The Official Obama Approval Ratings Thread

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Moderates love the Arizona immigration law.  check out the polls.

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Democracy Corps (D)

approval/disapproval: 47/47, 46/49 among likely voters

Fox News/Opinion Dynamics:

45/46

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Obama: 32/67 in Arkansas

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Gallup: 48/45

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Gallup: 45/49

It's fair to say that Rasmussen is no longer an outlier in terms of obama's approval ratings.

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Gallup 45/48

Obama's approval among whites is 34%.

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http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Approval-Center.aspx

Let's just say that Gallup is a pretty favorable poll for Obama in the sense that it polls a ton of minorities.  The white vote more than likely isn't 70% of the sample in Gallup.

I cannot wait to watch Pbrower scream racisim when Palin is running up to 60% of the white vote on election day in 2012.

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Gallup was well-off in 2008 because it was too favorable to Obama.

yes, it could be off but it wouldn't be off in a way that is too unfavorable to Obama.

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Gallup: 43/48

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Gallup: 43/49

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Huh?  Gallup is pretty solid but it wouldn't be overly harsh of Obama.

If anything, Gallup is overly favorable for Obama.

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Gallup: 43/49

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Gallup: 44/49

It has been more stable than Rasmussen recently.

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Even the Washington Post/ABC News has him at 46/52 now!

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NBC/WSJ: 45/49

Favorable/unfavorable: 46/41

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Gallup: 45/48
Rasmussen: 45/54

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Actually, I'd regard Pbrower as less of a hack as some of the Republicans here.

At least his viewpoint makes sense.  His belief is that Obama will get 10% more than his approval rating.  The logic is that some of those who disapprove of Obama are left-leaning indies who would vote for him anyway when the opponent is a Republican.

I disagree with the logic but it's still logic.  Pbrower may be an out of touch extreme liberal but he's not a hack.

Now, some of the "fiscally conservative"/Northeastern Republicans here are total hacks.

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Gallup: 44/49

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CNN: 42/56

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Gallup: 45/49

Watch him plunge tomorrow on Rasmussen and such a plunge will render this discussion moot.

Ras is sucking in Pbrower just to break his heart.

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I love how Rasmussen broke Pbrower's heart.  Way to go Ras!

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His "personal approval" is not over 50%.

And asking for his "personal approval" after asking about his approval rating is misleading.  You are essentially prompting people to make a different response and treat "persoanl approval" as different from "approval."

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Whatever you call it, he's not at 50% as you claimed if you look at averages.  You have huge disparities in favorability but since averages are the chic thing to do, we might as well look at averages.

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The number you saw comes from either AP, Bloomberg, or Battleground.  Those pollsters are pretty hawkish on the difference between favorability and approval.

Every other poll, such as Rasmussen, Democracy Corps(D), NBC/WSJ, doesn't find that much difference between the ratings as do the three aforementioned pollsters.

But I still contend that asking about favorability after asking about approval is a prompt to respondents to answer the question differently.

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I understand there's a difference but the way it's asked about in polls seems to create that distinction.
I think it's hard to poll both questions in the same poll.  Doing so creates a prompt in my opinion.