Has this Republican primary season been entertaining, embarrassing, or both?

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Obama's negatives never went through the roof like Romney's. Even Clinton's unfavorable spike was modest compared to Romney.

The Dem primary was civil compared to this charade.

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Obama's negatives never went through the roof like Romney's. Even Clinton's unfavorable spike was modest compared to Romney.

The Dem primary was civil compared to this charade.

What are Romney's negatives.

Please, this isn't any worse than 2008.

It isn't worse than 2008 if you're in denial, I suppose. It's on par with 1996.

Romney suffers a net -13 in his favorables.
http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/contest/us-favorability-romney

Compared to Obama of around the same time:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/obama_favorableunfavorable-643.html#polls
+7

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Obama's negatives never went through the roof like Romney's. Even Clinton's unfavorable spike was modest compared to Romney.

The Dem primary was civil compared to this charade.

What are Romney's negatives.

Please, this isn't any worse than 2008.

It isn't worse than 2008 if you're in denial, I suppose. It's on par with 1996.

Romney suffers a net -13 in his favorables.
http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/contest/us-favorability-romney

Compared to Obama of around the same time:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/obama_favorableunfavorable-643.html#polls
+7

You had McCain going up when the D race was going on in 2008. Right now, you are comparing Romney to President Obama, not candidate Obama in 2008.  


I doubt that this even close to what it was in 1976.

Oops, my bad.

http://www.pollingreport.com/obama_fav.htm

Scroll down and you'll find those 2008 numbers. He was boosting +25~30 around this time; even better.

Obama kept his favorables up against a long and drawn out primary fight with Clinton. He wasn't positive 100% of the time, and he wasn't gaffe free either, but he was able to keep his favorables up. Romney's have tanked and have stayed down. This is not 2008. You evidently are hoping that this primary will produce a stronger candidate in Romney like the long primary did in Obama, but Romney is getting bruised.

Funny how you call Obama's approvals (which are in the MoE and are roughly tied on the whole), as pretty "grim." But Romney's bloody primary fight sinking his favorables? Obviously making him stronger.

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

I agree J.J. Obama's surroundings are much less favorable than in 2008. He's not a new kid running for president who has anything working in his favor due to a 25% approval rating for Bush. He's now the president and must answer for things like gas prices and unemployment.

Gas prices are based on the price of a barrel of oil which is determined on the international market. Even if Obama significantly ramped up domestic production it wouldn't make a drop in the bucket. Unless you're proposing withdrawing from the international market and producing our own gasoline entirely priced on an internal market, which would make the supply shortages of 1973 seem like happy days.

UE is trending down, the job market has been producing in excess of 150k a month, and GDP growth for the last quarter was 3%, which is considered historically to be a strong average.

He'll answer for those all right.

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Oops, my bad.

http://www.pollingreport.com/obama_fav.htm

Scroll down and you'll find those 2008 numbers. He was boosting +25~30 around this time; even better.

Obama kept his favorables up against a long and drawn out primary fight with Clinton. He wasn't positive 100% of the time, and he wasn't gaffe free either, but he was able to keep his favorables up. Romney's have tanked and have stayed down. This is not 2008. You evidently are hoping that this primary will produce a stronger candidate in Romney like the long primary did in Obama, but Romney is getting bruised.

Funny how you call Obama's approvals (which are in the MoE and are roughly tied on the whole), as pretty "grim." But Romney's bloody primary fight sinking his favorables? Obviously making him stronger.

Obama's unfavorables went up.  The earlier increase in favorables was basically getting exposier.  And yes, for an incumbent president, Obama's numbers are starting to get grim.

Yeah, they went up after he had been serving in the office. Take a close look at that chart. You want to look for the dates that end in 07/08. You'll notice that despite the long campaign, they stayed relatively stable and did not plummet like Romney's.