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2010-07-03 Home Front: Politix

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 24% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20 (see trends).

Just 29% believe the president's economic stimulus package has helped the economy while 43% believe it has hurt. Voters say that decisions made by business owners following their own self-interest will create more jobs than decisions made by government officials.

Consumer and investor confidence are both down slightly since the beginning of 2010 and down sharply since early May. The Rasmussen Employment Index slipped a point this month.

Partisan identification has stabilized during 2010. Numbers for June show that 35.4% consider themselves Democrats while 33.9% consider themselves Republicans. The number of Democrats is down about six points since Election 2008 while the number of Republicans is essentially unchanged.

Sixty-two percent (62%) want to leave the U.S. Constitution alone, but a plurality believes it doesn't place enough restrictions on government.

Voters are fairly evenly divided as to whether or not Elena Kagan should be confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice, but voters overwhelmingly expect her to be confirmed.

Posted by Fred 2010-07-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 I'm just awaiting the dead cat bounce. This loser is seems is trying to make Carter look adequate. At the worst possible time, we get a bumbling, socialist, tool for president.

Posted by Jefferson 2010-07-03 00:09|| 2010-07-03 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Jefferson, it is not by a coincidence, it is by a design.

Posted by twobyfour 2010-07-03 01:17|| 2010-07-03 01:17|| Front Page Top

#3

Strongly Approve numbers mean nothing. Die Hards are Die Hards.

Look at the Strongly Disapprove number for a real take on how people feel.

44%!

Posted by Parabellum 2010-07-03 08:47|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-07-03 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 I honestly have to wonder if the numbers for Obama wouldn't be much worse if he wasn't black? I believe a significant number of people are so PC that they are concerned about being racist if they disapprove.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-07-03 12:49|| 2010-07-03 12:49|| Front Page Top

#5 I would add to what Parabellum says: It's not only the strongly approve (whose core is always around 25-30%), but the strongly disapprove (whose core is also in that range) that is 15 to 20 points above the core that is important. That 15 to 20 points above corerepresents the somewhat swing vote the got the donks in power and they have, to this point, lost.

Posted by anymouse 2010-07-03 16:17|| 2010-07-03 16:17|| Front Page Top

#6 NoMoreBS - in that case, there would be 0% who strongly disapprove, since a white guy (even a DemoncRat) with exactly the same "credentials" would never have been nominated, let alone elected, in the first place.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-07-03 17:39|| 2010-07-03 17:39|| Front Page Top

#7 with exactly the same "credentials"
Barb Skolaut

Credentials?...... Examples please.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-07-03 19:46|| 2010-07-03 19:46|| Front Page Top

#8 "Credentials?...... Examples please." - Besoeker

Well, lessee - no management experience (or experience doing anything productive, for that matter); thuggish friends; hangs with communists and violent anarchists; votes "present" because he doesn't want to be caught making a decision (or maybe is too ~~dumb~~ uninformed to make one); proudly embraces a religious "leader" who publicly damns America (in church, no less) - until it becomes inconvenient, then throws him under the bus with the rest of the crowd; says his election will cause the seas to subside ~~because he's the Second Coming~~ ....

Is that enough for a start?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-07-03 20:37|| 2010-07-03 20:37|| Front Page Top

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