posted May 20, 2010 09:26 AM            

I was more interested recently in an interview with Author Jonathan Alter about his book The Promise.

We had heard that the O'man was the only one in the cabinet that wanted to move forward with HCR in the later days. Rahm Emanuel pleading with him to set it aside for now and come back. Alter says that is true, and that in all of the interviews for this book the President is the person to thank for the continuation of the goal for Health Insurance Reform.

What is most interesting is that Obama knew his approval ratings would go in the dumpster quickly with the programs and agenda, shoot, Americans didn't want Social Security when it was first sold to them, or Medicaid, or even the first Department of Sanitation for ____sake. We hate change! It was accepted where the numbers would go. But you know what? The important numbers are the jobs, and those are gaining.

In fact the job loss hemorrhage has lessened quite a bit. Long, long, way to go though.

I could care a less about this approval poll either.=>

WEEKLY AVERAGES FROM GALLUP DAILY POLLING
2010 May 10-16

• Approve 49%
  

• Disapprove 43%
  

• No opinion 7%

posted May 20, 2010 02:01 PM            

yes interestingly obama seems to take a long perspective as opposed to worrying about what the polls spew out on a daily basis...indicating someone not blown about by each momentary change of direction in the wind.

posted May 20, 2010 09:50 PM            

The Rasmussen poll is the most accurate...as proved by polling results and their calls on recent presidential voting results.

Node, of course O'Bomber could reasonably expect his job approval ratings to fall out of the sky when.....he attempts to rule without the consent of the American people...instead of govern with the consent of the American people.

posted May 25, 2010 10:51 AM            

The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern.

posted May 26, 2010 12:49 PM            

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-five percent (45%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -22. That’s the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for this president.

Enthusiasm for the president among Democrats, which bounced following passage of the health care law, has faded again. Just 48% of those in the president’s party now Strongly Approve of Obama’s performance. That’s down from 65% earlier.

posted May 27, 2010 10:55 AM            

Republicans would need to pick up about 40 House seats and 9 Senate seats to take control of Congress...and you're saying they won't?

posted May 27, 2010 03:34 PM            

Typical off year elections do not produce the turnover of House members and Senate members sufficient for Republicans to take control of the House and/or Senate.

posted May 27, 2010 10:58 PM            

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Well acoustic, if I understand your take on the coming elections; you believe demoscats will still control the House and Senate after the November elections.

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Wow! You really can't reason, can you? No, I neither said nor implied nor even meant that.

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Republicans would need to pick up about 40 House seats and 9 Senate seats to take control of Congress...and you're saying they won't?

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I don't know exactly what will happen, but of course I do expect Republicans to gain some seats.

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Acoustic says this coming election will be a typical off year election.

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posted May 27, 2010 11:36 PM            

"No, it's not. By and large, this November will be fairly typical....acoustic"

"Acoustic says this coming election will be a typical off year election."...me

"Typical off year elections do not produce the turnover of House members and Senate members sufficient for Republicans to take control of the House and/or Senate...me"

"Well acoustic, if I understand your take on the coming elections; you believe demoscats will still control the House and Senate after the November elections."...me

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Wow! You really can't reason, can you? No, I neither said nor implied nor even meant that....acoustic

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hahaha

acoustic, the more you share your mind with us here, the more I'm convinced you have no idea what you're saying.

A typical off year election in November would see the loss of 25-30 House seats of the President's party and 2-3 Senate seats.

Republicans need a 40 seat pickup in the House and 10 Senate Seats to take control of Congress.

A "fairly typical" midterm election in November wouldn't get that job done....so acoustic, you were saying demoscats will still control the House and Senate after the November elections.

You just didn't know that's what you were saying.

posted May 28, 2010 01:09 AM            

My point is simple. It doesn't matter.

posted May 28, 2010 08:44 AM            

The demoscat/republican numbers split in the House and Senate are not typical.

I'm not responsible for the lack of understanding of your sources acoustic...or yours either.

Btw, demoscats have had control of Congress since the elections of 2006...that's going on 4 years.

It's this demoscat Congress who have had the lowest job approval ratings since polling on that subject began....down to a 9% job approval rating. 9%!

There's a tsunami rolling towards Washington D.C.

demoscats know it. That's the reason they're wetting themselves and attempting to pass every harebrained Socialist scheme in O'Bomber's quiver...before they get thrown out of Congress.

demoscats fall back position states that losing Congress will help O'Bomber.

posted May 28, 2010 10:10 AM            

It's not I who doesn't know what "Most" means.

It's not I who doesn't know what "typical" means.

It's not I who believes losing the Congress of the United States would be a good break for O'Bomber.

posted May 28, 2010 02:58 PM            

O'Bomber has handed out more goodies from the public treasury...tax payer money...to his corporate buds than Bush ever did.

And yes katatonic. demoscats have been in charge of the Congress since 2006...so any of the Bush so called excesses were approved by demoscats...just as O'Bomber's total execsses have been demoscat approved.

Bush put corporate executives in prison when they broke the law...lots and lots of corporate executives.

O'Bomber hands them taxpayer money to continue their excesses and criminality.

posted May 28, 2010 05:46 PM            

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It's not I who plays the mushroom here while you're kept in the dark and fed a constant diet of horseshiiit.

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posted May 29, 2010 11:04 AM            

You know acoustic; people who think we are heading for a "typical" midterm election.

People who think O'Bomber's position would be enhanced by losing the Congress in November.

posted June 02, 2010 07:47 AM            

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The scorn of an idiot is hardly cause for concern....acoustic

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That's what Bush said when you accused him of murder.

That's what Bush said when you accused him of pressuring the CIA and distorting their intelligence reports.

That's what the American people said when you accused them of oppressing/repressing the Iraqi people.

That's what the American people said when you said Americans are complicit in killing Iraqi children because we didn't send Saddam a water treatment plant.

posted June 02, 2010 08:04 AM            

You think thinning the herd of fraud and con artists isn't necessary?

That's what Kommander Korruption thought too. That's the reason the decade of the 1990s is known as the decade of greed.

As I recall, the main stream media had Bush painted as a friend and enabler of big business in oppressing the "people".

The list of prosecutions of so called Bush "friends" prosecuted by the Bush Justice Dept is impressive.