Improving views of the economy have helped hike President Barack Obama's approval rating to a 20-month high, a new CNN/ORC poll showed Tuesday, as markets climbed to record levels at news of an economy in overdrive.
More Americans still disapprove of the job Obama is doing as President. But at 48%, Obama's approval rating is at its highest point in CNN polling since May 2013.
The gains were driven by newfound backing among women, independents and millennials — groups where Obama's approval numbers jumped 10 percentage points from a month ago.
You know the only thing better than good news, is good news that you know will irritate the GOP.
I have a feeling that if the President continues his new "Fuck you I'm going to do it anyway" attitude that his poll numbers will probably keep right on climbing.
And if he manages to get Gitmo closed....well then all bets are off.
When that man closes Gitmo, and he will, OH will we celebrate! Proceed, sir.
ReplyDeleteOutstanding! Love the guy and like his new attitude. Screw the Republicans, President Obama!!!
ReplyDeleteBad news for back-stabbing Hil Clinton too.
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful Hillary Clinton chose a life of public service, when she could have just sat on the couch eating bonbons.
DeleteDon't get me wrong... I don't particularhly dislike Ms Clinton, I just question the judgment she displays from time to time. Great example being when she fired parting shots on leaving the Obama Administration with the president's poll numbes being so low. I'm certainly not pleased she threw the door to the nomination wide for Old Handsome Joe by so doing. But it is what it is.
DeleteI should not have fired off such a charged metaphor. I mean only to say that disassociating from this Administration as she did was a serious gaffe politically, one that will cost the nomination in 2016. Just as I said at the time, she effectively handed it over to Joe Biden.
DeleteI understand and Clinton does many things I don't agree with (as does Obama). There will be a lot of water flowing under the bridge between now and August of 2016. I personally don't think Biden has a chance of getting the nomination.
DeleteI highly doubt Biden is interested.
DeleteI love him, too, and his beautiful and loving family. Bet they had a terrific, quiet, peaceful Christmas full of positive thoughts and deeds, and with no need to send out tweets and photos to prove how loving they are.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes! Close that hellhole, and the sooner the better!
"...if the President continues his new "Fuck you I'm going to do it anyway" attitude"
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It is not a "new" attitude. He said a long time ago that if congress wouldn't do their jobs and govern, then he was going to use his phone and pen.
Things that are signed today, or agreed to today, or are instituted today, have often been in the works for months.
He didn't call up Castro the day after the mid-terms and say "Fuck the republicans, Raoul, let's normalize relations." It has been in the works for over a year.
Saying that his methodology for getting things done has become "Fuck y'all, I'm gonna do what I want", trivializes his months and years of hard work, diplomacy, and actual governance, as well as his encyclopedic knowledge of the Constitution, state and federal laws, and legal precedents.
He is not impulsively acting out. He is, as usual, playing the long game to quietly and as effectively as possible continue doing what he has been doing all along, which is to leave this country and its people in better shape than when he started, and to set policies in place that will, if at all possible, not be overturned with the stroke of a pen.
"The gains were driven by newfound backing among women, independents and millennials — groups where Obama's approval numbers jumped 10 percentage points from a month ago."
Well, how unfortunate that these asses couldn't bestir themselves to vote a month ago. The toddler-like attention span and focus on sound bites and if-I-didn't-hear-about-it-until-today-it-didn't-exist-until-today mentality is not flattering to this country or where it should be in world affairs.
Spot on, Nefer!
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I think Gryph's saying by this that the 2014 mid-terms were the last election for which the president had to make accomodations. Now the gloves are off. Similarly, it will now be easier to separate the pragmatiss from the ideologues, on the other side of the aisle.
DeleteWell said. Absolutely right. All this bandwagon jumping now that his hard work is paying off is really sickening. Democrats all but abandoned him leading up to the last mid-term election. No wonder republicans wield so much power despite their abysmal performance when they are actually in power. Their base gets out and votes.
DeleteLove the President!
ReplyDeleteSorry Hooha..you lost the vp and you're a quitter & I know you hate such GREAT NEWS!
No only does she hate Great NEWS when it's about he president, but she & the rePUGS find ways to twist shit. I read in one of the conservative BS sites last week that bush paved the way to the economic growth!
DeleteIn the meantime the 25-year-old wasilli woman from the thongazy affair is infactuated with abortions, black abortions, blah blah blah and keeps posting her abortion dreams in her little pathetic blog.
