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July polls: 66% of Americans view Obama favorably, Palin now at 40%
popinjay
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The vast majority of Americans in the United States hold a favorable view of President Obama. But if you've heard from small pockets of Birthers and Teabaggers represented on Fox News and viral videos, you'd think that number was astronomical. It really is a good example of how propaganda can make one thing look a certain way while reality is altogether different.
Joe Biden's numbers on the other hand, has slipped down to 48% approval which means more Americans don't like Biden than do.
Conversely, only 40% of Americans now view Sarah Palin favorably according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll.
Overall, the new poll found that 53 percent of Americans view Palin negatively and 40 percent see her in positive terms, her lowest level in Post-ABC polling since she first appeared on the national stage last summer as Sen. John McCain's running mate.
The dip in Palin's favorability comes as she gets ready to leave office Sunday with about 18 months remaining in her term and plans to turn her attention to national politics. Palin, 45, has said she intends to campaign for other like-minded candidates, and speculation has been rampant that she may seek the GOP nomination to oppose President Obama.
Joe Biden more popular than Sarah Palin. Who'da thunk it?
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"Overall, 49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Today marks the first time his overall approval rating has ever fallen below 50% among Likely Voters nationwide. Fifty-one percent (51%) disapprove."
www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
Depends upon whom you ask.
It's a good thing this poll is in my favor. If it wasn't I'd have to call it biased.
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40% of people approve pf Palin?
Dear god what is the world coming to.
Edit: No, I'm not a democratic, I just think rationally.
And what you ask them.
Your poll asks a different set of questions than the Washington Post poll. Read the questions.
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Bush kept at or above 60% favorability rating according to Gallop until 2005 and he was extremely hated by the left.
Clinton barely stayed above 55% for all 8 years according to Gallop and he used to be the left's poster child.
Did you read the whole article or just gleam what you wanted and post? You are inferring that the Republican megaphones are spouting lies, but they are not. They are saying that Obama, for being soooooo loved, is slipping in the polls, which he is. It is a very clear decline from inaguration day to the most recent poll. He's lost 12 points in 6 months.
And lastly, to quote Gallop's own page: "In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls."
Bush and Clinton are irrelevant in this discussion.
Obama, Biden and Palin are. Can't stay focused for a minute, can you?
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Bush and Clinton are irrelevant in this discussion.
Obama, Biden and Palin are. Can't stay focused for a minute, can you?
Focused? WTF are you talking about? LOOK AT THE LINK YOU POSTED! The link provides a comparison of all three. It is well within the context of the discussion to talk about what you put in your original post. Of course, you didn't read the whole thing, like I guessed and just gleaned what you wanted in a failed attempt to support your lame-brained theories.
First, you need to calm. Down. And. Take. A. Breath.
Second, there are lots of things at the end of the poll that aren't related to Palin and Obama/Biden. But I can see you are lost here, so I will drop some bread crumbs.
This poll speaks about the personal popularity of Obama and Biden of late.
I linked that with the info on Palin's popularity of late.
That was the comparsion.
You bring in a strawman of Bush and Cheney and Clinton and Gore. That is irrelevant. I was not and did not compare those two groups. You chose to compare Bush and Clinton vs Obama/Biden, and that's a different argument altogether not related to the title. You need to focus. I don't want to drag poor Mr. Bush into this.
Focusing can help. It was too late for Vendaryn the pirate troll and his "N" bomb barrage, but we can only hope it's not for everyone.
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Palins political carreer is over and Obama is president. DEAL WITH IT!
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Bush and Clinton are irrelevant in this discussion.
Obama, Biden and Palin are. Can't stay focused for a minute, can you?
Focused? WTF are you talking about? LOOK AT THE LINK YOU POSTED! The link provides a comparison of all three. It is well within the context of the discussion to talk about what you put in your original post. Of course, you didn't read the whole thing, like I guessed and just gleaned what you wanted in a failed attempt to support your lame-brained theories.
Lol were talking about pop here. He Dosent want any pesky facts that would Deture from what ever irrelevant String of loose facts he can string together.
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Pops just scared that she might really beat Obama in 2012. So he is trying to keep her in the spotlight for some reason.
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude; greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
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And what you ask them.
Your poll asks a different set of questions than the Washington Post poll. Read the questions.
Exactly. I'm not bashing yours, nor supporting mine - just simply stating you cannot solely rely on a poll of 1,000 people. It's a good number to represent a small group, but not a country of 300M.
I can't believe of all people that pop tried to pull rank on topic on someone. Father of misdirection and subject deflection.
Maybe because it's his own thread he feels he can control it to his agenda, not sure.
That poll shows me one thing more than anything else. There are cracks forming in the damn of lies. tick tock tick tock.
I never understood why polls can suddenly loose or gain credibility just based upon if they say what you want them to say. Its like the religious and science.
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Really?
I read this article this morning. It doesn't portray his steady decline as good at all. I think some of the once screwy American's are beginning to realize that he ain't the baby Jesus or that he can take care of us all.
