Reuters/Ipsos poll. Obama drops 10% amongst Independents.

[center rising]

Obama is going to need Independents is he is going to have a second term. 37% of Independents view Obama favorably, down from 47% a month ago. 64% of the country think America is on the wrong track.

If there is any relatively good news, Obama's overall approval rating stands at 49%, down only two points from last time.

Poll results here.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/09/us-obama-poll-idUSTRE7284SZ20110309

[crim son]

1. I'm one of them and it has nothing to do

with soaring gas prices.

[otohara]

3. You've Voted GOP?

can't understand why people who claim to be "independent" would let the rest of us choose who they'll be voting for.

[crim son]

10. Do you also wonder why they poll Independents?

Therein lies the answer to your confusion.

[otohara]

17. Because They're Apathetic and Easily Manipulated

and I'm not confused.

[otohara]

2. Which Ever Way The Wind Blows

so goes the Independents

Independents are not at all independent, they are the most apathetic voters and not too smart when it comes to government, politicians.

[center rising]

5. We're going to need them to win next year. guaranteed!!!

[emilyg]

11. The ones I know are

well informed.

[otohara]

18. Why Then

do they let the rest of us choose who they will be voting for, then complain they don't like either candidate.

I've heard the later many, many times while phone banking.

[Drunken Irishman]

19. Really? I find that hard to believe...

I do not respect an independent voter. I think they're the dumbest group of voters out there. They're the same people who, two years ago, supported Pres. Obama and then, last November, decided they'd switch to the far-right and back a cluster of idiotic tea-party candidates.

Independent voters are generally voters too stupid to formulate an opinion. So they rely on superficial and vapid reasons to support whomever they think is the best candidate.

It's why we go from Clinton to Bush to Obama to...?

At least Republicans have their ideology and aren't as fickle as a teenage girl in a shopping mall.

In fact, I think that sums up independent voters to a tee!

"Oh My God! I LOVE THIS DRESSSSS!!!!!!! IT IS THE GREATEST THING EVAAAAAAR!!!!! I WANT!!!"

Two minutes later...

"Oh My God! THIS DRESS IS THE ONE I WANT! I'M POSITIVE MOM! GET ME THIS DRESS!"

A week later the dress sits at the bottom of the closet.

They're idiotic voters who should not be allowed to vote. No one can be undecided or indifferent or independent on anything.

If you're an independent, it means you're too stupid to grasp the issues or you're too stupid to care.

Seriously. Where do independents stand on the issues? Are they pro-choice? If they were, they certainly wouldn't be electing Republicans. Are they pro-environment? If they were, they certainly wouldn't be electing Republicans. Are they pro-worker? If they were, they certainly wouldn't be electing Republicans.

Yet they supported Bush in two elections and then turned around and supported Obama in 2008...only to turn around and support a reactionist Republican in 2012? They're idiots. Plain and simple. The dumbest voters out there.

Because if you're whoring yourself out for votes and not actually voting the issues, you're a tool. And that's exactly what they do. They don't vote the issues or they wouldn't be so erratic in their style. You can't vote for a Republican if you care about a set core of issues they spend a lifetime fighting against. You can't vote for a Democrat if you care about a set of core issues they spent a lifetime fighting against.

So they're openly admitting those issues aren't important to them. That's where they turn to pathetic reasons to vote for a candidate. In 2000, it was because Al Gore was a stiff and boring and Bush was the guy you could have a beer with. What will it be in 2012? Pres. Obama is just too elitist! We need a average 'merican as president!

They look at elections as nothing more than beauty pageants.

Pathetic.

/rant

[leftynyc]

20. That's not true

The ones I know are truly moderate (many were Rockefeller republicans before the religious right got hold of the pubs). Fiscal conservatives and social liberals. The vote candidates, not party.

[FrenchieCat]

4. So Kewl!

I say...let's get rid of him!
He's too much damn trouble anyways!

[rpannier]

12. According to Crooks and Liars the poll has a margin of error of 7

Which makes it a statistically invalid poll (+ or - 5 is the outer limit)

My favorite poll is still a Fox poll about 5 years ago that had a plus/minus of 17

[Submariner]

6. Most Independents are nothing more than republicans too embarrassed

to admit they are the right wing assholes that voted for the Bush/Cheney junta that lost the 2 wars they lost in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[center rising]

7. Wrong!!!

If it weren't for Independents, Mc.Cain would be president now.

[bluestateguy]

8. The subsample that you refer to has a +/- 7% margin of error

Making it pretty much worthless.

[FrenchieCat]

9. Not to poster.

Serves the purpose just right....and the Corporate poll takers know that well.

Watch this poll make the news, without nary a mention on the margin of error.
That how polls are used as propaganda to perpetuate big lies...

That's why the "news" kept repeating an entire year prior to the midterms that
Democrats were going to lose big....over and over and over again. It did the trick.

[Tx4obama]

13. Even better news is the Bloomberg poll: 51/43

Bloomberg 3/4 - 3/7
Approve 51
Disapp. 43

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html

[FrenchieCat]

14. But that doesn't fit well with the propaganda meme we are supposed to

buy into. So no.....just that Reuter poll is the measurement of somebody's
selling of their "truth".

[Tx4obama]

16. LOL ;) n/t

[rpannier]

15. Taking all the polls together he's syill up by 1

And I'm sure those polls together have a better plus/minus than 7

[bluestateguy]

21. which must mean he has improved his standing with Democrats

and all of the Democratic critics have migrated here, to DU.