Do the math kids:
ReplyDelete2008, the Dow was around 8800, now over 18,000
GDP this quarter highest since 2003
Unemployment lowest since 2005
Gas prices lowest in 5 years
Russian economy going downhill due in part to sanctions by US and Europe.
Oil and gas production in USA booming. At this point we are exporting more than ever before, and are using less imported petroleum than ever in our history
Health care prices increase by lowest percentage for many years.
Affordable health care act saves thousands of lives by providing low cost insurance to 5 million Americans.
General motors and Chrysler having record profits, and are providing well over 1 MILLION jobs to Americans because President Obama decided to loan them money to get them out
of the recession after Bush/Cheney's disaster economy.
Lowest budget deficits since 2008
The wealthiest Americans now enjoy a standard of living not seen since the 1890's, the era of the robber barons!
Gee, you'd almost think that we had a conservative Republican President who is trying to make the country more prosperous!
President Obama is not perfect, and he has made some pretty major mistakes, and the continuation of torture and the drone programs are black marks, imho.
As a fiscal conservative, I am proud of the quiet, thoughtful, and careful way that President Obama has handled his office, and has countered the hateful vicious attacks from the Teaparty thugs like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert, and $arah Caribou Barbie.
In spite of all they have thrown at him, he's been "steady as she goes".
Bravo!
Can you imagine the brass balls some conservative BS sites have, like Anonymous @ 10:04 AM mentions above, to suggest "that bush paved the way to the economic growth!"?
DeleteWE aren't stupid. But you have to surmise the conservative BS sites think their listener/readers are, or their listeners/readers really ARE stupid, like Jonathan Gruber said.
As Andrew Sullivan would say on The Dish, "Meep. Meep." :D
DeleteThe only issue I have with your post:
Delete"Gee, you'd almost think that we had a conservative Republican President who is trying to make the country more prosperous!"
Please stop perpetuating that myth, even in jest. Republican presidents talk a mean game but the last one to actually balance the budget was Eisenhower.
I'm in Canada, so don't hear the election speeches, but I would assume in the midterm election the Democrat candidates ran on this, no?
DeleteLove that pic. The Baby Whisperer is back!!
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He should stop that little boy from eating Baby's feet!
DeletePoll numbers on the rise. In other words the GOP isn't lying about him 24/7 -- at the moment.
ReplyDeleteyeah...and that lying shit is getting old and stinky...
DeleteI was amused to read the same day ABC/WaPo's poll said POTUS' approval % was at 41, right-leaning Rasmussen and CNN said it was 48% -- and as you say, rising.
Deletehttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/12/democratic-allegiance-hits-a-low-can-the-gop-seize-the-opportunity/
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/23/politics/obama-approval-rating/
You can easily guess which poll the RWNJs prefer.
Why is this bristol woman so hateful, especially towards minorities. Not only is she hateful but she's also ignorant.
ReplyDeleteThe woman literally breaths hate. She just posted her TOP blog posting: Patricia Heaton’s Gutsy Tweet About Black Abortions
she hates blacks and that's wh yshe hates the president, and that's why she gave her black kid away.
DeleteConsider what he's had to do and put up with while running the country. Boehner didn't do the lion's share of babysitting the cray cray, just saying. And despite it all, we're in pretty decent shape
ReplyDeleteIs he perfect? Wear a supeman cape? Have superpowers? No, but neither did the Obama I voted for, he simply was the best choice at the time. He's changed the way the world sees us and things are starting to look up overseas and here at home. He works hard to get the people's work done while undoing the mess of the previous eight year regime.
Try not to laugh, but close your eyes and imagine if McCain and the sea hag won, then quit? You can stop laughing now. .
No self-respecting baby would touch the Sea Hag's nose!
ReplyDeleteThey would turn toward their birth-certificate-carrying mommies and shriek with panic.
I am so glad that $arah Hooah hasn't tried any baby-whisperer stunts, except with Trig... and we all know what HE thinks of HER.
It really is all about voter turnout. If half the population now approves of the president's performance and the number has just started to climb, then it follows that a sizable portion of those who disapprove do so because he is not progressive enough, not because he is too much so. And those voters would not vote for a conservative, so if they all voted, wouldn't we have one democratic landslide after another?
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