Two-thirds of likely voters say President Obama has kept his 2008 campaign promise to change America — but it’s changed for the worse, according to a sizable majority. A new poll for The Hill found 56 percent of likely voters believe Obama’s first term has transformed the nation in a negative way, compared to 35 percent who believe the country has changed for the better under his leadership. – The Hill Poll: Majority of voters believe Obama has changed country for worse
CONSERVATIVE BLOGGERS loved this poll today, just look at the swarm around it via Memeorandum. Voters think Pres. Obama has changed American for the worst! Woo-hoo! Now, I’m no polling expert, which is one reason I rarely offer polling, except to point out specific issues as a snapshot in time. But when I saw yet another poll from The Hill by Pulse Opinion Research, at the very least it required a few links.
Right-wingers probably liked this poll from The Hill, too: Hill Poll: Voters: Obama over-reached blocking ‘Fast and Furious’ docs.
This one as well: The Hill Poll: Voter gloom over President Obama’s jobs, gas, debt policies.
It’s as easy as entering your credit card. To quote an article on Frum Forum, “Rasmussen’s Newest Venture Could Change Bar Fights Forever.”
“Soon, anyone can go to the [Pulse] website, type in their credit card number, and run any poll that they wanted, with any language that they want,” said Rasmussen. “In effect, you will be able to do your own poll, and Rasmussen will provide the platform to ensure that the polling includes a representative national sample.”
If it all sounds a little suspect to you, wait until you read Mark Blumenthal, who has analyzed Rasmussen polls before, finding that Pres. Obama’s approvals are usually lower in all of their polling, “though not the lowest.” Well, that’s something.
Perhaps the Pulse Opinion Research polling for The Hill all being negative towards Pres. Obama is simply reality, because the economy isn’t doing what it should and people are freaked, with Obama getting the blame.
I’ve written for The Hill, so I assure you it’s not all one-sided over there.
But as far as I’m concerned these polls by Pulse Opinion Research in The Hill are as important as the Frum Forum headline; good for solving bar fights, but not much else.
I did my own unscientific poll:
25& thought Obama had done a great job.
25& thought he had done a good job.
25% thought he had done an awful job.
25% were not sure.
Of the 25% who thought he had done a great job, 15% were bankers, 7% were military contractors, 2 percent were gun makers and 1% were, well, the 1%.
Of the 25% who thought he had done a good job, 15 % were auto workers and ten percent were gay auto workers.
Of the 25% who thought he had done an awful job, 5% were birthers, 5% were illegal immigrants, 5% were people without heating oil assistance, 5% were women who were screwed by his caving to republican women haters, and 5% were people who suddenly realized he had created a police state.
Of the 25% who were not sure, 5% did not know who he was, 5% knew who he was but thought it was a bad dream because the president could not possibly be black, 5% thought he was a visiting dignitary from Kenya, 5% thought he was a Muslim and could not see that as being a good thing, and 5% did not like his dog which they thought looked and acted a little gay.
fangio-Funny..and that is about how ridiculous I think the polls are. On the news this morning they were quoting the poll that has Mittens and Obambi tied at 47% nationwide.
But honestly the only poll that matters is the one in November and as the song says, “It’s a long, long way…”
I do have to scoff at a clip I saw of Obama trashing the other side for how much money they are spending, as if the $70 Million his campaign just raised is pocket change. $100 million versus $70 Million..yes, Obama needs to hit the streets begging alright….
Good grief. People complain about welfare recipients feeding off of government money. Well, IMHO, there is no more unwholesome, and immoral use of money than donating it to the Democrats or Republicans for campaigning.
The amount of money that goes into staging campaigns while many people are going without food and/or medical care is downright obscene.
This is not going to be 2008, its proberly going to be a close election. The latest ABC/Washington post poll have both Romney and Obama tied at 47%, this was on the front page of yahoo. Obama raised over 70 million in June while Romney raised over 100 million. This is really messed up to throw all this money into a election.
All the Beltway pundits are all atwitter over how the Bain Capital ads in the battleground states are defining Romney among blue collar white workers and how these ads are responsible for the growing lead of Obama over Romney in the swing states. Partially true but what is more effectively explaining the growing lead by Obama in the battleground statges are the Obama campaign ads against Romney among women voters and the growing gender gap in the swing states.
These ads clearly articulate Romney’s support of misogynist views on women. He is for the repeal of Roe vs Wade, refuses to endorse the Lilly Ledbetter Equal Pay for Women Act passed by a Democratic Congress. Endorses the Catholic Bishops call for the repeal on the free contraception benefit in the ACA. Endorses the mandatory untrasound and vaginal probes of pregnant women before deciding on whether to have an abotion and his statement that he will defund Planned Parenthood on ‘day one’.
While Obama is outspending the GOP Super Pacs in the swing states, Romney is on vacation, raising money and planning on how the GOP Super Pacs will spend their fortune in the general election campaign. By then it may be too late, the Obama campaign will have defined Romney before the national conventions.
I’m sure that if your post had been just a LITTLE longer, you would have given us one reason to vote for Obama to go along with your half-dozen reasons to vote against Romney.
You clearly haven’t been paying attention. I don’t know any regular poster here who plans to vote for Romney. We don’t need to be educated on what a lousy candidate he is. Your problem with us is that we won’t be blackmailed into buying the argument that Obama is the only alternative.
Now, if you can comprehend and understand this post, maybe what you noted later is true- you DO learn something new every day.
You learn something new everyday. Richard Todd explained why the Obama campaign is outspending the Romney campaign in the battle ground states. Political campaign donations for the general election cannot be used until a candidate has been nominated at the national conventions. Romney exhausted t his primary campaign donations in winning the Republican nomination. Obama didn’t have a primary opponent and is using his unspent primary campaign donations in successfully raising Romney’s unfavorables in the battleground states with Bain Capital and Romney’s War on Women issue ads.
Political campaign donations for the general election cannot be used until a candidate has been nominated at the national conventions.
That’s under the pre-Citizens United rules, involving matching funds. Neither Obama nor Romney will adhere to the old system (Obama was the first to forgo matching funds, in 2008, and that policy will clearly become standard for the two major parties now) so those restrictions no longer apply.