Breaking: President Obama regains majority approval in Gallup daily tracking-51%

[Politics_Guy25]

http://www.gallup.com

After being stuck at 49% for a week, President Obama has once again regained majority approval in Gallup Daily Tracking. He's at 51%. Most presidents who dip under 50% usuually regain majority approval in less than a month, President Obama managed to do it in a week. As the senate opens its HCR debate tommorrow and he rights the ship on the Afghanistan strategy in a nationally televised address (on all broadcast and cable networks) Tuesday at 8, these numbers should only go up. 56-57% by this time next Sunday I predict.

His disapproval is down to 40% as well.

Of course, CNN, ABC, CBS have him at between 53-56% so its not clear he ever lost majority approval but regardless he has it back.

[Peacetrain]

1. Good to see.. the polls do up and down..

glad to see them going back the other way

[Politics_Guy25]

2. Indeed they do go up and down

And its largely irrelevant as well but its good news like you mentioned and fun to post:)

[Peacetrain]

4. Especially on a Sunday!!

I do not know what it is about Sunday..but it is usually loopy in here :toast:

[Cha]

14. Sundays can be crazy

but this particular Sunday..Reality is getting purchase~:toast:

[tridim]

3. 51% with the racist South is very impressive

[Peacetrain]

5. Dang, I did not even think of it that way..

Better yet :)

[impik]

11. Take the South out and he's at 65%

Most people are not *that* stupid. They know what a shitstorm he inherited and they see how hard he's working.

[Clio the Leo]

23. lol, I'm trying! NT

[uponit7771]

28. That's a good number...

[Lord Helmet]

6. Not bad for being in the middle of a shit storm.

[Cha]

13. Second that nasty fact.

[jpak]

7. NOOooooo!!1111 Obama is worse than Bush!!!!!1111 He must fail!!11

waaaaaa!!111

:cry:

[Alcibiades]

8. Probably all the good press he's getting

because the media love nothing more than a nice, fat escalation.

What's this? They ding him for dithering, and then ding him for announcing a decision that was actually made months ago? And his approval goes up anyway?

[Cha]

12. I just know you mean ..

in spite of any corporatemediawhore press.

[bvar22]

9. I wouldn't call these HARD numbers.

In every public poll, I give Obama the highest marks possible.
I go out of my way to vote in polls that I would normally ignore.
In public conversations, I am one of his most ardent supporters.

Privately, and on DU, I am VERY disappointed, and am looking for Liberal alternatives to a president that I NOW consider more conservative and Anti-Working Class than Clinton.

I am not the only one.
I believe Obama's REAL support among "Independents who voted for change" and "Democrats from the Democratic Wing" is very soft.



"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans. I want us to compete for that great mass of voters that want a party that will stand up for working Americans, family farmers, and people who haven't felt the benefits of the economic upturn."---Paul Wellstone

[FrenchieCat]

16. You're looking for an alternative after giving the man 10 Months?

You mean thus far although Obama's got bills in both houses that contain a Public Option,
Is withdrawing in Iraq, a wrong war that he didn't start and was always against,
while laying out an exit strategy for a war that has been neglected for 8 years,
made serious inroad with restoring not only our Reputation with our allies,
but also with Muslim nations,
has pledge and is working to cut Nuclear arms in this country and others,
won a Nobel Peace Prize,
passed the biggest middle class tax cut in history,
passed a stimulus that kept our states going, and people working,
passed the biggest budget containing increases for spending in education,
the sciences, infrastructure and alternative energy,
is going to Copenhagen to finally deal with Climate Change,
is closing Quantanemo, and bringing some of the detainees onto US soil for a public trial,
selected the First Latino Judge on the Supreme Court,
has signed a bill giving women equal pay,
and signed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009.
and put at the head of the FCC an individual who supports Net Neutrality,
signed the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009, one of the most sweeping pieces of conservation and public land management legislation in years,
signed the the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act,
and is currently working on getting banking regulations passed,

and you believe him to be more conservative than the former President
who gave us NAFTA that outsourced our jobs, DOMA, DADT, Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act,
and the telecommunications Act of 1996, and said later to Darfur, but Albania here we come?

