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Pew Research is out with a new poll showing President Obama is leading by an impressive 10 point margin. According to the poll, it is 51 percent Obama compared to 41 percent Mitt Romney. This is a three point improvement since their last poll and the best performance for Obama since March.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the poll are the favorability numbers. Obama’s favorability rating is just barely net positive, 50 percent have a favorable view compared to 45 percent unfavorable. That is low by historic standards. Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush had higher ratings right before their re-election,
Yet the weakness of Obama’s favorability rating is nothing compared to the terrible shape Romney’s favorability rating is in. It is unbelievably bad with only 37 percent holding a favorable opinion of him compared to 52 percent who view him unfavorably. Every major candidate in the past six elections has had a substantially higher favorable number at this point in the election than Romney has now. From Pew:
While there is still plenty of time for public opinion to shift before the election, currently Romney has a serious image problem. Convincing a majority of people to vote for him is not going to be easy when a majority hold an unfavorable opinion of him.
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This year’s presidential campaign is starting to resemble the American League Central Division.
Public “opinion” is one thing.
It is based on conjecture and manipulated “news”, as well as blind “loyalty” and “self”-perception which “identifies” the many with the elite few who are, very often, sociopaths and wealthy beyond the understanding of the few.
“Public” understanding is something else, entirely.
IT would be asking WHY are “our” choices limited to only these two, equally destructive, “options”?
The honest answer might be more than slightly “revealing”.
Don’t you think?
DW
Election 2012: Poor vs. Comically Bad.
Ten years. No taxes.
Getting 100 bumperstickers printed and suggest everyone do the same. Hand ‘em out on street corners. Then march on the WH once this stinker Obama is back in. First things first, unfortunately.
I really hate the whole “favorability rating” phenomenon. It reminds me of a psychiatrist asking “how does that make you feel?”
Answer: It makes me feel like I should be drinking heavily, to numb the butt-clenching pain of this election.
Take the Pew poll with a large grain of salt, this source says:
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-stewartm
Missed you. Been on vacation?????
BRILLILANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m nominating you for the Thomas Paine Award
I think Romney’s 37% approval is the EXACT NUMBER OF PEOPLE in the country that DON’T HAVE A CLUE.
Which circle of hell is this?
Winning this election would be a relatively easy task for a halfway decent alternative to the incumbent from the other major party. Unemployment has been stuck above 8% for over three years and it just went up a tenth of a point to 8.3%. It would be easy if Romney wasn’t such a ridiculously horrible, untrustworthy candidate. Being stuck with O’Bomber for another term is a very depressing thought.
Great question! :D
When a people reduce themselves to a false “either …or” paradigm, then consciousness abdicates responsibility.
When “belief” trumps both experience and humanity, then transformative possibility becomes not only “dangerous” but “criminal” …
When “choice” is simply become the “freedom” to choose among poisons … then the earth will die.
A coherent vision of the present and of the future cannot be obtained by relying upon the “wisdom” and “vision” of those bemused by the quarterly “return”, and beholden to those whose depredation of civil society and the environment are subject neither to regulation nor fundamental question.
Between Romney and Obama, which of them understands ANY of this or has the courage to contemplate their obligation to any one but themselves and their personal “financial well being”?
DW
Prez Obama has beautiful children, not trustfund babies, let’s his dog ride inside the car; doesn’t prescribe to a wild religion; didn’t take a working class annual salary in write-offs to play horsey; pays his taxes; wrote books by himself; keeps his savings stateside; can play basketball; can speak coherent paragraphs; has a wife who plants a vegetable garden; provides for his mother-in-law.
What’s not to like?
Yes. Helping a friend move to his new school. To Harvard, of all places.
-stewartm