Comments on: Gallup: Obama below 50% for first time

By: Real Change is Coming: America Rising

Real Change is Coming: America Rising — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:30:14 +0000

[...] Gallup: Obama below 50% for first time (hotair.com) [...]

By: No Runny Eggs » Blog Archive » Obama’s polling continues to crater

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:10:25 +0000

[...] poll of adults showed a dip of President Obama’s job approval index below 50% (H/T – Ed Morrissey), Rasmussen Reports’ 3-day tracking poll of likely voters has Obama further under water than [...]

By: faraway

faraway — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:45:00 +0000

Hey, hey. This was in my Flash Forward.

By: jbh45

jbh45 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:43:29 +0000

If only 49% of my clients approved of my job, I would be out of work….but I don’t live in camelot.

By: technopeasant

technopeasant — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:16:38 +0000

The key 4 numbers of the week:

From the Fox News poll:

Among independent voters:

Obama’s F/UF: 34/51

Palin’s F/UF: 49/38

By: Independents bail on Obama « Internet Scofflaw

Independents bail on Obama « Internet Scofflaw — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:14:35 +0000

[...] Gallup has him at 49 so Fox’s result seems well within the [...]

By: American Elephant

American Elephant — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:11:31 +0000

So as we have learned from the mainstream media during the Bush years, all references to Obama should begin “this UNPOPULAR president”

By: nyx

nyx — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:14:37 +0000

The numerous things FDR tried, some of which were contradictory, didn’t work. It didn’t hurt his elections.

burt on November 20, 2009 at 5:00 PM

Obama is no FDR.
Can you imagine him in Pearl Harbor?
“A Date which will live in inf…Hold on folks, Let’s not jump into any conclusions. I will stand with the Japanese when the winds shift in an ugly direction. Japan might be suffering from PTSD. There are as much a victim of this bombing as America. Let me give some shoutouts before returning to my golf game. Peace”

By: modifiedcontent

modifiedcontent — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:12:33 +0000

Obama’s angle on small business support:

New York Foreign Press Center
U.S. Department of State

WHAT: New York Foreign Press Center Digital Video Conference
BRIEFER: Deputy Secretary of Commerce Dennis Hightower
TOPIC: A New Beginning: President Obama’s Entrepreneurship Summit
WHEN: Monday November 23rd at 3:00 p.m.
WHERE: 150 E. 52nd St., Fifth Floor
RSVP: Respond to this email to confirm attendance

BACKGROUND: President Obama announced that the U.S. would host this Summit on Entrepreneurship during his speech in Cairo in June 2009. Deputy Secretary Hightower will discuss the nomination process for delegates focused on entrepreneurship in countries across North Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia as well as in Muslim communities elsewhere. They will be invited to Washington next year to highlight the successes, challenges, and opportunities for entrepreneurship development – partnerships that can benefit both the United States and Muslim communities around the world. The Commerce Department’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship is now accepting nominations until the end of November. Delegate invitations will be issued on January 2010.

By: burt

burt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:03:29 +0000

Give Obama the same amount of negative coverage as Reagan, and he’d be 10 points lower.

Jon0815 on November 20, 2009 at 3:54 PM

Good point.

By: Sekhmet

Sekhmet — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:02:36 +0000

I think it’s significant because Gallup has been the last not-blatantly-partisan holdout on calling Duh Won’s approval rating below 50.

By: burt

burt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:00:42 +0000

The numerous things FDR tried, some of which were contradictory, didn’t work. It didn’t hurt his elections.

By: Dr. ZhivBlago

Dr. ZhivBlago — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:55:56 +0000

Drop began with health-care debate.

Holy cow! Really? With all of the other crap this guy’s been pulling before the Marxaid stuff the majority of folks were OK with His Highness?

Incredible.

By: PattyJ

PattyJ — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:36:53 +0000

I don’t think Obama is too worried. He had to know there would be blowback. That’s why he’s holding back the porkulus funds–the money will gush out right before the 2010 elections, and after that he’s safe. Another gusher during his reelection campaign, lots of articles in People, and the leeches with Acorn’s help will elect him again.

By: maverick muse

maverick muse — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:27:08 +0000

Not even ironic, strictly predictable. Young "idealistic" Obamatard students @ UCLA and Berkeley prefer rioting "peacefully" to paying their fair share of the tuition INCREASES. Obama tax cuts, feel the love.

By: Obama hits 49% approval rating in Gallup – a new record! | Fire Andrea Mitchell!

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:01:22 +0000

[...] A right wing extremist poll? Must be, because today for the first time since becoming President, Obama has dipped under 50% approval to [...]

By: Jon0815

Jon0815 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:54:29 +0000

Comparisons with Reagan’s polls at the same point are flawed, because Reagan was constantly under attack from a hostile, liberal MSM, at a time when the MSM was everything. In 1981 there was no Rush, no Fox News… basically just the NY Times and the three broadcast networks, all of which worked hard to spin everything as negatively as possible for Reagan.

Whereas Obama of course has been propped up by an adoring MSM, which has functioned essentially as state-run media.

Give Obama the same amount of negative coverage as Reagan, and he’d be 10 points lower.

By: DDT

DDT — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:50:47 +0000

Just keep talking,Bambi.Loving every minute of it.

By: Instapundit » Blog Archive » FOR THE FIRST TIME, Obama drops below 50% on Gallup….

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:48:29 +0000

[...] FOR THE FIRST TIME, Obama drops below 50% on Gallup. [...]

By: Annietxgrl

Annietxgrl — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:32 +0000

Bishop on November 20, 2009 at 2:54 PM

Yes, such as the students at UCSC who desired to, in the mid 80s, stockpile cyanide pills in case of nuclear war. I doubt if their mindset has changed over the years.

By: rob verdi

rob verdi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:45:40 +0000

how do you create jobs?

By: Del Dolemonte

Del Dolemonte — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:32:28 +0000

Wow, what kind of morons are in that 49%?

echosyst on November 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM

At least one of them was amusing us earlier over on the Global Warming thread.

They’ve been having a bad week.

By: LastRick

LastRick — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:27:32 +0000

technopeasant on November 20, 2009 at 3:17 PM

I’ll pull one set of numbers out of this list because I think it bears a comment.

Obama (Rasmussen): 47 52
Palin (Rasmussen): 51 43

Typically, Rasmussen is the best at getting their respondents “off the fence”. For example, look at the Obama number 47/52, meaning 1% had no opinion. For the most part, Rasmussen has been the only poll this year reporting close to the 100% mark (or, put another way, close to 0% undecideds). Looking back through July, 2% undecided is the highest I saw in a Rasmussen poll about Obama.

Then they give this 51/43 split for Palin, meaning undecideds around 6%. That’s closer to the number of undecideds you might see with Gallup. So I wonder why the discrepancy. Is that number right? And if it is, why did they go easier on undecided respondents about Palin than they do when asking about Obama?

By: mr.blacksheep

mr.blacksheep — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:26:15 +0000

what they’re doing is most decidedly not working.

Which makes it all the more ironic that Nate Silver suggests government “job” creation. When will these idiots realize that, unless the “jobs” create wealth, government spending simply moves the jobs around, while destroying value on the way through. Paying people for jobs that create no value (or value less than the workers are paid), is simply welfare.

By: Brat4life

Brat4life — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:24:59 +0000

John the Libertarian on November 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM

Yea, but their taking us with them. I wouldn’t mind if they went by themselves but taking the Country with them well it sucks.