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Gallup tracking poll puts Obama at term-low 40%
Disapproval hits 50%. If you wonder why Barack Obama made yet another appearance at the White House podium today, wonder no longer. Over the last three quiet days for Obama, Gallup’s tracking poll...
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Change: Obama’s job approval now at … 39%
Downgrade. Alternate headline: “Blogger can’t believe Obama’s job approval still as high as 39%.” Entrenched economic despair, chaos on Wall Street, the S&P downgrade, and Democratic...
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Gallup: Obama’s job approval on the economy now … 26/71
Change. Almost 50 points underwater on the seminal issue of the age. If that holds and he figures out a way to get reelected anyway, maybe he really is the messiah. That had better be some speech next...
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Gallup: Obama’s job approval down to 38/54
Change. A new low to match today’s new low in Rasmussen. He dipped below 40 percent briefly 10 days ago but then inched up a bit. Today a little more air exits the balloon. I think he’s one golf photo...
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Obama at 37% approval, re-elect in Florida
Favorability underwater 40/55. Is it too early to say that Barack Obama has lost Florida? Not according to a new survey from Magellan Strategies, which finds the incumbent sharply under water in all...
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No way Obama’s jobs bill will pass the Senate, say — Democrats?
Fascinating. Okay, someone had better ‘fess up. Democrats lost a House seat in New York City, Barack Obama dropped below majority job approval in California, and now Senate Democrats are attacking...
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Brutal: Obama’s job approval — and favorable rating — hit new lows in NYT poll
Crater. His job approval’s been sinking for weeks along with the state of the economy and now stands at 43/50 in this poll. More significantly, though, this is the first time he’s been underwater on...
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Wow: Cain ties Perry for 2nd in new WaPo/ABC poll
Plus, Obama job approval hits new low in series. The question from last week’s sudden shift in momentum towards Herman Cain in the GOP presidential primary race was whether Cain could actually vie for...
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Gallup: Obama’s job approval the lowest at this point for any modern...
Omens. In all seriousness, it’s amazing that his numbers are as high as they are. Never in my experience has the country seemed so close to catastrophe in so many ways. Europe could implode in weeks...
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Obama rebounding?
Er … “Obama’s job-approval ratings show signs of improvement, Post-ABC poll finds.” That’s the oh-so-hopeful headline from the Washington Post about its WaPo/ABC poll, but how reliable is it, and...
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Obama money advantage disappearing
So are his state approval ratings. For a year, Republicans have worried about having to face a billion-dollar Re-Elect Obama machine in the fall. Most have just assumed that whoever wins the GOP...
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Rasmussen: Obama job approval among uncommitted voters at 20%; Update: Obama...
Whoa. Some have suggested that Republicans could nominate a syphilitic camel in 2012 and still beat Barack Obama. (Hey, I’m willing to hear the camel out; what’s his position on taxes?) That sounded...
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CNN poll: Obama’s job approval back to 50%; Update: Obama leads all GOP...
Gulp. The economy’s looking up and, thanks to our … unfortunate field of GOP presidential candidates, Republican enthusiasm’s looking down. This is the fourth national poll in two weeks in which O’s...
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Rasmussen tracking poll puts Romney up 5, Santorum up 1 over Obama
Obama 44/54 on job approval. Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll has good news for Republicans, and two of the Republican candidates. The ongoing daily survey of 500 likely voters shows Barack Obama’s...
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Oh my: Obama’s approval rating hits new low in CBS poll
41. Second look at the “war on women”? Just 41 percent of Americans approve of the job Mr. Obama is doing as president, according to the poll, conducted from March 7 to 11. Another 47 percent...
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Pew poll puts Obama approval at 50/41
More sample follies. I’ll give Pew this much credit — they did a better job of sampling in their latest poll than Reuters. That’s a bit like saying that Scary Movie 4 was a better film than...
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New poll shows Obama at 51% job approval, but …
… same old sample problems. National Journal joins Reuters and Pew in showing Barack Obama back to a 50% or better rating on job approval. The new level in the NJ/Allstate poll is Obama’s best in the...
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Obama’s job approval ticks up a point in March, while poll shows he leads...
Likability. Long ago, when I competed in pageants (and I think I’ve referenced this before), a coach told me shrewdly, “You don’t necessarily have to impress the judges. You just have to make them...
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The poll to watch right now
Numbers. To quote CBS News political director John Dickerson, right now there are more polls than in a Warsaw bar. For political news junkies, Nate Silver offers helpful advice on poll-watching. I...
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Gallup tracking poll: Obama at 43%, down seven points in two weeks
Change. Might just be statistical noise over a long campaign, but that little recent dip is interesting: I don’t know how to explain the spike halfway through the month. That represents O’s numbers...
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