July 18, 2009
Overall
At least somewhat approve 51%
Disapprove 48%
Strongly approve 28%
Dems 58%
Strongly disapprove 36%
Reps 63%
Inds 43%
And where do you think it is going to go once he heads out of his office (again) to go “on vacation” in Martha’s Vineyard?
Some other tidbits.
Healthcare reform
Oppose in general 49%
At least somewhat favor 46%
Oppose creation of public insurance company 50%
Think reform will lead to middleclass tax hikes 78%
Approve of idea of taxing weathier Americans to finance reform 48%
Disappove 44%
Economy better on one year?
Stronger 45%
Weaker 36%
Here’s July 2nd: approval index minus 2
July 3, 2009
Why is it we keep hearing about how high barry is polling? This poll doesn’t back it nor do the last two by Rasmussen (-1,-2).
Strongly approve = 33%
Strongly disapprove = 35%
At least somewhat approve = 53%
Disapprove = 46%
Good or excellent on economy = 42%
Country heading in the right direction = 37%
One of the recovered missing posts
May 29-31
1015
+/- 3
Should Gitmo be closed?
No 65 -32
If closed, want them in your state?
No 74 – 23
Sounds strange but there are towns that have offered because there are no jobs in the area. Hardin, Montana (pop 3,400) has a completely stocked and functional $27-million detention facility that has never been used. City council 5-0 back a proposal to take Gitmo detainees – if it ever happens. Aren’t there pedophiles they could get off the streets and send there?
70% would be upset if barry went opposite their opinion.
Close and move some to prisons in US (yes/no)
DEM 53-42
IND 29 – 68
REP 9 – 91
What effect has Gitmo had on National Security?
Strengthened 40
DEM 22
IND 36
REP 68
Not had much effect 37
DEM 39
IND 45
REP 24
Weakened 18
DEM 23
IND 13
REP 5
May 20, 2009
Quinnipiac University poll
April 21-27
2041 voters
MOE +/- 2.2%
Should Notre Dame rescind invite to POTUS?
Yes 31%
No 56%
Catholics
Yes 34%
No 60%
Catholics attend service weekly
Yes 43%
No 49%
Less observant Catholics
Yes 26%
No 70%
Protestants
Yes 33%
No 51%
Evangelicals
Yes 42%
No 44%
Given four choices on abortion:
May 3, 2009
I found barry's statement about freedom of the press curious. What good is freedom of the press when they have been completely corrupted? When they choose what will be given press and what will be avoided? And when they make it perfectly clear who they want for president and go about making it happen?
ZOGBY/IFC Poll
Nov 5-6, 2008
93.1% believed barry received more coverage
74.7% believed MEDIA COVERAGE INFLUENCED THE OUTCOME OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
80% believed TV unreliable
84% believed radio unreliable
72.6% believed the news they read/see is biased.
37.6% believed the Internet is most reliable
So 73% believe there was media bias in general, 75% thought media bias influenced the outcome of the presidential election and 93% thought barry got more coverage.
Kind of easy to understand how barry got to be president considering Sen Clinton got the same number of votes. And she got much more when voters actually used a voting machine.
So what does it say about Americans that they don't care that they can no longer trust the mainstream media to report facts?
And what does it say when lawyers quote factcheck as proof in actual legal papers submitted and (allegedly) read by the Supreme Court? And that both Judge Surrick and Judge Robertson relied on the the pro-barry press and the internet and Twitter to make their decisions?
Statement by the President in honor of World Press Freedom Day [Emphasis added]
World Press Freedom Day is annually observed on May 3 to remind us all of the vital importance of this core freedom. It is a day in which we celebrate the indispensable role played by journalists in exposing abuses of power, while we sound the alarm about the growing number of journalists silenced by death or jail as they attempt to bring daily news to the public.
When was the last time an American one was in America? And yes the media was indispensable for barry - if not, this statement wouldn't have his name attached to it.
Although World Press Freedom Day has only been celebrated since 1993, its roots run deep in the international community. In 1948, as people across the globe emerged from the horrors of the Second World War, nations saw fit to enshrine in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights the fundamental principle that everyone "has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
It's clear that barry followers don't believe this.
....Today, I lend my voice of support and admiration to all those brave men and women of the press who labor to expose truth and enhance accountability around the world. In so doing, I recall the words of Thomas Jefferson: "The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
Around the world - not around the country.
