Originally Posted By Mr X Can we see a show of hands for WE, please? (don't worry Darkbeer, no need to copy/paste some meaningless tabloid junk, we already know you're as Republican as Ronald Reagan's jelly bean jar)
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 Yet over 50% of Americans disaprove with how President Obama is handling the Presidency..... That is pretty horrible for a Democratic President if only 20% of those 50% can be attributed to Republicans...
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy ^^ What were the disapproval ratings for other presidents during severe economic recessions? What is the correlation between unemployment rate and approval/disapproval rating? You are attributing partisanship to an outcome that is likely independent of politics. It's the economy, stupid.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***Yet over 50% of Americans disaprove with how President Obama is handling the Presidency..... That is pretty horrible for a Democratic President if only 20% of those 50% can be attributed to Republicans...*** That would be assuming that every single Republican automatically disapproves of the President (not a big stretch for the lock-step crowd, I'll admit). I've heard plenty of complaints from the left side about him being too Moderate, too Corporate minded, and not Liberal enough fwiw.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Yet over 50% of Americans disaprove with how President Obama is handling the Presidency.....<< Link please? Even with his "worst poll drop in 50 years," he's still above 50% approval.
Originally Posted By Mr X I read a 49% approval somewhere. Don't have a link, but I don't have any reason to doubt it (doesn't matter much anyway at this time of year...when election time rolls around it'll matter more I suppose).
Originally Posted By DAR <<That would be assuming that every single Republican automatically disapproves of the President (not a big stretch for the lock-step crowd, I'll admit).>> You want to see some real disapproval Tune into next weeks Packers/Vikings game in Green Bay.
Originally Posted By tiggertoo RCP average has Obama at 51.7% approval rating. The latest Gallop poll has him at 51%. Also, the spread b/t approval and disapproval is still plus 10 points. That's actually not bad as Presidental approval ratings go. <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html" target="_blank">http://www.realclearpolitics.c...044.html</a>
Originally Posted By tiggertoo <<50% of Americans disaprove with how President Obama is handling the Presidency>> That is complete bunk. His average disapproval rating is at 44%. Only Ramussen has it above .500. But that poll is faulty gage as it only polls likely voters, not the general populace.
Originally Posted By utahjosh No offense, though. I was just bored with it. And I was *trying* to make a joke.
Originally Posted By tiggertoo That’s okay. On Monday I tried to explain to a friend how to use Stata 10, and he got bored and gave up within ten minutes. I have to monitor stats for a living, so I guess I’m numb to it. But it’s certainly not for everyone.
Originally Posted By gadzuux I believe there are more republicans than 20%. The remainder are just too ashamed to admit it. And who can fault them?
Originally Posted By ecdc >>I believe there are more republicans than 20%. The remainder are just too ashamed to admit it. And who can fault them?<< I also think the 20% number is way, way off. Like I've pointed out before, a great number of teabaggers (Glenn Beck, crazy person, included) do not call themselves Republican. They defended Bush for eight years and then the second he was out of office they insisted they didn't like him either. So while a lot of people refuse to self-identify as a Republican, when it comes to actual voting, they, for all practical purposes, are Republican.
Originally Posted By mawnck Worth noting that if I weren't the sort to immediately hang up on poll takers, I would put myself in the "disapprove" column for Pres. O. This for failure to marginalize his opponents when their game plan became obvious, and for ceding too much power to the Goldman Sachs branch of the government. This does not make me anything remotely resembling a Republican.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>So many jokes.....so many jokes.<< I know! I love it. These people adopted the name for themselves, apparently unawares. Then they tried to change it to tea partiers, but the damage is done. I will forever call them teabaggers, and it will forever be funny. Just like Larry Craig jokes will forever be funny.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>Worth noting that if I weren't the sort to immediately hang up on poll takers, I would put myself in the "disapprove" column for Pres. O. This for failure to marginalize his opponents when their game plan became obvious, and for ceding too much power to the Goldman Sachs branch of the government.<< It's getting better. Hang in there.
