CBS Ohio Poll: Obama Is A Man Without A Plan
Several interesting numbers below the numbers in a new CBS poll out of Ohio. Pelosi has a 13% approval rating, I think that's just above serial killer status. Obama is 38% approve to 58% disapprove on the economy and 34/59 percent respectively on job creation. As for Obama helping the economy, 32% say yes, 61% say no – oops! Fifty-four percent don't even think he has a plan. No wonder he's campaigning on college campuses. Students aren't in the full-time workforce, yet.
Kasich is tied with Stickland for Gov at 43/42 percent with 11% undecided, suggesting Kasich has room to close the deal with a strong ad buy in the fall. Portman is well out in front of Fisher 45/34 percent in the Senate race. The enthusiam gap is well documented in the numbers, too.
That has changed: Now, just 26 percent of Democrats say they are more enthusiastic about voting this year, while 57 percent of Republicans say they are more enthusiastic.
43 percent of Ohio likely voters said they would vote for their Republican candidate, while 39 percent said they would vote for the Democrat. Sixteen percent aren't sure.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's favorable rating in Ohio, meanwhile, is just 13 percent, and her unfavorable rating stands at 44 percent. Forty-one percent are undecided or haven't heard enough.
President Obama won the state of Ohio in 2008, but the state's residents currently do not view him favorably overall: The president's approval rating in Ohio stands at 43 percent, with 47 percent disapproving.
When it comes to the economy, the president's approval rating is just 38 percent (with 55 percent disapproving), while on job creation it is just 34 percent (with 59 percent disapproving).
Thirty-two percent of Ohio residents say the president has made progress in fixing the economy, while 61 percent say he has not. Thirty-seven percent say he has a clear plan for creating jobs, while 54 percent say does not.
Just 12 percent of the state's voters say Mr. Obama's economic programs, including the economic stimulus package, have helped them. More – 20 percent – say they have hurt. Two in three say they've had no effect.
Righty Rasmussen has Obama’s approval rating back up at 50% for the first time in six months.
“Pelosi has a 13% approval rating, I think that’s just above serial killer status.”
hey, at least dahmer got a movie. pelosi will be history’s *ss-clown.
barfo-
if rassmussen called my house, I’d tell him I’m building a shrine to our new messiah. No individual person has done more damage to his own party, as quickly or efficently, as bambi.
my gratitude for his inepitude is boundless.
Of course he has a plan!
Another relaxing vacation for some golf… and increase the amount of golfing to twice a week… he has his spare time all planned out.
“Just 12 percent of the state’s voters say Mr. Obama’s economic programs, including the economic stimulus package, have helped them. More – 20 percent – say they have hurt. Two in three say they’ve had no effect.”
they certainly had an effect.
on the deficit.
ask the poll question:
“was the stimulus worth the trillion dollar hit to the deficit?”
follow up: “do you plan on voting?”
It’s all Fox News’ fault. Don’t voters know that the can get their news from other news providers? If Obama could just figure out a way to introduce voters to the dozens of other alternative to Fox, they wouldn’t be so misinformed and stupid and would understand simple concepts like “spending your way out of a spending problem” and “borrowing your way out of debt”.
it is quite a shame about fox news.
all those other networks, bailing water out of the boat for obama, while murdoch decides to p*ss on them as they sink.
once again, for the president to single out one cable news channel, and cry wolf over their influence, just continues to demonstrate the quest for a straw man. If bush had polled to be more relevant than fox, ie more likely to get dems to vote, it would have just been another round of bush bashing.
The next two years are going to be exquisite.
“if rassmussen called my house, I’d tell him I’m building a shrine to our new messiah.”
Obama rising in the polls certainly doesn’t fit with the narrative. does it?
wouldn’t it be nice if he was on the ballot?
here’s a rather good summary of midterm turnout over the past decades:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html
the turnout has run between 37 and 39.8% for the past 9 midterm cycles.
presidential has bounced between 49.1 and 56.8% over the past presidential years.
in the context of the largest midterm turnout…
reagan, 1982. i tend to believe the economy was a motivating factor.
next on the list(last 9) is 94, 38.8%.
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take a good look at the rasmussen poll.
those polled aren’t going to vote…only those with strong sentiments.
29% strongly approve, 41% strongly disapprove.
if the midterms was just decided by this subset the gop would have 58-42 split at their backs. no, things aren’t that good, but looking at the numbers from 94, the gop ‘just’ won the national vote 47.8% to 44%. 54 seats, when they just held 176 seats. right now, they have 177 seats, and a very good chance of breaking the 50% barrier.
60 seats or less and I feel disappointed.
this election, we break the 40% turnout barrier, and the gop will get well over half the vote. motivating just 20% of the eligible population to vote? never could have been done without obama.
