In addition to the previously reported Rasmussen poll results showing %Oslash for the first time with an overall negative approval rating at -2%, here are some other numbers from today’s Rasmussen survey:
- On the subject of partisan politics, 53% of U.S. voters now say President Obama is governing like a partisan Democrat. Of these respondents, 58% are not affiliated with either major part.
- 51% of voters say it is at least somewhat likely that the next president will be a Republican. 32% say it is very likely.
It’s getting pretty juicy on the health care reform front as well. Among those opposed to the health care reform legislation working its way through Congress, 60% are independent. 78% believe that health care reform is likely to lead to middle class tax hikes.
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I am somewhat apprehensive regarding, and want to advise against, the increasing resort to polling data that I see on this site. I could not easily recount the number of times, at Contentions, that this topic came up, but I definitely recall the rebuke that so-called trolls received at conservative hands for resorting to them in lieu of argument.
Polling data are volatility itself and may reverse literally overnight. Moreover, as has been said many times before, indeed as has ben predicted many times before, the decline in Oslash’s approval ratings is quite routine.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Joe – -trolls at Contentions tended to use polls to stifle debate about an issue — ie shut up and look at the polls you right wingnuts — you lost. Polling data does have legitimate uses though — in the presidential horse race and congressional election predictions etc. If just polling numbers were being used to argue against %Oslash’s programs that would be one thing. But I think the case against the healthcare initiative has been made here and in numerous other places and polling data merely indicates that the public is being swayed.
It also helps to assess a President whose principal lifetime accomplishment seems to have been to get his personal popularity high enough that he could be elected president with little real qualifications.
Also, I think that 90% of the posters here probably agree with me ….
July 24th, 2009 at 11:17 am
nokar, I understand, but(you knew that was coming) como dicono gli Italiani:
la vendetta e una piata che bene magiata fresca
This “dish” is still a little too warm, I think.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Correction “mangiate” should be “mangiata.”
July 24th, 2009 at 11:28 am
I think I had this recently in red sauce.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Joe,
Apparently polling data is not all that anathema to the staff of Contentions, judging from Contentions this today.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Una gada da vita
July 24th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Howard #6: I couldn’t get the link to the Contentions piece to work.
July 24th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
@ 8: You’re right, Peter. I’m not sure what happened. We’re having come technical difficulties here today. The link anyway is here.
July 24th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
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