Rasmussen Tracking Poll [Obama vs McCain]

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Probably an outlier

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The trackers just don't seem to agree with the other national polls, as well as the state polls. Hmm.

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Thursday - October 30:

Obama 51 (+1)
McCain 46 (-1)

Within their own party, both candidates lead by identical 86% to 12% margins while Obama has a six-point advantage among unaffiliated voters.

Obama is now viewed favorably by 56% of voters nationwide, McCain by 54%.

Additional state polling will be released today including the Senate races in Kentucky and North Carolina. Presidential polls will be released for Indiana, Montana and other states.

That's a bit of a relief.

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Gallup and Scott are in two very different places.

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Okay. Good.

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How is there a "Presidential Approval rating" for Obama when he isn't even President...

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Clinton bounce!

Clinton/Gates bounce. I'm sure that keeping Gates on won the hearts of some Rethugs.

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Time to start the 2012 50 state polling! I want to see how amusing the maps would look right now.

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It's interesting to see that there is little difference between Illinois and these other states.

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Georgia (Dec. 8 ):

69% Approve
28% Disapprove

Wow.

Don't ask me why he get's higher approvals in a state that was 12% more GOP.

Maybe some moderate Republicans are approving now.

The GA result doesn't make much sense but if it's actually accurate... maybe he should have campaigned for Martin.

Then again, maybe part of the reason he's so popular now is because he didn't.

Poor Martin.

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A 50-state hypothetical 2012 Obama vs. Palin map would be hilarious right now.

Indeed. I hope we start getting some of those as soon as he takes office, if only for amusement purposes.

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Probably finally feeling the Blagojevich effect now.

Today's results suggest that it was probably just noise.

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Per CNN poll:

82% Approve
15% Disapprove

"Barack Obama is having a better honeymoon with the American public than any incoming president in the past three decades. He's putting up better numbers, usually by double digits, than Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, or either George Bush on every item traditionally measured in transition polls," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

The poll also suggests that the public approves of the President-elect's cabinet nominees, with 56 percent of those questioned saying Obama's appointments have been outstanding or above average, with 32 percent feeling the picks have been average, and 11 percent saying Obama's choices have been below average or poor.

That 56 percent figure is 18 points higher than those who said then President-elect Bush's cabinet appointments were outstanding or above average and 26 points higher than those who felt the same way about then President-elect Clinton's nominees.

The CNN/Opinion Research poll was conducted Friday through Sunday, with 1,013 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/24/cnn-poll-obama-transition-draws-approval-of-4-in-5-americans/#more-33485

God damn. A very merry Christmas for a black man.

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I wonder what Free Republic's take on this poll was... lol

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Is Barack Obama the most popular black man in the history of the United States?

who disapproves of Wayne Brady?

Me

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They'll probably shoot back up after the inauguration.

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Sky High

He's officially in office now, so it's time to bring on the 2012 polling, if only for laughs.

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I demand more updates from Mr. Branson!

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I demand more updates from Mr. Branson!

Updated it in the 2012 section ...

I see.