Damn, you are something!

Guess Bubbas always do better no matter their performance.

[bvar22]

18. No.

Looking for alternatives after 20 years of Anti-Working Class Democratic Leadership.
It is not about Obama.
I actually like the man and his family.
He IS a charismatic orator.

I've NEVER been about personalities.
I'm ALL about Policy and Direction.
It IS about the Leadership of the Democratic Party.



The DLC New Team
Republican Lite ONLY!
Pro Working Class Democrats need NOT apply.

(Screen Capped from the DLC Website)


"I am a New Democrat"---Barack Obama
http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254931&kaid=85&subid=900184

I have seen nothing from the Obama administration that is in opposition with the Pro-Corporate/Anti-LABOR alignment of his cabinet, especially his proclivity for abandoning the entire Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party in search of a single Republican vote. I hope the Democratic Wing stands fast in its threat to filibuster any Health Reform Bill that does NOT contain a viable Public Option.

I have been a Pro-Working Class Democrat for 45 years.
I'm NOT going to surrender MY values simply because a man named Obama is president.


"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans. I want us to compete for that great mass of voters that want a party that will stand up for working Americans, family farmers, and people who haven't felt the benefits of the economic upturn."---Paul Wellstone

[FrenchieCat]

19. If you are looking to find an alternative to the current President after 10 months....

after I have listed some of his first 10 months' worth of accomplishments,
and then you tell me that it ain't him, it is the policies....

Well, I don't believe you.
If it were about the policies, your time would spend on such,
and not on looking for someone to replace this President.

Considering that Wellstone is in your Sig, and your unfavorable comparison of the current President,
to a former President, actually telegraphs the message that it is indeed specific politicians
that you find it important to comment about....
since you did not comment on as single one of the progressive accomplishments I listed for you.

[avalonofmists]

27. I lived in MN at the time of Paul's death. It still tugs at my soul. There

was so much promise at that time. I am a working class Dem still, but these last few years have tried my spirits.

[bvar22]

30. I was living in St Paul....

...and campaigning for Wellstone at the time.
The photo in my post above was taken at the Labor Day Picnic on Harriet Island shortly before his death.

One of the last REAL "Democrats".

[Political Heretic]

20. You are missing the point with the accomplishment laundry list:

You bet, this administration has done good things. I'm glad for each and every one of them, though there are several things on that list that I feel you have seriously misrepresented, or oversimplied, in order to produce a the "list."

Rather than deconstruct those, which is easy to do and I have done before, I'd rather focus on a different point....

The administration has done good things. Only you who hate critics claim that we (critics) are somehow claiming that's not the case.

The question you refuse to address is this: Now what do those accomplishments that have to do with criticism of the direction - not the "speed" - the administration has chosen on a variety of issues (that I would specifically detail below) that are crucial?

Answer: absolutely nothing.

I'm really glad this administration has the incredibly, really historic, super impacting, major policy accomplishment of "signing the "Edward M. Kennedy Serve American Act" or "going to Copenhagen....."

But unfortunately the characterization of health care reform, money spend on education, infrastructure and energy, or listing as an accomplishment the play to soon start talking about financial regulation leave much to be desire.

In the end, a laundry list of accomplishments - big or small - is irrelevant. This isn't a game. We're not keeping score.

Other accomplishments really have nothing to do with my criticism and disappointment that the democratic party leaders, congressional democrats in majority, and this presidential administration are guilty of prioritizing the wants and whims of the financial elite ahead of the needs of the poor and working class.


My criticisms include:

- my belief that a trickle-down approach to economics governs both party and this administration - serve wall street, insurance, banks, energy first and the benefits will then "trickle down" to ordinary Americans.

