberty]

Gallup is trying to take care of their “boy” after his stumble last night.

[King Hawk]

It’s all in how you ask the question, baby! His job approval did NOT improve after last night’s debate, nor before last night’s debate.

Think it through!

[MNJohnnie]

Statistical noise. He has bumped up huge for no reason from time to time before. We need to see it stay there 4-5 days before we can id it as a new trend.

[italianquaker]

When I read it i thought it was a joke. Gallup must really be scared of axelrod. I didnt give this any thought before but cmon lol. Even barry and michelle cannot think that 54pct of America approves of him

[apillar]

Last night after they debate, word probably came down from Axelrods office to massively pad Obama’s pre-debate numbers in anticipation of the awful numbers he will have over the next couple days to “cushion” the impact (Gallup is on a 10 day rolling average). With Obama up 12 today (what a joke), even if he is down 10 points over the next couple days, it will only drop the rolling average to around +5.

[MNJohnnie]

Another possibility is they adjusted their sample mix again.

This is an example of why Gallup was number 18 in accuracy in 2008.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

” but how the hell does a guy go up 4 points in one day????? “

You don’t, unless you do something wonderful in the interim.

[GeronL]

does anyone really believe polls anymore?

[Combat_Liberalism]

Obama’s pre-debate support is like a shallow, muddy puddle. Now the hot sun has come out and it’s shrinking fast. Watch.

[Brandonmark]

Perhaps the “Bradley effect” from respondents?

[hawaiianninja]

Don’t believe a word of it. The numbers reek of Soros’ or The 0’s slush funding.

[Erik Latranyi]

It will make the decline that much more delicious!

[cschroe]

To borrow from the debate, with a slight modification to make it true for my particular family....

“Look, I’ve got three boys and a daughter. I’m used to people saying something that’s not always true but just keep repeating it and ultimately hoping I’ll believe it. But that is not the case.”

[ansel12]

You put WTF! into a title on Gallup polling.

Pretty soon we will become as hip as DU, and as unreadable.

[rwfromkansas]

I saw this and was concerned today slightly, but I don’t think it means anything. Just statistical noise since I just do not see that being real in one day.

[airedale]

You need to look at the internals. Over sample Democrats under sample Republicans and Independents. That is the easiest way. You could also over sample single women vs married women in your demographic mix along with under sampling men. That’s a little harder to spot and unpeeled you really went overboard would skewer the poll less. But if you combine the two you would get a larger skewer that would not be as obvious. To determine why it jumped you need to compare this poll to the prior one to see what the changed.