President Obama's favorability rating is at an all-time high. Two-thirds feel hopeful about his leadership and six in 10 approve of the job he's doing in the White House.
"What is amazing here is how much political capital Obama has spent in the first six weeks," said Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who conducted this survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff. "And against that, he stands at the end of this six weeks with as much or more capital in the bank."
By comparison, the Republican Party — which resisted Obama's recently passed stimulus plan and has criticized the spending in his budget — finds its favorability at an all-time low. It also receives most of the blame for the current partisanship in Washington and trails the Democrats by nearly 30 percentage points on the question of which party could best lead the nation out of recession.
Poor Cerise, it must make you so frustrated to have Obama's approval growing while yourparty makes itself irrelevant.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 42% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Twenty-six percent (26%) Strongly Disapprove to give Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +16 (see trends). Democrats hold a two-point advantage on the Generic Congressional Ballot.
Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:32 PM The media may be smitten with President Barack Obama, but recent Gallup poll results show Americans giving the new president lower marks after one month in the White House than former President George W. Bush earned at the same point in his administration.
Heading into this week’s address to Congress, the Gallup figures showed 59 percent of Americans approved of Obama’s efforts so far, while 25 percent disapproved, and 16 percent had no opinion. According to PollingReport.com, President Bush had a 62 percent approval rating one month into his first term, with 21 percent disapproving, and 17 percent having no opinion.
um, popularity? please, spike, how about something of substance?
come on, it's been, what, five weeks since he took office, how come the economy is still bad?
its early yet. ted kennedy aint even sobered up from the inaugural ball
come on, it's been, what, five weeks since he took office, how come the economy is still bad?
President Obama said Tuesday that he is not intently focused on the “day-to-day gyrations of the stock market,” comparing the downward roller-coaster on Wall Street to the fickle nature of political polls.
“You know, it bobs up and down day to day,” Mr. Obama said. “And if you spend all your time worrying about that, then you’re probably going to get the long-term strategy wrong.”
But you promised us "plummetting faster than rosie odonell in a wave pool"? So either you're wrong or Rosie stays up for a long time.
http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=218315FLOWERY BRANCH - Flowery Branch City Manager Bill Andrew said Wednesday that from what he’s seen so far when it comes to getting federal stimulus funds cities have to be able to spend money to get the money.
Right now, Andrew said Flowery Branch does not have the money to spend to get projects eligible or "shovel ready," nor does the city have the money to pay back federal loans.
Andrew said state officials are telling him stimulus money is coming down the federal pipeline for loans, not grants.
“At least for our city we don’t see an avenue to access those funds without having to pay more money through a loan or otherwise, so we’re still waiting to see how all this is going to shake out,” Andrew said. “The shovel ready issue is important because governments as a whole tend not to have plans drawn without knowing you have funds to spend. Our revenues have been coming in historically low over the last year and we haven’t been moving forward on some of our engineering and we don’t have many if any projects ready for the shovel yet.”
Here's the actual numbers Cerise.
Heading into this week’s address to Congress, the Gallup figures showed 59 percent of Americans approved of Obama’s efforts so far....
Because Obozo wants it to be.
The market hasn't been bobbing up and down day to day since he was selected. It has been plummeting. It has collapsed nearly 30% since November, and nearly 20% since January.
Perhaps you should be looking at daily charts instead of quarterly or 1/2 yearly. Most stocks bob throughout a typical day..as does the DJIA.Half an up day does not a bob make.