President Obama and Congressional Dems Skyrocket in Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll-58% approval!

It's the only sensible thing to do.

He doesn't seem willing to just cave in and give Chief Hostage Taker Boehner what he wants in the fiscal cliff showdown.

Democrats less so than Republicans, but the Democrats are still asking for substantial cuts.

view is best. I don't make bets about stuff like this, but particularly now. I am sensing a big tide of revulsion against the Republican Party in this country as people contemplate the destruction of SS and Medicare and are getting really mad.

whom on the Democratic side is asking for substanial spending cuts and what they are? Just give names instead of just Generalities? For example, I live in a predominately Blue District, and my representative isn't asking for any such thing you claim. I don't know where this idea comes from, that Democrats in Congress act on their own and don't have any constituents, just like those representing these red districts? That is unless people think that constituents in Blue Districts are just sheep. The same can happen to Democrats as can Republicans. You must think these Democratic representatives are stupid and will commit suicide because the republicans and media pundits want them to? So give specific Democrats you are referring to?

I think I know what he is doing here, but I'll button it for now.

Must be in the 60s.

First of all Welcome to DU!

Second stick to your guns! Do not let anyone get you down.

The Repukes will, as they did so successfully in 2010, pose as defenders of Medicare and Dems will get creamed in both houses.

Rasmussen numbers mean you can add a few points for the Dems IRL. Very cool. The book was by John Judas and Rex Texiera, but otherwise I agree with everying you've said.

FYI, the morning after the election, he adjusted all of his future polls to match the 2012 Presidential Exit Poll electorate breakdown.

.. you know if rasmussen is involved there's a background rightwing strategy involved. On this approval rating, it's 'stop the bleeding' - rasmussen is trying to blunt criticism from it's 2012 polling where it finished near the bottom feeders of polldom. Have you forgotten so soon rasmussens' approval ratings for obama a couple years back when for over an entire year not one approval was in positive territory? even after bin laden was killed & poll avgs had +10 obama, rass had it tied, the lowest of the low.

.. Q: are you now more inclined to give rass credibility? duh, yeah most would be, seeing 58% approval, highest for several years now. Not that it isn't true, but for rasmussen polling that would be padding obama 10 pts from it's usual standards. Suddenly he adopts current electorate percents, I doubt it will sustain thru 2014, or at least be cleverly manipulated.
What do they care now? their end game failed, they couldn't sway many for effective republican gains, no meaningful elections polls for another 15 months, may as well go for the 'restore our credibility' motive. (Not to be confused with mitt romney's 'restore our futility' campaign theme).

Rasmussen was the worst pollster in 2000 election, picking gwbush to beat algore by 9 (nine) pts, worst of the major polls, and conscientious commentators noted rass padded avg ~5pts to the right in most all the 2000 senate & some congressional races. After 2000 results redounded badly for poor rass, he promised everyone that he would work harder to make his polls better & more reflective of electorate - so similar to what he's promising in your current link to 'adjust to the 2012 electorate'.
Rass was accurate in 2004 - when your candidate is actually ahead you need not pad that much, so they sorta backed into accuracy, in spite of themselves - bet they were as surprised as anyone.
.. flash, scott rasmussen wanted romney to win, very badly he wanted romney to win, scott rasmussen is a rightwing spin machine, currently on rinse cycle.
Beware, rasmussen will spin agayne.

PS: only reason rass is included in real clear politics (RCP) is that RCP is majority controlled by forbes at 51%, forbes a rightwinger himself, so he & rass go hand in hand up the rightwing stairway to heaven (or down). The other notabl poll of polls 'Polling Report' does not include rasmussen, ostensibly since rass invariably is several points to the right of the polling averages.

Here's RCP (real clear politics aka real queer politics), here's RCP's approval ratings from past month since election --- rasmussen trying SO HARD, post election fumbling, to win hearts & minds of, um, it's newfound electorate:

Gallup 12/7 - 12/9 1500 A 51 43 ................... +8
Rasmussen Reports 12/7 - 12/9 1500 LV 58 41....... +17
Politico/GWU/Battlegrd 12/2 - 12/6 1000 LV 50 47... +3
Associated Press/GfK 11/29 - 12/3 1002 A 57 41.... +16
Quinnipiac 11/28 - 12/3 1949 RV 53 40 .............+13
National Journal 11/25 - 12/1 1000 A 54 42........ +12
CNN/Opinion Research 11/16 - 11/18 RV 52 45........ +7

On an ordinary day in campaign season mode, rass would have this thing a big fat zero. But hey, now they can crow 'padding? we? pollrigging? us? we had obama at the highest approval rating of all the pollsters, you can't possibly call us biased!"

You just watch.

As the Fiscal Speed Bump talks heat up those numbers will change drastically.