“Obama rising in the polls certainly doesn’t fit with the narrative. does it?”
i really shoudn’t be a grammer nazi, but the word “polls” is plural.
obama is actually at a new low in the cnn poll, 42%.
tied for his record low in the nbc poll, 45%.
new bottom on fox poll, 42%.
on the bright side:
two off from his bottom in reuters, 47%.
three up from his bottom in gallup,45%.
aside from the irony of a lib suddenly deciding to glean life from a rasmussen poll, his bottom doesn’t occur until after the election of 2010. It was when the bottom dropped out on bush, and will very likely occur under bambi.
“those polled aren’t going to vote…only those with strong sentiments.”
That’s the narrative.
That’s the Republican’s prayer.
“That’s the Republican’s prayer.”
so basically, you are in denial. been there, done that…in 2006. fight the ‘good’ fight, I guess.
“so basically, you are in denial.”
It’s pretty easy to check a box and throw your ballot in the mail.
Even if you’re not as motivated as you were last time.
trust me dude, this one is going to be a bitch.
in 06 I was already backpeddling at this point, realizing that the gop was going to lose, but accepting that if they lost, they did so on compromising their alleged conservative principals.
i did try and console myself in the belief that the democrat congress would be inextricably tied to the economic vicissitudes of the country-they wanted it, they got it.
that bubble was burst when the credit collapse occurred in 08, and the congress was held without any blame. don’t hold out any hope for a gop congress creating fertile ground for a liberal resurrection, it won’t come.
current enthusiasm is gop 48, dems 28.
can’t find the precise numbers for 2006, but…
broader reference, with some shreds of hope for dems found here:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/140819/republicans-midterm-voting-enthusiasm-tops-prior-years.aspx
ok I found it, the link is within the above link…
voter enthusiasm:
sept 2010 gop 48, dem 28.
sept 2006 gop 40, dems 47.
the one rather large x-factor is the tea party…5-10% of the voting population, which largely does not identify with the gop.
they are completely outside of every generic sampling i have seen. the very principle of belonging to the tea party IS voter enthusiasm.
i really think 2010 is going to be different from any other midterm year. turnout may not exceed 40%, largely because the moderate dems are a no show, but the margin of the % is going to be astounding.
Well, it’s not that he doesn’t have plans. In fact, he got many plans, he just can’t get them done. He’s been in his position for quite some time now and what accomplishment has he made that made the people happy? None.
“trust me dude, this one is going to be a bitch.”
I agree.
I don’t think a single one of the Tea Party candidates is going to win judging by how the polls are trending.
Gales of derisive laughter barfo
At Christine O’Donnell trying to explain all the lies on her resume, rich?
barfo: you’d better hope and, yes, pray you are wrong. If you are right, I will track you down and kill you.
Hey, don’t shoot the messenger!
I just hope that when the Republicans get in and take over the House and possibly the Senate and start fixing things, that people don’t perceive it as Obama being the one responsible for things improving, that they don’t give him credit for ‘having a plan’ and so re-elect him a’ la Clinton. It is a real danger.
The biggest joke is Pelosi at 13% approval, and, San Fran will send her back to DC. Actually, it will be more of a joy seeing her passing the gavel to a Republican in Jan. I would pay big bucks to be there to see the fire in her eyes setting it on fire, before she does a complete meltdown. I hope it is the same gavel she walked with on her way to the vote for the Progressives political suicide, Ocare.
The idea that Republicans are going to “start fixing things” is hilarious. They’re the ones that screwed the pooch in the first place.
Here’s how the Republicans are going to fix things
1. Republicans are going to solve the Deficit
2. Republicans are going to provide massive Tax Cuts
You can choose one of those, not both.
nishner- You can thank those awful Republicans for the free speech that allows you to come here and post your garbage. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, no matter how much you try to defend the indefensible, you would be chewed up and spit out with the rest of us country class folks, by those that you carry the water for.
“you would be chewed up and spit out with the rest of us country class folks, by those that you carry the water for. ”
I don’t remember the Democrats cutting off the massive federal farm subsidies that prop up the American bumpkin lifestyle.
You tell ‘em good barfo,, you tell ‘em real good cracker boy! Now don’t go git-n all proud of yo self-n-sh*t, cause I don’t like not one iota ’bout no cracker, not one,, but I sho do lub’s seein’ you at yo bess an all. You go cracker boy, you go!
“You can thank those awful Republicans for the free speech that allows you to come here and post your garbage.”
Wrong, I can thank the Bill of Rights, written long before the Republican Party exist. Really, remedial history, it’s not too late.
nishtard if you and your sockpuppet barfbrain wanna go to LGF you can go because your beginning to sicken with your hypocritical outrage against the rich anyways barfbrain we don’t need a corrupt incompetent government to prop up our american bumpkin lifestyle anyway i didn’t know forcing high fructose corn syrup nto our lifes is propping up our bumpkin lifestyle
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