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because its just one day, and the election is 15 months from now.
as sanrene stated in 08, numbers this far out are irrelevant.
but then she comes in today with a poll saying a poll a year out from the election is relevant?
she also continues to dodge my statements on rick perry because she knows they are true.
You're missing an important part of the story here which is the 2008 contest was between two candidates (or more) who had never been president. Today, one of the people in this race has been president and the 2012 election is a referendum on that president's record.
Fifteen months out Obama's numbers suck and are steadily trending downward. To win on election day he has to get that approval number back up to 52% at the very minimum. Bush II squeaked out the slimmest of victories against Kerry with a 52% Gallup approval rating on election day 2004, but in 2004 the economy was much better than it is today and we were only fighting two wars.
You are correct that fifteen months is a long time in politics, but it's also a long time to have not already begun to trend upward. If I see anything in Obama's numbers it's an acceleration of his negative trend, and I don't see from history any president except Truman having the sort of dramatic last minute turn around Obama would need to pull off a win.
The stimulus package was way too small. China passed a similar stimulus package that would have been 2 trillion if compared to our situation.
I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how decreasing demand will lead to more economic activity.
LOL, I see you're parroting the liberal talking points. If throwing $1T at the economy didn't work at all other than adding significantly to our debt (thus ensuring our credit downgrade), then why on Earth would you propose doubling the failure? One enormous failure wasn't good enough, so you want to DOUBLE the size of the failure? WOW.
You have it exactly right, of course. The response from obama's supporters IS predictable...but I'm waiting for them to start calling Gallup a right-wing tool, since Gallup has obama tanking the most out of all the pollsters.
His agenda is DOA. There will be no more failed stimuli.
Ohhhhhhhh........He should seriously reconsider his luxury vaca - he's liable to get down around 30 with the images coming out of Ma's Vine.
Amazing, isn't it? Most of his supporters are absolutely clueless about what he's doing.
Only to say his approval, right now in the Gallup, would lose him the election.
They grasp the severity of his situation....they won't admit it though.
Yes, his only hope is the economy picking up...and all the forecasts say that won't happen.
If you disagree with his ruinous politics, why?
The speech was horrendous.
Remember, finger on the scale. They probably have the tracker so skewed towards democrats right now.
They would lose all credibility - isn't Gallup the gold standard for them?
Not a chance of that happening.
It will happen or Republicans can take the blame for cutting the military and Medicare.
Yawn more spin, dodge and deflect from the hardcore right wingers. If you want to complain about low approval numbers, just look at congress. After the republicans took over the house, they tanked the congressional approval to the lowest in US history, a whopping 14%. Nice work GOP/Tea party! Palin for president!
To suggest that it has no significance is absurd. Are libs really as happy with a -15 as they would be with a +15 at this point in the cycle? Of course not!
Reagan was only 5 points higher, but the news in August 1983 was businesses were hiring, inflation was falling and the economy was booming. He would go on to win a second term with a 60% approval rating and one of the most lop-sided electoral victories in our nation's history. Obama has only failed, and he has failed consistently by every measure imaginable. There is no upward Obama trend because there is no good news to drive such a trend.
Originally Posted by TempesT68 Yawn more spin, dodge and deflect from the hardcore right wingers. If you want to complain about low approval numbers, just look at congress. After the republicans took over the house, they tanked the congressional approval to the lowest in US history, a whopping 14%. Nice work GOP/Tea party! Palin for president!
39% is bad, but we are still a long way out from election time. Let's see how this number looks in the next few weeks when gas prices are expected to drop 50 cents.
The left said last month that gas prices were going to drop $.50. Still waiting for the impact from Obama releasing oil from the reserves are we?
Look for neo-prog Obamatrons to get testier as 2012 looms nearer.
Dangit, I must spread some love around before repping you again.
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WOW.
