Obama's approval numbers are definitely on the rise. Approval numbers are one thing. Vote count is often, quite anything matter.

We do not believe that reporting on the daily fluctuations of a running approval poll is of any serious benefit. As the reader may know, rather than give a daily accounting, we have moved to presenting a seven day average. We use the very well respected Rasmussen poll.

In that poll, as of today, Obama's approval number for the day is 52%, the highest single day number in more than a year and half. The seven day average is the number that marks out the presidential trend. And in the case of the Barack circumstance, the most recent seven day average (including today's numbers) stands at an even 50%, again, the highest average in well over a year. But let's put Obama's numbers into a real-time context, shall we?

Understand that approval numbers for congress after the New GOP victory in November have improved, as well. Also, the GOP leads Democrats in all 10 categories of congressional responsibilities, another long time first. Speaker Boehner has higher numbers than Nancy Pelosi and 53% of the population (likely voters) want ObamaCare repealed. When we talk about improving polling numbers, the GOP is as much a benefactor as is Obama.

It is a historical fact that the general populace always wants to believe in the president. When that does not happen, it is the exception rather than the rule.

Also, know that Obama's numbers have been effected by few factors: he and his party lost the midterms big time. Since then, Obama has been busy throwing people off the bus as fast as he can. His compromise with the GOP on tax reform worked well for him within the general population, but not at all with the Left Wing. They do not like the New Obama. Besides that ( the tax compromise with the Republicans) he has done nothing but talk and there has been little of that. The Tucson memorial speech was a big hit, even with Midknight Review (and we are talking about the speech, itself; nothing more). In summary, then, his numbers are up on the strength of a single piece of legislative compromise and one really good speech.

In other words, his approval numbers are on the rise when he sits and does next to nothing -- a slight overstatement, we know, but that is our story and we are sticking to it. Let's see what happens when he gets back to circumventing congress and installing his agenda without regard to the will of the people or their elected officials. Understand that that tactic will blow up in his face, if, indeed, he decides to go there. We are about to see just how committed he really is. He was willing to sell his party down the drain for the sake of his agenda. Is he willing to put is personal political survival on the line, as well , or will he choose the coward's way out and coast through the next two years?
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