"Conservatives," I Thought Obama Was Responsible for 435 House Races?

[Velleity]

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Maybe the narrow victories with only 42% turnout doesn't actually mean as much as you want it to mean?

President Barack Obama earned a 47% approval rating from the American public in Gallup Daily tracking from Friday through Sunday, slightly higher than his 44% approval rating at the start of the week, and his 43% approval rating in the three days prior to and including Tuesday's midterm elections.

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While the increase in Obama's job approval rating since the election is small in absolute terms, the fact that it is up at all after his party's major congressional and gubernatorial losses is notable. According to Gallup trends, former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush saw their job approval ratings decline after their parties' midterm election losses in 1994 and 2006, respectively.

Bush's approval fell from 38% in Gallup polling conducted Nov. 2-5, 2006, to 33% in less than a week. Clinton's approval rating also declined after the 1994 midterms, though the roughly four-week lag between the two Gallup surveys spanning that election make the connection between the election outcome and the decline less clear.



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Support for Obama in the first week in November among various demographic and political subgroups is very much in line with where it was during October. He receives widespread approval from blacks (88% approve) and Democrats (81%) as well as majority support from Hispanics (63%), adults aged 18 to 29 (54%), and those living in low-income households (53%). By 49% to 41%, he also receives higher support from women than men.

[IM2]

They did not really win much of anything  vel. Just a few seats in the house. IN 2 years they could be out again thanks to the tea bag nutjobs that got elected.

[Velleity]

They did not really win much of anything  vel. Just a few seats in the house. IN 2 years they could be out again thanks to the tea bag nutjobs that got elected.

I can't tell you what will happen in 2 years IM.

I had a couple of cases with Roland Burris before he was appointed as Senator. I would not tell you that he was the sharpest knife in the drawer but he certainly is brighter and more accomplished than any "conservative" I have ever encountered.

Anyway I asked him in 2008 if there was any way that Democrats could blow this, and was the future as bright as I thought it was?

He gave me a funny look and said that they may be Democrats but they're still politicians and of course they can blow it.

"Conservatives" want to convince us that Obama has blown it. I almost puked this morning watching Joe Scar compare Obama to Bush and claiming that neither man can admit their mistakes. What "mistakes" has Obama actually made and why does Joe Scar, or "conservatives" for that matter, get to decide that they were "mistakes"?

It's yet another one of their inane push polls. Bush's book is written, now literally. He can't admit that Iraq was an unmitigated catastrophe when it is more and more clear every that that's exactly what it was. Obama has not committed any unmitigated catastrophe and yet he has to own up to it anyway because Joe Scar wants him to?

This election was about the low turnout of a midterm and the economy, generally. It is not an indicator of anything for 2012.

Democrats are politicians and they can blow it and as we know Republicans are politicians who have blown it many, many times.

[IM2]

I just look at the types of new representatives elected vel. They cannot stand the scrutiny that the regular election will bring. If a larger turnout is the answer, and if democrats and liberals turn out in larger numbers in 2012, republicans can't win. If the republican plan goes as advertised, they will get booted out hardcore because things will be far worse.The fact that the economy was turning around before republicans took over and the inevitable depression they are pushing us towards will close the book on the right wing.

Or it should anyway.

[Velleity]

If a larger turnout is the answer, and if democrats and liberals turn out in larger numbers in 2012, republicans can't win.

There will be a larger turnout in 2012. I wouldn't say they can't win. Democrats are politicians. They can blow it.

[IM2]

True.