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« on: December 24, 2014, 02:43:20 AM »

Tuesday's CNN/ORC poll showed for the first time in seven years, a majority of Americans — 51% — have a positive view of the economy, a sharp increase from the 38% who felt that way in October.

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More Americans still disapprove of the job Obama is doing as President. But at 48%, Obama's approval rating is at its highest point in CNN polling since May 2013.

The gains were driven by newfound backing among women, independents and millennials — groups where Obama's approval numbers jumped 10 percentage points from a month ago.

Meanwhile, Obama's approval numbers ticked down among men, Republicans and Americans between 35 and 49 years old.

The approval jump follows a late-quarter jolt in Obama's governing agenda, which gained momentum after unilateral actions on immigration and relations with Cuba. Separate surveys have showed those moves popular among the American people.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/23/politics/obama-approval-rating/index.html

NBC/WSJ, Gallup and Rasmussen have found similar numbers recently.
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« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2014, 02:47:38 AM »

Wonderful news! Look like the 2016 Democratic Wave is building early!
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« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2014, 02:59:45 AM »

The media had no need to act like the economy was doing badly once the Republicans won the midterms.
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« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2014, 03:18:54 AM »

I'm sure low gas prices haven't hurt.
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« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2014, 04:13:13 AM »

It's better not to focus on individual polls, but rather the average. Throughout the entire year of 2014 on RCP, Obama never went under 41% or over 44%. Hopefully this is the start of a counter trend though.
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« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2014, 06:43:47 AM »

Of course Americans see the light only after forcing themselves into at least 6 years of Republican Congressional dominance.
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« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2014, 08:00:13 AM »

Of course Americans see the light only after forcing themselves into at least 6 years of Republican Congressional dominance.

Just imagine what they'd be saying right now had Romney won in 2012..
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« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2014, 10:34:18 AM »

Of course Americans see the light only after forcing themselves into at least 6 years of Republican Congressional dominance.

Just imagine what they'd be saying right now had Romney won in 2012..

Oh God, Romney and allies would be positively insufferable.

Obama deserves massive credit for the stimulus law. If we had gone the Republican austerity approach—which we wouldn't have, because a Republican President + Republican Congress would have gone full-blown Keynesian more than Obama's stimulus if they were in charge—we'd be in as bad shape as Japan or the EU. This recovery was always going to be slow to recover the ground we lost and now that we've reached our goal, I hope this is remembered as Obama's legacy.
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« Reply #8 on: December 24, 2014, 11:21:04 AM »

Obama's been essentially perfect since the election. So he gets a boost. Simple as that.
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« Reply #9 on: December 24, 2014, 12:27:15 PM »
« Edited: December 24, 2014, 12:28:50 PM by SilentCal1924 »

This is good news if the economy continues humming but doesn't expand at the rate it did during Clinton's tenure. If the Republicans win in 2016 (God willing, over the forces of the nefarious Left), we can reap the benefits of an expanding economy in 2017 and crush the remaining Democratic liberal Senators in 2018. 
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« Reply #10 on: December 24, 2014, 12:34:31 PM »

This is good news if the economy continues humming but doesn't expand at the rate it did during Clinton's tenure. If the Republicans win in 2016 (God willing, over the forces of the nefarious Left), we can reap the benefits of an expanding economy in 2017 and crush the remaining Democratic liberal Senators in 2018. 
If you win in 2016, there is no way 2018 would be a republican year. A neutral year, at best.
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« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2014, 12:35:52 PM »

This is good news if the economy continues humming but doesn't expand at the rate it did during Clinton's tenure. If the Republicans win in 2016 (God willing, over the forces of the nefarious Left), we can reap the benefits of an expanding economy in 2017 and crush the remaining Democratic liberal Senators in 2018. 
If you win in 2016, there is no way 2018 would be a republican year. A neutral year, at best.

Most of the remaining Democratic incumbents are up that year - the winners of the 2012 cycle. A great economy would boost the GOP significantly as the GOP would become the incumbent party.
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« Reply #12 on: December 24, 2014, 12:36:53 PM »

This is good news if the economy continues humming but doesn't expand at the rate it did during Clinton's tenure. If the Republicans win in 2016 (God willing, over the forces of the nefarious Left), we can reap the benefits of an expanding economy in 2017 and crush the remaining Democratic liberal Senators in 2018. 
If you win in 2016, there is no way 2018 would be a republican year. A neutral year, at best.

That's probably true, but there's definitely not much room for Democrat gains in either case.
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« Reply #13 on: December 24, 2014, 12:38:06 PM »

The American people are already enthused at the idea of Majority Leader McConnell! Merry Christmas, patriots!
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« Reply #14 on: December 24, 2014, 12:39:14 PM »

The American people are already enthused at the idea of Majority Leader McConnell! Merry Christmas, patriots!

