Obama and the Polls

I looked at the NY Times' poll on Obama. It's complicated but I wouldn't put much faith in it. Going over the many issues, too many numbers don't add up. Just one example - people want tax cuts and not government spending, yet they love Obama's plan. Hello? Can you say disconnect. At some point when there's some serious polling not done by cheerleaders, I suspect we'll be seeing some very different results.

Oba-love may be tainted more than we know.

Comments

[Mark Turner]

I use Rasmussen as a source because they usually poll "likely voters" as opposed to "registered voters" or "adults". Probably a bit more accurate...

With regard to popularity, Obama's numbers are on a noticably downward trend, though still quite high and pretty similar to Clinton and Bush in their first 100 days; about 58% approval, 40% disapproval. Individual issues and opinions of his performance are all over the map with regard to polling numbers. I think his election and popularity are less about a mandate for his agenda (American voters typically don't like extremes of ideology, and he's taken a hard left turn); it's more about his personal charisma and perceived "coolness". I would expect them approval numbers to stabilize in the 50-55% range, since he only received 53% of the popular vote. However, they'll go much lower if he alienates the core Democratic base. Too early to tell yet for that; people are giving him a chance, but many have decided early.

[Mark Turner]

correction: "them approval" --> "the approval"

[WBestPresidentEver]

I wonder how fall the market will fall in the days to come especially if THAT ONE talks about tax increases tonight with his speech, and he proposed cuts in this and that and bank take overs and such.

If a sneak preview of his speech to congress shows up some where today before it actually does it and it is not what wall street wants to hear look for the stocks to fall more today INSTEAD OF TOMORROW.

Looks like everytime he speaks more of his brains fly out. Whenever anyone in his circle of idiots speaks the market goes south. But...I guess that is his objective. He hates Rich folks, except of course for himself and his buds.
The man is pathetic. His whole circle is pathetic.

[WestWright]

The Short Sellers are poised to take the market down to 5K after BO talks. But the upside is what good the millions of taxpayer $$$$ will do for Beaver Control and Pig Stink.

[GOP08_DOA]

You right wing nutjobs need to get out more. Living in your echo chamber is only making you more irrelevant.

[templar knight]

Your messiah is wrecking the economy, and you want to call someone irrelevant, eh? You're drunk, or stupid, or both. You ought to get an education, dufus. And start with Economics 101.

[GOP08_DOA]

templar knight said: "Your messiah is wrecking the economy..."

I'm pretty sure it was George W. Bush who did the wrecking. Not only are you wingnuts insulated, but you've got a bad case of amnesia as well.

[seekeronos]

"--- I'm pretty sure it was George W. Bush who did the wrecking. Not only are you wingnuts insulated, but you've got a bad case of amnesia as well. ---"

Try again, doofus.

Presidents cannot single-handedly wreck economies.

Congresses though, that's a whole 'nother story, especially Democratic-controlled Congresses with gobs of pork to feed the masses whose votes they want to buy.

[Mark Turner]

templar knight, GOP08_DOA -

The current economic crisis is the result of decades of the following, which involves both political parties:

-reckless government spending
-reckless consumer spending
-reckless lending by financial institutions (subprime lending, generous credit limits)
-entitlement culture (at individual, corporate, and government levels)

Bush made his contributions to the above, but the Obama administration has continued it -- the recent "stimulus" package is a noteworthy example. His talk of fiscal responsibility rings very hollow with me.