- my belief that the handling of the financial crisis and subsequent recession have not only been clearly "trickle-down" and serve-wall-street-first in approach, but is also making the recession created by the Bush era worse and longer than it should be.

- my belief that it is also squandering the opportunity for real economic "change I can believe in" in exchange for returning to the boom/worse-bust-than-the-time-before status quo that Wall Street prefers (because in every bust, the taxpayers subsidize their loses and they make billions.)

- my belief that handling of Iraq, Afghanistan, and broader middle eastern foreign policy continues to prioritize the wants and whims of power and privilege ahead of the needs of ordinary people. Ordinary people being the poor and working class who fight our wars for the rich, or the ordinary civilians killed for our agenda

- my belief that when it comes to the current health care debate and legislative process, Democrats have again chosen a trickle-down approach, prioritizing the wants and whims of wall street and insurance mega-corporations over the needs of the poor and working class.

- my belief that the broad, underlying philosophy being clearly demonstrated by this administration (in keeping with the last democratic administration) is what Bill Clinton called "Pro-business pragmatism" - a euphemism for trickle-down, supply side economics. The democrats and this administration have consistently chosen a trickle-down approach to every economic decision, rather than a trickle-UP approach which is based on sane economic and social principles rather than elitist ideology.


Every time this administration accomplishes something that prioritizes the needs of the poor, working class or the broader 80% of people can make up "ordinary America" ahead of the wants and whims of the financial elite - I cheer.

But that will never erase areas of criticism - one has nothing to do with the other.



Not to mention the fact that a statement like this:

"passed a stimulus that kept our states going, and people working," is laughably inaccurate and deeply insulting to the increasing number of people without jobs, and states that continue to be in financial disaster.

There's a lot of over-generalized statements like that which read more like a PR sheet than a serious discussion of policy or the challenges with policy.

[Kdillard]

10. k and r

[Robbins]

15. Gallup

I predicted this when It dipped to 49 percent.Remember Clinton had dropped even further at this time.
The MSM's sacred figure reagan also had dipped.Of course they don't want to mention these facts.
Obama's dip Is caused by some of the moderate Obama Republicans(yes they are some of those who voted
him In)and by some of the Democratic base.

I defently don't agree with some things he has done.I don't support any surge In afghanstain.I don't
like all the compromises we have had to make on Helath Care to the centists Democrats.And even all that Isn't enought for traitor Lieberman,or the worst Dems Ben Nelson,Lincoln,and Landauru.But,there
are other ways we can agree with him.The stimulas(although It was weaken) keeping the GM and Crysler
workers from all being laid off(without the stimulas and GM and Crysler bailouts unemployment would be a lot worse) pulling from brink of depression.Trying to close Gitmo.Continuing the pullout from
Iraq.No more tax cuts for wealthy.Attempting to reapar Image In the world.Letting the Bush tax cuts
expires In 2011.

[Cha]

17. Thanks for your view, Robbins..

and bringing some reality into it.

[mcablue]

21. Let's make up our minds. Is Gallup a bad pollster yes or no?

We seem to have a love-hate relationship with Gallup, depending on whether their polls tell us what we want to hear or what we don't want to hear.

[PBS Poll-435]

22. Gallup seems to be middle of the road

Assmussen tilts right and NBC & ABC/WaPo tilt a little to the left.

[Cha]

25. Who knows..maybe it's higher?

[Beacool]

29. It depends.

If Obama's polls are up, then it's good. If they are down, then it's bad.

:eyes:



:7

[Clio the Leo]

24. I always like to count back three days to try and figure out what causes any shift...

.... three days ago was Thanksgiving.

It was that "Obama slowly throws the football to the little girl" ad that did it no doubt. :)

[Phx_Dem]

31. Or maybe it was his Afganistan decision?

Since that was the only big news from the White House in a week.

[NJmaverick]

26. I guess facts do matter