Is there a single journalist in America who has any type of curiosity? Who remembers how to to their job? Who has the integrity to stand up and make barry accountable? Who has the courage to force the government to produce some sort of absolute proof of who barry is and whether he is eligible to be President?
April 27, 2009
100 day survey = Celebrity over substance
Folks like barry - not so much his policies. Probably because they don't know what they are until these polls surface.
CNN/Opinion Research Corp
April 23-26
2019 adults
+/- 2%
Approval 63%
Democrats "overwhelming"
Independents 61%
Republicans 28%
Disapproval 33%
Right qualities to be POTUS 75%
Agrees on the issues 57%
Secretary Hillary Clinton has her highest all-time favorability ratings since coming on the national scene in 1992. Americans of all ages and income levels hold positive opinions.
CBS News Poll
March 12-16
58% favorable
25% unfavorable
17% are undecided or haven’t heard enough about her
Women 55%
Men 61%
Under age 45 58%
45 and older 58%
Democrats 87%
Liberal 80%
Moderate 64%
Independents 54%
Republicans 16%
Conservative 36%
White evangelicals 29%
March 2009 58%
Sept 2008 51%
March 2008 39%
March 2007 33%
AS FIRST LADY
Highest: Jan 1999 highest shortly after House voted to impeach Mr Bill 55%
Lowest: Aug 1995 after Whitewater congressional hearing 32%
Jan 2001 47%
Jan 1999 55%
Jan 1998 45%
Jan 1997 36%
Jan 1996 38%
Jan 1995 31%
Jan 1994 36%
Jan 1993 44%
AS SENATOR
Sept 2006 44%
Sept 2005 36%
June 2003 24%
March 2001 36%
AS SECRETARY OF STATE
March 2009
Hillary Clinton (2 months)
58% favorable
unfavorable
17% are undecided or haven’t heard enough about her
Oct 2005 (11 months)
Condoleezza Rice
41% favorable
18% unfavorable
40% undecided or had not heard enough about her
April 2001 (3 months)
Colin Powell
59% favorable
5% unfavorable
33% undecided or had not heard enough about him
May 1997 (4 months)
Madeleine Albright
20% favorable
5% unfavorable
74% were undecided or hadn’t heard enough
CBS News Poll JENNIFER DE PINTO
March 31, 2009
Washington Post/ABC News
On whom do you blame the economy?Great/good deal - some/hardly/any/none
BANKS: 80 19
BUSH: 70 29
BARRY: 26 72
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March 24-30
barry favorable 61
barry unfavorable 32
Diageo/Hotline Poll conducted by FD
N=800 registered voters nationwide
MoE ± 3.5 (for all registered voters)
March 26-29, 2009
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner
Favorable 37MARCH 31, 2009
March 26-29, 2009.
N=1,000 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.
Do you think things in this country are generally going in the right direction or do you feel things have gotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track?"
RIGHT --- WRONG
October 13 --- 85
December 15 --- 82
January 19 --- 78
February 31 --- 67
March 42 --- 57
January 17, 2009
Very interesting. The Washington Times actually printed a letter to the editor about barry's eligibility. Guess they're starting to cover themselves. AOL had one of it's nonscientific poll that showed 48% thought it needed investigating - 45% no merit. That was back in December. Wonder what folks think now...especially after the bizarre double swearing in with no video of the second. Have you even known barry not to want to be on video? His "radio addresses" are on video. It was like a blago tape without the eff words. And then there's VP Biden's joke about Justice Roberts' memory and his wife revealing Biden had a choice between Secretary of State and VP. One heck of a first week.
"Supreme Court accountablity"
by LONNIE LECZO
Louisville, Ky.
January 13, 2009
Top 5 caffeinated cities:
1-Tampa
2-Seattle
3-Chicago
4-New York
5-Los Angeles
Least caffeinated:
1-Riverside/San Bernardino
2-Atlanta
3-San Diego
4-Minneapolis/St. Paul
5-Dallas
Tampa is also
#1-In respondents saying they were least likely to be addicted to caffeine
#1 of ingesters pain relievers
#3 in energy drink consumption
Who pays for these surveys?
Source: MSNBC
January 2, 2008
Now the proobamedia books are coming out. Chuckie Todd's book which I hate to name is: "How Obama won". He's co-wrote it with Sheldon Cowiser (polling expert). They said it would have been written even if barry lost "but the data's the data".
The proobama media bias is all the data one needs.
