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To: Brumar89 who wrote (541710)	1/7/2010 1:38:33 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578138

President Obama starts 2010 with 50 percent approval politico.com By ANDY BARR \| 1/6/10 8:21 AM EST The president has a 44 percent disapproval rating. Photo: AP President Barack Obama enters 2010 with one of the lowest approval ratings of any president heading into his second year, according to a new Gallup poll out Wednesday. Fifty percent approve of how Obama has handled his job as president, the second lowest total since Gallup started polling. Obama beats only Ronald Reagan, who started 1982 with a 49 percent approval rating. The president has a 44 percent disapproval rating. “President Obama has been walking the public opinion tightrope represented by the 50 approval job approval line since about mid-November, with his rating wavering between 47 approval and 53 approval,” wrote Gallup’s Lydia Saad in her analysis. Among the presidents Gallup has polled, George W. Bush entered his second year with the highest approval rating, getting 84 percent only a few months removed from the September 11 terrorist attacks and on the heels of the invasion of Afghanistan. Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush, had an 80 percent approval rating after his first year, the second highest total. John F. Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon rounded out the top five, getting 79 percent, 71 percent and 61 percent respectively. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were the only other presidents polled who, like Obama, started their second years as president in the 50s, earning 55 percent and 54 percent, respectively. politico.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (541710)	1/7/2010 1:39:46 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578138

>> Gallup May Be Permanently in the Obami’s Dog House I've always thought Gallup was pretty fair. But I heard some audiotape of LBJ over the weekend that made me wonder. LBJ clearly stated he had no confidence in them (and cited a couple of other organizations as well). If a president doesn't, not sure why I should.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (541710)	2/4/2010 5:27:34 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578138

Gallup: Every state is more conservative than liberal The Gallup Poll people asked people to identify themselves as conservative or moderates or liberals. Nationally, 40% said conservative, 36% said moderate and 21% said liberal. I have no idea what happened to that remaining 3%. By state, the numbers ranged from 27.1% conservative in Hawaii to 49.4% conservative in Alabama. The numbers also ranged from 13.9% liberal in Mississippi to 29% liberal in Massachusetts. But in no state — not even Vermont — did the liberals outnumber the conservatives. In fact, conservatives edged out liberals in every state, by margins ranging from 0.8% in Vermont to 34.6% in Alabama. In only one place in the United States did liberals outnumber conservatives. Washington, D.C. Maybe that is why the nation is so screwed up. blogs.dailymail.com