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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (62476)	4/3/2009 1:32:24 PM
From: TideGlider	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224759

Of course that is Gallup and Kenneth Phillipps doesn't approve of Gallup polls. He prefers Rasmussen. Here is Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll Friday, April 03, 2009 Email to a FriendAdvertisement The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 35% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-two percent (32%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +3, his lowest rating to date (see trends). With the exception of a brief blip earlier this week, the President’s Approval Index ratings have generally been in the +4 to + 7 range for the past three weeks. The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates also available on Twitter. Overall, 56% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance so far. Forty-four percent (44%) disapprove. For more data, see Obama By the Numbers and recent demographic highlights. Ratings for Congress are up, but so is the number who say that most members of Congress are corrupt. As the President meets with world leaders, most Americans believe the economy will be helped more by the decisions of U.S. business leaders to grow their own businesses than by the actions of world leaders on behalf of the global economy. Americans are evenly divided on the President’s commitment to have the government back auto warranties. Please take a moment to predict where the President’s Approval Index will be at the end of his first 100 days in office. You can also predict who will win the Final Four basketball tournament this weekend and other topics at the Rasmussen Reports Prediction Center. The number of Democrats in the nation declined two percentage points in March while the number of Republicans dropped half-a-point. While Democrats continue to enjoy a significant advantage over the GOP in terms of partisan identification, the gap is the smallest it’s been since December 2007. Democrats hold a four-point advantage on the Generic Congressional Ballot. Thirty-six percent (36%) of voters now say the nation is heading in the right direction. Seventy-six percent (76%) of Americans say that, even if General Motors fails, the U.S. economy can recover. Only 9% disagree. There’s also bad news for the newspaper industry—as newspapers go out of business, 61% of American adults are confident that online and other news sources will make up the difference and report things people want to know. A Fordham University professor has rated the national pollsters on their record in Election 2008. We also have provided a summary of our results for your review. See comments on comparing Job Approval ratings from different polling firms. Daily tracking results are collected via telephone surveys of 500 likely voters per night and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. The margin of sampling error—for the full sample of 1,500 Likely Voters--is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Results are also compiled on a full-week basis and crosstabs for the full-week results are available for Premium Members. Like all polling firms, Rasmussen Reports weights its data to reflect the population at large (see methodology). Among other targets, Rasmussen Reports weights data by political party affiliation using a dynamic weighting process. While partisan affiliation is generally quite stable over time, there are a fair number of people who waver between allegiance to a particular party or independent status. Over the past four years, the number of Democrats in the country has increased while the number of Republicans has decreased. Our baseline targets are established based upon separate survey interviews with a sample of adults nationwide completed during the preceding three months (a total of 45,000 interviews) and targets are updated monthly. Currently, the baseline targets for the adult population are 40.1% Democrats, 33.1% Republicans, and 26.7% unaffiliated. Likely voter samples typically show a slightly smaller advantage for the Democrats. A review of last week’s key polls is posted each Saturday morning. Other stats on Obama are updated daily on the Rasmussen Reports Obama By the Numbers page. We also invite you to review other recent demographic highlights from the tracking polls.