Obama's Approval - 50%

[kpete]

Poll: Rising economy boosts Obama’s standing on eve of the State of the Union

http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/01/19/National-Politics/Polling/release_384.xml
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-rising-economy-boosts-obamas-standing-on-eve-of-the-state-of-the-union/2015/01/18/e66a2f18-9f28-11e4-9f89-561284a573f8_story.html

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. If President Obama were to govern as an FDR Presidency, his approval rating would go even higher.

[MohRokTah]

3. FDR had an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress. eom

[jeff47]

13. Dixiecratic and Democratic congress.

The two are quite different.

[MohRokTah]

15. It still got the job done.

It wasn't "do nothing" until Truman.

[jeff47]

17. Depends on what you wanted done.

Reportedly, FDR wanted to work on civil rights and desegregation. And didn't, because he knew it would cost him the Dixiecrats.

[Art_from_Ark]

25. In 1956, the Dixiecrats went so far as to write the Southern Manifesto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Manifesto

Interestingly, the three Southern Democrats in Congress who refused to sign it were Albert Gore, Sr.; Estes Kefauver; and Lyndon Johnson. Also interesting was that all three eventually had connections with the vice presidency in some way-- Lyndon Johnson, of course, served as vice president, Albert Gore, Sr.'s son served as vice president, and Estes Kefauver was Adlai Stevenson's running mate in the 1956 election.

[JaneyVee]

16. We still have Dixiecrats.

[edhopper]

18. Just my opinion

But I felt if Obama had led like FDR from the beginning and taking on Wall Street and the Big Banks, he would still have a Dem Congress.
His embrace of Wall Street insiders allowed the anger they generated to be co-opted by the faux Tea Party movement.

[Dont call me Shirley]

21. So it was...

He could do as much FDR as executive action would allow him. Then there is the veto pen.

[Tarheel_Dem]

26. FDR had something else Obama doesn't....white skin, and the privelege that entails.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Bush was mid 30's at the same point and Congress is 10..... But that is not the media plan, the plan

is to try and convince Americans he does not really care much.

It is evil and it has to end, because the truth is not just what people believe, because lots of people believe in a white bearded God on a cloud in the sky..and it is still not the truth.

And not believing in the actual truth is dangerous, just ask the warming Earth.

[yeoman6987]

5. Which is why Bush lost the Senate and House

Obama lost the Senate due to low approval rates at a time that we needed them higher. Today his approval rating doesn't mean much to be honest except for bragging rights I suppose and that and a dollar won't get you much.

[Fred Sanders]

6. Obama lost the Senate? How did he manage that? His approval numbers were 3% on average less.

How can his approval numbers alone at election time be so pivotal, but now they mean nothing?

You are kind of contradicting yourself in the same breath, with respect.

The Senate was lost because Democrsts ran away from Obama, how is he supposed to be a populist when a major part of his own party runs away from him?

United we stand....

[yeoman6987]

7. Under 50 percent is not good for any President at election time 3 points or not.

[Fred Sanders]

8. Neither is a lying media.

[yeoman6987]

9. Well that doesn't help either

Although everyone knew that approval ratings were not great before the election.

[Fred Sanders]

12. Click on the 6 month chart:

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

42.0 on Election Day, 44.8 today.

His low approval number at election time was yet another media Big Lie to get Democratic candidates to run away..which the pathetic fools did.

[Tarheel_Dem]

27. Obama's critics conveniently omit the 24/7 FearBola; unaccompanied brown children at the border;

and Americans being beheaded on the teevee machine by the scary ISIS jihadists. Not to mention the unfriendly territories where the races were held this election cycle.

[Fred Sanders]

30. FEAR is what lost the election, pumped out desperately by the fucking GOP racist media that pumps

out FEAR as easily as they pump out lies.

[bhikkhu]

28. The senate was lost because...

its nice to be able to point fingers and cite our favorite beefs and narratives, but the vote totals were 20 million in favor of democrats.

We lost because of the odd circumstances of what seats were in play, and how the senate portions seats out to states regardless of size. It does suck, but it says less about what people think of Obama or policies than how the senate is designed.

[underpants]

4. Add at least 10

People like him and they are seeing that what are really half assed measures are working.

[Fred Sanders]

10. 10 people like him? Please go on.......

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. It needs to stay around 50% for the Democratic presidential candidate to remain favored in 016./NT

[n2doc]

14. The Wingnuts will ignore this one in favor of their 'preferred' polls

It just drives them even more insane to see so many people supporting the President.

[Ykcutnek]

19. It will jump to 55% when Americans see this Congress deny them tax breaks

so they can keep taxes on the rich low.

[Gothmog]

20. This is great news

[oneview]

22. So impressive! How many Presidents are at 50% at this point in their second terms?

Not too many, that's for sure!

[Major Hogwash]

23. In my house, President Obama's approval rating stands at 99.99%!!

And if he shakes my hand on Wednesday evening, it will hit 110%!!

Woo-hoo!!

Guess where the President will be the day after he delivers his State of the Union Speech tomorrow?
Yup, that's right . . right in my back yard, in little ol' Boise, Idaho!

President Obama must have used a dartboard to determine where to go to piss off the most conservatives in 1 state the day after he gives his speech before a Joint Session of Congress tomorrow night . . and Idaho was the bull's eye!

[Cha]

24. Right! All the others are just Woulda Shoulda Coulda.. this is the Reality.. not going back in

to FDR.. this is the President I Approve of.. President Barack Obama.

[Cha]

29. President Obama's Approval Rating around 50%! Good to go into the SOTU tomorrow Night!

Course this will piss off the haters. I laugh.

Mahalo kpete!