Check out a chuckie's fan club. "An online salute to the smartest guy on TV how makes sense of the senseless"? Has to be some type of a joke.
The New York Observer's LEON NEYFAKH:
According to editor Errol McDonald, who approached Mr. Todd with the idea about a month before the election, the book will be divided into four sections: Battleground states, emerging battleground states, receding battleground states, and all the rest. Mr. McDonald said the book will come with an introduction by Mr. Todd and Mr. Gawiser (who is NBC's Elections Director) and an appendix that will "give very surprising facts based on the data."
Very surprising facts? Will they finally reveal the proobama media bias? Haha. And interesting folks involved. Now you can see why NBC/MSNBC were the #1 proobamedia outlet followed closely by NEWSWEEK and the Washington Post. I hope I live long enough for them to be called out on their obvious bias. Bias that 74.7% of Americans believe directly affected the outcome of the presidential election. And 93% thought barry received more coverage. Now just imagine if Sen Clinton and Sen McCain were black. What type of outrage would there be?
The Double Standard.
One step closer to a More Perfect Union?
December 29, 2008
Independent Film Channel/Zogby poll shows overwhelmingly that Americans believe the news is biased and that the biased coverage influenced the outcome of the presidential election. Surprise.
They polled 3,472 adults nationwide on November 5 and 6, 2008 with a very good split of sampling. Of those surveyed: Dems 38%, Rep 31% and Independents 28%. East (22%), South (26%), Center/Great Lakes (30%) and west (22%). Nearly all (99.6%) were registered to vote,99.7% voted. 53% voted for barry 46% McCain. MOE +/- 1.7%.
RESULTS:
93.1% barry received more coverage
4.1% thought McCain received more
74.7% thought media coverage of the presidential election influenced the outcome
94.2% Rep
55.6% Dem
79.3% Men
70.2% Women
Overall unreliable
80% TV
84% Radio
72.6% believe the news they read/see is biased.
88.7% Rep
57.5% Dem
77% males
67% females
73.3% White
76.7% Hispanic
62.2% Black
70.6% Asian
83.5% Other
Most reliable source of news
37.6% Internet
20.3% National TV News
16% Radio
11.3% Valid newspapers
4% Local TV News
Most trusted Newspaper
20.1% don't read newspapers
19.6 NY Times
19.2% Local
17.4% WSJ
Most trusted source:
39.3% FOX
16% CNN
15% MSNBC
10.1% PBS
6% NBC
Least trusted:
0.6% CNBC
1.5% CBS
3.3% ABC
81% Rep trust FOX
30.3% Dems trust MSNBC
26.2% Dems trust CNN
Most trusted news personality:
12.5% Rush Limbaugh
10.1% Bill O'Reilly
10.3% None listed
8.5% Brokaw
8% Hannity
6.9% Olbermann
6.6% Williams
6.3% Maddow
Least trusted:
0.6% Elisabeth Hasselbeck (How is she considered a news source?)
1.6% Colbert
1.9% Matthews
2.1% Stephanopoulos
Most trusted news personality:
14.2% Dem Keith Olbermann
29.2% Rep Rush Limbaugh
Don't think media giving a true representation of Iraq
73% overall
90% Rep
55.6% Dem
So 73% believe there is media bias in general, 75% thought media bias influenced the outcome of the presidential election and 93% thought barry got more coverage.
Sure doesn't get a lot clearer than that or folks who need stats to point out the obvious.
December 11, 2008
NBC/WSJ poll (12/5-8)
77% Obama will face more challenges than recent presidents
Expect him to: improve the economy and America's standing in the world the economy, repair infrastructure and withdraw from Iraq -- things he has promised.
Federal government handling the financial crisis well?
YES 20%
NO 71%
90% Economy has gotten worse
75% Can relate to him as president
40% View him more favorably than election day
Approve of how Obama is handling the transition?
YES 73%
NO 13%
View of Obama
Positive 67%
Negative 16%
Approve of his appointments?
YES 67%
NO
Miss Bush after he leaves office?
YES 19%
NO 79%
Bush's greatest achievement?
35% Safe from terrorists
25% Getting rid of Saddam Hussein
Biggest failure?
35% Iraq (figured this would be much higher -especially with 79% saying they won't miss him. The comedians will.)
AXELROD's already lowering expectations for CHANGE!:
It's gratifying and important to go in to meet these challenges with the support and goodwill of the American people, but we should never lose sight of the challenges, and it's going to take some time.
