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Obama Gets Strong Support in Poll
Wall Street Journal ^ | MARCH 5, 2009, 1:23 P.M. | LAURA MECKLER

Posted on 03/05/2009 3:31:38 PM PST by fiodora

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama enjoys widespread backing from a frightened American public for his ambitious, front-loaded agenda, a new poll indicates.

He is more popular than ever, Americans are hopeful about his leadership, and opposition Republicans are getting drubbed in public opinion, the new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll suggests.

POLL: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123612000246123253.html#project%3DWSJNBC090302%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; bho44; bhojobapproval; first100days; freeppoll; polls; pravdamedia; yellowjournalism; zogbyism
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To: fiodora

NBC=Nothing But CR__!


21 posted on 03/05/2009 3:38:34 PM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli now reads "Oil the gun..eat the cannolis.")
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To: fiodora

I voted, but from the looks of the numbers, we don’t have a chance on his one.


22 posted on 03/05/2009 3:38:59 PM PST by Gator113 (For America to survive, Obama must fail.....)
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To: Texas Fossil

W was at 63% at this time in 2001 and even after the SCOTUS “selected not elected” BS. I hate the media...


23 posted on 03/05/2009 3:41:09 PM PST by eureka! (Elections have consequences, boy howdy. *sigh*)
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To: Gator113

“If this is actually true and really representative of the majority of folks in this country, we’ve had it.”
* * * * * *

Although some of these polls may be skewed, it would appear that those of us who pride ourselves on being conservatives are in a definite minority, and that does not bode well for the future.


24 posted on 03/05/2009 3:41:27 PM PST by Canedawg (Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.)
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To: bikerman
"the sheep will support him all the way to the poor house."

That is what they did with Roosevelt

25 posted on 03/05/2009 3:41:34 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: prismsinc

It is like a freaking cult! These ignorant and hopeless morons [taking your own words] even applaud when the Messiah is organizing [as a community organizer he is] his “Wednesday Soirees” with our taxes!!


26 posted on 03/05/2009 3:42:00 PM PST by fiodora
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To: Texas Fossil
If he has 60% approval rating, how do you explain the record gun sales?

The other 40% or less are buying the guns.

I seem to recall a lot of "Don't believe the polls!" around election time, too, when they were saying Obama was going to win. :(

It's gonna be a long four years. People aren't going to just listen to the folks from our side telling them they're wrong--they're going to have to find out for themselves through the bitter experiences ahead.

27 posted on 03/05/2009 3:43:03 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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To: fiodora

NBC polls are propaganda polls. Besides his celebrity status is largely irrelevant to his capability. He is a clown. He appears in public and one hears the faint sound of a distant steam calliope. What a mess!


28 posted on 03/05/2009 3:43:39 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: fiodora

This is Stockholm Syndrome to the nth degree.


29 posted on 03/05/2009 3:44:16 PM PST by techno
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To: TurtleUp

More governing by consensus, hey? He who would live by the polls shall surely die by them, when the inevitable reversal sets in. The supposed benefits were front-loaded, but that means the reckoning and restoration will be coming at us like a hurling locomotive approaching an unguarded crossing.

And we will be out of fuel sitting on the tracks.


30 posted on 03/05/2009 3:44:40 PM PST by alloysteel (Obama was lying, your rights are dying)
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To: ronnie raygun

That was exactly my thought!!! I could NOT believe this poll and/or anything I read, lately. I agree 100% with you!!!


31 posted on 03/05/2009 3:45:27 PM PST by fiodora
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To: fiodora

I’m starting to feel like Ferris Bueller’s sister.


32 posted on 03/05/2009 3:45:43 PM PST by the Real fifi
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To: fiodora

Still maintain that 2/3 of Americans are totally brain dead.


33 posted on 03/05/2009 3:45:57 PM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: techno

With Kramer, Gergen and Brooks admitting an error in judgment I predict by April 1 Obama’s poll numbers will be lower.


34 posted on 03/05/2009 3:46:58 PM PST by techno
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To: fiodora

She works for AP, enough said.

Here is critical article about Meckler’s reporting style:

http://www.nationalreview.com/daily/nrprint010501.html

Inapt AP
A dishonest attack on Linda Chavez.

By NR’s John J. Miller & Ramesh Ponnuru

“First the far Left savaged Labor Secretary nominee Linda Chavez. Now its surrogates in the mainstream press have decided to jump in: Today’s Associated Press story by Laura Meckler is a particular disgrace. In what is ostensibly a news report, Meckler performs a selective review of Chavez’s various writings and then invites feminist critics to say she “has no business in the U.S. government.” It is a hit job, dressed up as objective journalism.”

Meckler does her dishonest best to distort Chavez’s views. She claims, for instance, that Chavez “ridiculed the Americans with Disabilities Act as ‘special treatment in the name of accommodating the disabled.’”


35 posted on 03/05/2009 3:48:04 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: fiodora
Just wait until the "energy prices under [Obama's] plan, necessarily skyrocket"...and taxes go WAY UP, then they'll ask, "hey where'd all our money go?"


WE GOT YOUR MONEY. . .
GONNA SPEND YOUR MONEY. . .
GONNA PRINT SOME MORE MONEY . . .

36 posted on 03/05/2009 3:50:46 PM PST by Invisible Ninja (Welcome to the Parallel Universe, where good is evil and evil is good.)
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To: 82ndABNOfficer
82ndABNOfficer wrote Americans are so stupid, I can’t believe this. What have we become? ....Each decade our kids get worse and worse, and our politicians become more and more entrenched in corruption and political elitism.

82ndABNOfficer, I really share the pain I hear in your post. I can't offer one hopeful word.

37 posted on 03/05/2009 3:50:47 PM PST by Old_Grouch (61 and AARP-free)
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To: fiodora

It’s early. His honeymoon won’t last for long. Once it’s obvious things are only going to get worse under his massive spending, people will start to turn away. In the meantime, hopefully the GOP will return to its fiscally conservative roots instead of clinging to the liberal-in-sheep’s-clothing neocon fiscal policies.


38 posted on 03/05/2009 3:51:05 PM PST by Being-And-Time
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To: 82ndABNOfficer
"Americans are so stupid, I can’t believe this. What have we become?"

A sick nation that invites the enemy into their homes.


39 posted on 03/05/2009 3:52:09 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: fiodora

This fakey poll has been out for days.


40 posted on 03/05/2009 3:52:24 PM PST by dforest
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