Topic: We're in Deep Trouble if these Survey Numbers are True

[jpatrickham]

Filed under 2012 Election, Culture, Economics, Media, Politics

 

"A new Barna Survey reveals shows that 48 percent of those surveyed rated President Obama’s honesty as “excellent” or “good” on a five-point scale. Nearly 70 percent gave the same ratings to Obama on the intelligence factor. The most shocking number is that 45 percent found Obama’s philosophy of government to be excellent or good.

Among Protestants, Obama received the best scores on honesty, intelligence and philosophy of government. Rick Perry was close behind on all three characteristics. The two had nearly identical scores on leadership ability.

I don’t get it. How can these numbers be as high as they are given the fact that unemployment is in the 9 percent range, the economy is stalled, spending is out of control with calls for more spending, we’ve been involved in toppling two foreign governments, and there are calls for higher taxes on the most productive members of society?

What do we make of the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll that says “Four in 10 Americans ‘strongly’ disapprove of how President Obama is handling the job of president in the, the highest that number has risen during his time in office and a sign of the hardening opposition to him as he seeks a second term”? Something’s not right.

If the President Obama is so smart, then why doesn’t he understand that you don’t fix an economy by raising taxes and adding more regulations on businesses? Then there’s the teleprompter thing. Do you remember how the media poked fun of Ronald Reagan because he used note cards? Obama can’t give an address without the use of a teleprompter.


Sure, Obama may be book smart, but that doesn’t mean he’s economic smart. His ideology has gotten in the way of the facts of history and the fundamentals of economics, and his accomplices in the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the media are covering for him.

The honesty results are equally puzzling. President Obama continues to blame everybody and everything for the failing economy except his own policies. Three years of blaming George Bush are enough, so now the down-turn in the economy is being blamed on the weather, the tea party, millionaires and billionaires, the Japanese earthquake, and the American people for being “soft.” We’ve seen this before:

In 1979, as the U.S. was reeling from skyrocketing interest rates, high unemployment and an energy crisis, President Jimmy Carter delivered a televised address that would later infamously be labeled, “the malaise speech.” He never used the word, but rather blamed the poor economy in part on a “crisis of the American spirit.”

Unlike Carter, whose popularity plummeted in the final two years of his presidency, Obama’s is still high.

I don’t get it. Maybe Obama is right, Americans have gotten soft . . . soft in the head."

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I'm still trying to figure out how Obama got elected in the first place.

[LadyVirginia]

I don't get the polls that say voters like him.

What's to like?

He comes off as a cold fish and self-centered doofus.

If he's so smart why can't he fix anything?  Blaming the republicans doesn't cut it because someone "THAT" smart should be able to figure out a solution.


On the other hand, you can like someone and still not want to vote for him.

[IronDioPriest]

The Bradley Effect

[charlesoakwood]

...and they are so in the tank for him they are jiggering the numbers hoping to influence the outcome.

[rickl]

I don't pay much attention to polls.  I've always believed that they are more about molding and shaping public opinion than reflecting it.

[John Florida]

...and they are so in the tank for him they are jiggering the numbers hoping to influence the outcome.

 The only numbers that count will be cast in 13 months.Jigger that.

[charlesoakwood]

January 31 Florida will have its primary. The losers of that primary will have great difficulty gathering enough momentum and votes to overcome the Florida winner.  Whoever wins the Florida primary, the first primary, in
in all probability will be the Republican nominee.  Our nominee.

[LadyVirginia]

January 31 Florida will have its primary. The losers of that primary will have great difficulty gathering enough momentum and votes to overcome the Florida winner.  Whoever wins the Florida primary, the first primary, in
in all probability will be the Republican nominee.  Our nominee.

I hope we don't then spend the next 10 months explaining the choice and defending it.

[Predator Don]

This poll would be so easy to skew in so many directions.....and we know it was.
I'd say an "honesty" vote of 48% is extremely low, considering race, the threat of labeled a racist or bigot and plain ole human nature. Hell, it's easy to state "he is a nice guy". Only 48%..... He is in deep doo doo.

[trapeze]

The Bradley Effect

Beat me to it. A lot of people who I will casually discuss politics with express the same degree of puzzlement over BO's inexplicable favorability rating. Then I will explain the Bradley Effect and the light bulb goes on over their heads and they say, "Oh, yeah..."

It makes total sense.

[trapeze]

This poll would be so easy to skew in so many directions.....and we know it was.
I'd say an "honesty" vote of 48% is extremely low, considering race, the threat of labeled a racist or bigot and plain ole human nature. Hell, it's easy to state "he is a nice guy". Only 48%..... He is in deep doo doo.

If I could only be an eyewitness to BO actually being in deep doo doo. I get all misty eyed just thinking about it.

It could be on pay per view.

I'd pay for it.

I'd have friends over for beer and pizza.

I'd order the commemorative photo set of the event.

Good times, good times.

[LadyVirginia]

This poll would be so easy to skew in so many directions.....and we know it was.
I'd say an "honesty" vote of 48% is extremely low, considering race, the threat of labeled a racist or bigot and plain ole human nature. Hell, it's easy to state "he is a nice guy". Only 48%..... He is in deep doo doo.

If I could only be an eyewitness to BO actually being in deep doo doo. I get all misty eyed just thinking about it.

It could be on pay per view.

I'd pay for it.

I'd have friends over for beer and pizza.

I'd order the commemorative photo set of the event.

Good times, good times.

oh, yeah!   

[Sectionhand]

That poll is B.S. The questions were jiggered to manufacture a desired result .

[Libertas]

That poll is B.S. The questions were jiggered to manufacture a desired result .

SSDD!

[John Florida]

This poll would be so easy to skew in so many directions.....and we know it was.
I'd say an "honesty" vote of 48% is extremely low, considering race, the threat of labeled a racist or bigot and plain ole human nature. Hell, it's easy to state "he is a nice guy". Only 48%..... He is in deep doo doo.

If I could only be an eyewitness to BO actually being in deep doo doo. I get all misty eyed just thinking about it.

It could be on pay per view.

I'd pay for it.

I'd have friends over for beer and pizza.

I'd order the commemorative photo set of the event.
Good times, good times.

It could be made into a set of wall plates.

[jpatrickham]

Just read an article from AP in my very Liberal newspaper about 1 in 3 think the Wars the last 10 years have been a waste. Most, also said Obama a waste as Commander in Chief. Hope to get this article and publish it.