Obama’s Poll Numbers Dip Below 50 Percent
Posted on 24 July 2009
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LOL wow gee, let's poll the president of the united states against someone who was a governor of alaska, someone recently got pushed out by the political machines from both parties. I was always intrigued by how the whole election was really between Obama vs Palin, while nobody cared much about McCain & Biden. Honestly can anybody say with a straight face that Palin wouldn't be able to do what Joe Biden has done since becoming the vice president? Yes, Palin ran as a vice, although the Democrats did a good job by putting her up there as if she was running for presidency. This thread is a good example of it.
Palin tried to do something right by attemping to break up the good boys club and wasteful spending, so the elites from both parties pushed her out by bankrupting her via frivolous lawsuits. This is a great example of what's wrong with the court system today, and why our healthcare insurance keeps on going up and up. Until frivolous lawsuits are stopped, expect us to keep paying more and more for insurance, and this healthcare bill isn't going to change any of that. This is also why washington is so messed up, because anybody who even tries to stop the wasteful spending gets pushed out just like this.
Oh well enjoy your polls. We'll see how Obama administration's diplomacy skills with Hillary handles North Korea and Iran. Thus far they haven't been able to do jack, but wait, the world see us more favorably so let's talk about that rather than the real issues facing this country today.
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That's my point, it is quite good, yet he hasn't been able to deal with the real issues that need to be taken care of. So people are happy with his foreign affairs approval ratings, meanwhile Iran & North Korea continues nuclear ambitions, and we still got american prisoners in NK.
But don't worry though, the media is in love with the president so you will hear more about his good approval ratings world-wide, but not about the real issues he has yet to handle. Not to mention when Bush was in office, you couldn't stop hearing about American soldiers dying in Iraq. Now Obama is in the office, you rarely see the media report deaths. Did you know we lost 37 American soldiers in Afghanistan *this month* ? I bet most don't know about them, because the media now choose to not report these things, because they would make Obama look bad.
Honestly, the love affair is kinda sickening. But I sure am glad to know his foreign affairs approval ratings are high though, that must mean everything is going peachy.
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That's my point, it is quite good, yet he hasn't been able to deal with the real issues that need to be taken care of. So people are happy with his foreign affairs approval ratings, meanwhile Iran & North Korea continues nuclear ambitions, and we still got american prisoners in NK.
What are you talking about? Just recently the US was working China to impose tougher sanctions. Do you want another invasion or what? Do you expect this to be solved overnight?
But don't worry though, the media is in love with the president so you will hear more about his good approval ratings world-wide, but not about the real issues he has yet to handle. Not to mention when Bush was in office, you couldn't stop hearing about American soldiers dying in Iraq. Now Obama is in the office, you rarely see the media report deaths. Did you know we lost 37 American soldiers in Afghanistan *this month* ? I bet most don't know about them, because the media now choose to not report these things, because they would make Obama look bad.
Of course I'm aware of the soldiers who have fallen in Afghanistan. The reason the media rarely reports it is because we nearly had a total economic collapse, in case you didn't notice. The reporting of the 2 wars has been slim since the economy turned really bad (before Obama took office).
Iraq was a unique case. There was hardly any support for the US troops. Most coalition forces had pulled out of there as soon after the "intel" that warranted invasion was proven to be false. That is not the case in Afghanistan. We do have support in that war.
Honestly, the love affair is kinda sickening. But I sure am glad to know his foreign affairs approval ratings are high though, that must mean everything is going peachy.
Everything is moving at the pace that should be expected. Administrations handle these things by the numbers. Well, most of them do anyway. Others invade off faulty intel.
....that's the same thing they've been trying for years, and have been unsuccessful. US haven't been able to get Russia & China to do much of anything in regards to Iran and North Korea, why? Because they have interests there (they make money off them). Who are we to tell them to stop making money right?
Anyways, I don't have a solution, but I didn't run for the highest office either. These are the same issues people criticized Bush for not handling, so I'm asking people to do the same for this administration. It's not up to me, but at least I'm not blinded by the media who chose to only report good things about this president, thus making the general public think everything is peachy.
Also get your facts straight, the support for Iraq war was huge back when it first started. I bet if you poll Americans right now, you'll find that there aren't big support for us even being in Afghanistan. But hey, media choose to not report the large amount of casualties, so I bet the general public don't even know about it to even think negatively.
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Not remotely. We had minimal support going in and what support we did have left us with our ass in the breeze when there was no connection to Al Qaeda, no enriched uranium, no WMDs.
We're getting way off topic here. If you want to discuss it further, start a new thread or have the last word on this issue. I won't bother to respond about Bush/war/foreign affairs again.
I wonder what Obama's popularity would be if you polled the people standing down in your State's unemployment line?
Think he'd hold 66%?
I'm sorry but 75% is not "minimal", even 55% which is what it went down to a couple years later is still not "minimal". I'm not debating the right/wrong of the war, I'm simply responding to your comments regarding how Iraq and Afghanistan should be treated differently. I brought up Iraq to show media bias and inconsistencies, you are the one that started to argue about it.
There's absolutely no reason the media should choose to report only good things about Obama, and not the "bad" things happening during his administration. The US suffered greatly this month in Afghanistan yet the media does not want to report it. The media is controlling how the public sees things, because general public do not research or look into things themselves. And this is on topic with this thread, because of Obama's favorable rating, which I believe is skewed by the fact that the media refuse to report anything bad about him or surrounding him.
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If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude; greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams