Gallup Polling is caught between what its thousands of interviews say about Barack Obama’s reelection chances and what it longs for the facts to be.
They do their best to hide the truth with suspiciously timed releases and obfuscating language. Nevertheless, embedded in its latest report on voter attitudes, Gallup’s delivers more bad news for Obama. Try as it did to put a happy face on the dangerously low level of “satisfaction” in the electorate, Gallup can’t do much with a 22% rate. Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Ronald Reagan all had more than 41% rates on their way to reelection, but George H.W. Bush was at 22% in 1992 when he lost to Clinton.
Voters’ sentiment on the economy shows more weakness for Obama with 56% saying it is getting worse while just 38% see it getting better. This -25 in Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index compares too favorably to Bush senior’s -31 during June of 1992 to provide any real encouragement for Obama.
Gallup’s attempt to talk up the improvement in the unemployment rate as reported last week (8.3%) runs into a serious problem since for the least two years Gallup has been saying the real rate (8.6%) is higher than being reported. When the underemployed numbers (18.7%) are included things get still worse for Obama.
The current 71% of Americans with economic matters on their minds is reminiscent of Bush senior’s ill-fated reelection campaign 20 years ago.
Rasmussen’s numbers
The Rasmussen Report shows us the sour attitudes of “uncommitted” voters which carries a subsurface problem not being focused on by many analysts. The sample is small (only 12%) but the trend is clear: just 20% of these likely voters approve of Obama’s job performance.
This 12% “uncommitted” could mean 88% of voters have already made a decision. With the enthusiasm rates among Democrats as low as they are a recovery by Obama looks less likely by the month.
Note: neither of these reports was completed before the showdown with the Catholic Church over the issue of forcing faith based institutions to offer abortion services as part of their employee health insurance plans.
If Obama is on track for reelection, there is little evidence to support it.
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Well, he just lost over 1/4 of the population of Catholics and Latino’s…with his attack on our Religious Freedoms!! His chances are growing weaker, and Santorium is overcoming romney’s lead, I don’t like either one as they are not conservatives, but he lessor evil than Romney or Gingrich! I’m afraid of Ron Paul, but still hoping he will get it! a true conservative! Against TSA and DHS and FED!!!
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I’d be willing to bet the media is lying.
Does anyone even read a newspaper or tune into broadcast news anymore? Most folks I know dont.
Liars Liars dem pants should be on fire! The general media sucks hind tit! We should contract PRAVDA for our own news reporting! At least this would be a know and a given instead of guessing what is it today truth or dumba$$ lies!
Nobody in their right mind would vote for Barrack Obama again. That’s like asking to be kicked in the head twice. Please people DO NOT VOTE FOR A FRAUD TWICE. If you are thinking about it, please get some brain therapy
You go lady and tell it like it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate to say this but there is going to be a lot of people not in their right minds.
This man who goes by the name obambeee is by far the biggest hypocrit ever to step foot in our White House,and would do us all a favor and just walk back words and go back to Kenya.Now it,s ok for abortion ,but when he was campaining ohhhhh no no way,he can not make up his mind about anything except what he,s told to do from George Soros.I would like to ask him why he did not abort his two children to save them from being associated with him and now they have to go through life as children of the worst usurper to invade the U.S.A..An.yway I think the media has finally run out of excuses and are having to tell the truth,because the numbers don,t lie
The only shape Obama is in is OUT of shape. The media is not only lying…again, but they are lying ALL the time. Not a hard question to answer. How about a hard ball question once in a while Western Center for Journalism. Need to exercise the brain muscles here.
Why should anyone believe the liberally biased mainstream drive-by media? These are the same people who back in elections 2000 declared repeatedly that Al Gore was destined to become our next President yet, as history proved, every time the votes were counted and recounted it so happened that Bush won. Rush Limbaugh has mentioned on more than one occasion that candidates who reflect conservatism are the ones who win when every time when given the chance. Santorum is our last remaining conservative in the field, which is why Rush recently endoesed him publicly. I would be delighted to see a Santorum-Rubio ticket to the rescuing of our American foundations and restoration as a nation.
Gallop Lies a lot.
Analogy, Old Pete was our childhood riding horse. When Old Pete got tired and mad, he would go into a fast gallop then head for the cloths-line. Yep, you either got off suddenly, or got hung with the line under the throat.
I didn’t like Old Pete.
I don’t like Gallop with their manufactured statistics.
Obama is increasingly creating pretext after pretext to incite crisis by illegally acting contrary to our Constitution and creating a situation where he can declare martial law and suspend the 2012 national elections!
WARNING! There is also increasing talk in many circles that IF he senses he will not be re-elected in November 2012, Obama will DECLARE WAR ON IRAN!
Psychological threat apart, that if you do not want America embroiled in another war
(to suit his ambition to remain in the Oval Office), then re-elect him – or else – it serves as an inducement and reaason for him to become a wartime president and expect the nationa to rally around him when he cancels elections.
His corrupt Chicago politics mentality knows no bounds and cares nothing about America other than as a trough at which he can feast high on the hog for free, no matter what it costs our nation.
In short the only job he cares about is his own!
You know, I can’t say I know what to expect from Obama other than there is a very high probability that when he announces an executive order it will probably be to do something unconstitutional. Technically, Obama cannot declar war. But he is doing a lot of things that are violations of our constitution.
One of the problems with the Constitution is that it doesn’t lay out what “high crimes and misdemeanors” are. However, this leaves it to the House to set the bar, and the Senate to decide if it has been crossed. But there is no direct penalty anywhere for the President doing anything unconstitutional. A penalty is only given if the president is impeached by the House, tried and found guilty in the Senate, and then they decide what the penalty should be.
I don’t think that we have to worry about Obama declaring war on Iran. Even if he orders some sort of military action, I don’t think it could possibly be sufficient to get him elected.
As I read this article, I see that the administration is pressuring the press not to report bad polls, but to report polling data in a way that will look good for Obama. It reminds me of what happened with Jimmy Carter. Polling what showing him down double digits, but he still pushed the press to report a much closer race. What happened is history.
As was reported in this morning’s news, the press is constantly lying for him. It turns out that these so-called wonderful unemployment numbers are not. In order to be able to report a drop in unemployment, they had to drop three and a half million from the rolls of the unemployed. What a way to run a country. If you don’t like the truth, find a way not to have to say it at all.
First off. I did not intend to report a user. I hit the wrong part as a mistake.
Obama isn’t the only one doing things that could question constitutionality. In my opinion, the NDAA recently signed by Obama and the Non Patriotic Patriot Act are a big step into running our Bill of Rights through the shredder. All one has to do is go back and look at who proposed them and voted for them. You will find that a large majority of Republicans as well as Democrats voted for them. I say that 2012 should be the year that no one gets reelected. We should fire them all.
Google: “The Bible and Ron Paul” 13 videos, 2 to 5 minutes each, showing how Ron Paul’s voting record, house bills, books and policies line up perfectly with the constitution and God’s Laws in the Bible for civil government. The nation that follows God’s Laws will be blessed, protected and prospered! I think of Ron Paul leading the followers of God out of bondage and tyranny, like a modern day Moses!
Where is my comment?
There is something really fishy going on with this website. Have you been infiltrated? I did not make a duplicate comment and my comment is not appearing.
All one has to do is look around and see the economy is in the tank. I sat in front of an Emloyment Dept representative and he told me flat out they did not record those who had quit looking for a job. So while the Government is telling those without jobs the unemployment rate is now 8.5 % the other 20% is not recorded. My area alone is experiencing over 25% unemployment with no end in sight.
Politicians are good at spending other peoples money but do not have a clue as to how to create jobs. It is time to throw all of the Washington Elites out and replace them with people with common sense.
Sorry to be a joy killer but he probably will do voters fraud. cause thats the only way he can win lie, cheat, and steal. Thee obama’s model.
As usual, the News Media LIES LIKE A RUG. They don’t know how to report the news any more, except to give us a one sided story about O B U M E R – - – - THE ANOINTED ONE – - – -..
Will be interesting to see how they, the news media, take the VOTE yesterday for Rick Santorum vs Romney.
Nay, I don’t think he is trying, if he is, shame on him. You can fool me once…shame on me….you can fool me twice…..shame on you. LOSER
The media has been lying through its teeth for a couple decades now, both the preponderant left wing media AND the less effective right wing media. Our middle class, what’s left of it, has been predictably gullible throughout. It would appear they are focused on Super Bowls more than what is happening to the country. We can turn things around if we get the November ballot challenge right. The Obama regime will be involved in massive voter fraud to hedge their chances. ACORN’s many remaining subparticle, slimy surrogates will be deep into such fraud. What the media should do, if it were not so contemptibly fraudulent itself, would be to shine some sunlight on such realities. Is the media hyping up Obama’s chances? Yes.
It is really bad news when you can not trust Gallop. I wonder how long they have been lying to us?
That’s all it is…………….one big pack of lies from the jackels media, to the jackels administration!!, this piece of garbage doesn’t deserve anything, except a one way ticket to china
Mr Indigestionman is back with ALL of his hatefull racism telling folks “Screw you”. WOW !!!! you actually do speak for o dont you.
HAHAHHA