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jnik23260 said, 3 months ago
He’s doing that onhjs own!
ConserveGov said, 3 months ago
Gallup says Barry’s approval rating is only 46% now.
Not even half of the “political climate” agrees with him.
Xabulba said, 3 months ago
You mean the same polls that put Romney & points ahead of Obama say his approval rating is down.
Radish
said, 3 months ago
A Washington Post-ABC News/Washington poll last month found that 67 percent of Americans say that Republicans are doing “too little” to work with Obama.
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The survey gave Republicans in Congress an approval rating of 24 percent, compared to a 37 percent rating for Democrats. Obama’s approval recently hit a four-year high of 60 percent.
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Eric Cantor, the often combative second-ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, sought on Tuesday to rebrand himself and his party…
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/06/us-usa-congress-cantor-idUSBRE91412A20130206
Robert Landers said, 3 months ago
@ConserveGov
And the Republican/ tea party misled House of Representatives of the Congress has a current approval rating of less than 10%. Which gives President Obama just about five times the approval rating of his intractable opponents!!
ne7minder55 said, 3 months ago
Guys! Please do not try to confuse the poor conservatives with facts from the real world. Conservatives have their own set of “facts” that they get from their masters every day and it is very upsetting to them when their dim view of the world is disrupted by reality.
The more they cling to their “facts” the more normal people seem them for the fools, conmen and lairs that they are. They are building a Democratic super majority for the country.
Gary Kleppe said, 3 months ago
Wingnuts don’t need those silly voters. They’ll just disenfranchise the bulk of them and then herd the rest into ridiculously gerrymandered districts.
Kylie2112 said, 3 months ago
Scumbag Elephant meme:
“We’ll have a laser-like focus on jobs!”
Spends entire congressional sessions on trying to repeal the ACA and trying to ban abortions.
motivemagus said, 3 months ago
From “Politicians see voters as more conservative than they actually are” in Salon.com: “We see further evidence of elite misperceptions from a fascinating new study by David Broockman and Christopher Skovron. They conducted a survey in 2012 of thousands of state legislative candidates, asking them what they thought their constituents believed about such issues as same sex marriage and health care reform. Then they used a survey to determine constituent opinion on these same issues. What they found was that the politicians systematically misperceived their constituents’ views, believing them to be roughly ten points more conservative on both issues than they actually were. The effect was bigger for conservative candidates but still true for liberal ones.”
Here is the study referenced: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/csdi/miller-stokes/08_MillerStokes_BroockmanSkovron.pdf
ansonia
said, 3 months ago
Polls that show Obama’s ratings high prove one thing: Obama has been successful in staying detached from governing and leading this country. His “I’m campaigning against everything bad and none of my bad policies are my fault” approach has worked.
Because all the polls show that the majority do not like the direction in which the country is going.
Omnius said, 3 months ago
Toles always knows how to depict the arrogant, ignorant republicans. So funny how the tea party is misleading the republicans down the path that leads to extinction and neither has a clue they’re on their own highway to hell.
ansonia
said, 3 months ago
@Kylie2112
Please show us where any elephant spent an entire congressional session trying to ban abortions. But you are living in the past.
BTW, the ACA is going to bankrupt us.
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But let’s talk about your man, Obama. He’s running the show now. What’s HE done in the way of jobs.
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Let’s see…..
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In his State of the Union speech to Democrats, Obama promised that after 4 years of historically weak economic growth and an unemployment rate that’s been stuck at or near 8% since he took office, he’s going to turn his attention to job growth.
But he’s made the same promise many times over the past 4 years.
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So many times, in fact, that even the Obama-loving Huffington Post at one point put together a mocking “Pivot to Jobs Deja Vu” reel.
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Here’s just a sampling from Obama’s first term:
• January 2009: “My economic agenda … begins with jobs.”
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• November 2009: “This is my administration’s overriding focus.”
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• January 2010: “We are going to have a sustained and relentless focus over the next several months on accelerating the pace of job creation, because that’s priority No. 1.”
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• September 2010: “Our No. 1 focus has to be jobs, jobs, jobs.”
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• December 2010: “My singular focus over the next two years is … jump-starting the economy so that we actually start making a dent in the unemployment rate.”
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• January 2011: “My principal focus, my No. 1 focus, is going be making sure that we are … creating jobs not just now but well into the future.”
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• November 2012: “Our top priority has to be jobs and growth.”
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[His] policies have already produced the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression. In fact, had Obama’s recovery been merely average, the GDP would be $1.2 trillion bigger today, and there’d be 7.5 million more people with jobs.
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Under Obama, middle-class families have seen their incomes decline. Millions have fallen into poverty. The income gap is widening.
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Investors.com http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/020813-643803-obama-recycles-same-jobs-promise-same-policies.htm#ixzz2Mlqglxtg
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ansonia
said, 3 months ago
@Omnius
Where are you getting all this negative stuff about what the Tea Party is doing?
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How is the Tea Party “misleading” Republicans?
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If what you say is true, why are you saying it with rancor? Being a Liberal and/or Democrat, wouldn’t that be something that would make you happy?
masterskrain said, 3 months ago
My feelings about “Polls” or “Surveys” is the same as a character said in an article in “MAD” Magazine almost 50 years ago!
“Give me enough numbers, and enough statistics, and I can PROVE that Rhode Island is bigger then Texas!”
motivemagus said, 3 months ago
@HOWGOZIT
Nonsense. Far to the left is Hugo Chavez — and even he was not as far to the left as he could have been as he engaged with businesses. What passes for “left” in this country is moderate.
Having said that, when you actually poll people on specific proposals, turns out a lot of them — Republicans AND Democrats — want the Progressive proposals! See this article in, of all things, Business Insider:
http://www.businessinsider.com/sequester-poll-replacement-bill-plans-obama-republicans-2013-2