And Speaker John Boehner! And Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy! And our brand new spanking 31 Governors.
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« Reply #15 on: December 24, 2014, 12:43:33 PM »

So, the idea is the GOP should benefit from work they didn't do? Of course, that's how they always operate. Bush took credit for Clinton's work.

And considering that McConnell and Boehner's approval is very low, I hardly think anyone but a few extreme partisans is enthused about them.
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« Reply #16 on: December 24, 2014, 12:51:06 PM »

The president's party always get's credit or blame for the economy.  Democrats held both houses of congress when the economy crashed in 2008, but Bush got all of the blame.  Obama got the blame for the poor economy throughout his tenure despite Republicans controlling the House for most of it.
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« Reply #17 on: December 24, 2014, 12:54:10 PM »

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/23/now-that-the-dow-has-hit-18000-let-us-remember-the-worst-op-ed-in-history/?tid=sm_fb
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« Reply #18 on: December 24, 2014, 01:05:15 PM »

This is good news if the economy continues humming but doesn't expand at the rate it did during Clinton's tenure. If the Republicans win in 2016 (God willing, over the forces of the nefarious Left), we can reap the benefits of an expanding economy in 2017 and crush the remaining Democratic liberal Senators in 2018. 
If you win in 2016, there is no way 2018 would be a republican year. A neutral year, at best.

That's probably true, but there's definitely not much room for Democrat gains in either case.
Indeed.
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« Reply #19 on: December 24, 2014, 01:09:08 PM »

So, the idea is the GOP should benefit from work they didn't do? Of course, that's how they always operate. Bush took credit for Clinton's work.

And considering that McConnell and Boehner's approval is very low, I hardly think anyone but a few extreme partisans is enthused about them.

That's politics. The economy was recovering under George H.W. Bush - but Clinton won anyway. His influence on the U.S. economy was marginal, but that didn't stop him from claiming all the credit. More credit went to the Reagan deregulation and business adjustments in the 1980s and the (conervative) Federal Reserve headed by (Republican) Alan Greenspan and the tech boom of the 1990s.

That said, I don't care particularly if Obama is responsible, as long as we take the credit, of course. As a Republican partisan, if the stars work out (and why not? The economic recovery is nothing like the Clinton boom of the late 1990s or the Reagan economic expansion of the 1980s), and we win the Presidency, the strengthening economy expands the GOP's menu of options to exercise our power.

Drastically downsize the welfare state, put Kennedy's replacement on the Supreme Court, gut the budget, and put in the 20 week abortion ban law - a strong economy can blunt the effects in 2018.
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« Reply #20 on: December 24, 2014, 01:55:36 PM »

What else would you expect from an economic advisor to a Republican president? The Republicans are spectacular salesmen. They can message and obfuscate and run circles around the Democrats and do it all in the commoners' vulgar tongue. But if you want results, you have to vote for the Democrats.
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« Reply #21 on: December 24, 2014, 03:49:10 PM »

So, the idea is the GOP should benefit from work they didn't do? Of course, that's how they always operate. Bush took credit for Clinton's work.

And considering that McConnell and Boehner's approval is very low, I hardly think anyone but a few extreme partisans is enthused about them.

That's politics. The economy was recovering under George H.W. Bush - but Clinton won anyway. His influence on the U.S. economy was marginal, but that didn't stop him from claiming all the credit. More credit went to the Reagan deregulation and business adjustments in the 1980s and the (conervative) Federal Reserve headed by (Republican) Alan Greenspan and the tech boom of the 1990s.

That said, I don't care particularly if Obama is responsible, as long as we take the credit, of course. As a Republican partisan, if the stars work out (and why not? The economic recovery is nothing like the Clinton boom of the late 1990s or the Reagan economic expansion of the 1980s), and we win the Presidency, the strengthening economy expands the GOP's menu of options to exercise our power.

Drastically downsize the welfare state, put Kennedy's replacement on the Supreme Court, gut the budget, and put in the 20 week abortion ban law - a strong economy can blunt the effects in 2018.

But, that's a direct contradiction of the Republican ranting that Obama wrecked the economy. It's incredibly dishonest and little silly to even try to claim credit, but that's the Republican Party for you.
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« Reply #22 on: December 24, 2014, 04:00:34 PM »

SilentCal's post is indicative of the utter horribleness of the Republican Party: spend six years obstructing and slowing down our growth through government shutdowns, and then try and take credit for Obama's economic boom.
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« Reply #23 on: December 24, 2014, 04:17:40 PM »

Of course people approve of Obama. They just don't bother to go to vote when his name isn't on the ballot.
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« Reply #24 on: December 24, 2014, 07:28:57 PM »

This is good news if the economy continues humming but doesn't expand at the rate it did during Clinton's tenure. If the Republicans win in 2016 (God willing, over the forces of the nefarious Left), we can reap the benefits of an expanding economy in 2017 and crush the remaining Democratic liberal Senators in 2018. 

Republicans would likely do what they usually do when they have full power -- bungle the economy so badly that they throw away what they consider a permanent advantage.
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