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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (33372)	2/26/2009 5:44:32 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

HaHaHa! Peter, while I'm certain that you have strong feelings and emotions of the subject of the President... regardless of that you supplied nothing in the way of objective evidence to support your rather bald assertion and bold prediction that "[President Obama's] initial surge of support from Republicans he extinguished with his partisanship" and that "he is on a trajectory for joining Pelosi as one of the most hated people in America". I mean, Hell, although you didn't post it to me I do know that ONE national poll came out last weekend showing his strong approvals down to "59%" (at the exact same time that FOUR OTHER national polls came out which showed his approvals unchanged in the low 60's... and Real Clear Politics' average of all the most recent national polls show him still quite steady with an over-all support number of 62%, and his GOP support at about 44%....) There is not much of a spread between 59% and 62% --- the difference is entirely within all those poll's statistical margins of error. :-) ...All this just one week after a very hard-fought battle was concluded over the high-profile Stimulus Bill. (And, I might add... just a very few days before his address to the nation before a joint session of Congress, likely I guess to cause a short-term boost in his numbers in the next set of polls to come....) So, aside from your very personal 'druthers... it seems that the AVAILABLE EVIDENCE thus far to support your claimed Titanic-like path for his popularity seems just NOT THERE YET. Which is why I said this when I replied to your post (& later asked if you regularly consulted 'chicken entrails' to arrive at your predictions <g>): Have you forgotten that you PRESENTED ABSOLUTELY NO 'FACTS'????????? All you posted was your personal gut feelings. Sorry... but it simply AIN'T any kind of "ad hominem attack" to just point out that you only posted your personal opinions --- and NOT any kind of objective facts. (No disrespect to you intended at all... and, I'm sure that you hold your own personal opinions in very high regard... but they simply AIN'T 'facts', they are still OPINIONS.)

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (33372)	2/27/2009 11:40:35 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

Obama Approval Rating Increases to 67% Had dropped to 59% prior to his Tuesday congressional address February 27, 2009 by Jeffrey M. Jones gallup.com PRINCETON, NJ -- In the days immediately after Barack Obama's nationally televised address to Congress on Tuesday night, his public support has increased significantly to 67% in Feb. 24-26 Gallup Daily polling, and is now just two points below his term high. This comes on the heels of a term-low 59% reported by Gallup on Tuesday. Obama's speech was well-received, and appears to have won him back support he had been losing in prior days, and then some. The speech certainly came at an opportune time for Obama, but a recovery was easily achievable because the decline in his approval rating was accompanied by an increase in the percentage of Americans expressing no opinion, rather than an increase in the proportion disapproving of his performance in office. Since the speech, the percentage having no opinion of Obama has fallen back to 11% from 16%, while his approval rating has increased eight points. There has been a slight drop in his disapproval rating as well, from 25% to 21%. Obama's approval rebound is due to increased support from all political groups, but especially from independents and Republicans, whose support had been waning. Over the past week, independents' approval of Obama dropped from 62% to 54%, but is now back to 62%. There has been a sharp increase in support among Republicans, from 27% to 42%. Democrats' support for Obama was already extremely high at 86%, but even this has climbed slightly, to 90% in the latest polling. Survey Methods Results are based on telephone interviews with 1,551 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted Feb. 24-26, 2009, as part of Gallup Poll Daily tracking. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points. Interviews are conducted with respondents on land-line telephones (for respondents with a land-line telephone) and cellular phones (for respondents who are cell-phone only). In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.