Gallup: Obama Approval Rating Improving In Crucial States

[UrbScotty]

The data, taken from Gallup's polling from January 2011 to June of this year, charts the president's rating in all 50 states, using interviews with more than 90,000 American adults. While his national approval rating for this time period in the Gallup tracking poll is below 50%, the map shows an improving picture after the GOP victories of 2010, and much of that improvement in swing states.

From the report:

The president did receive a 50% or higher approval rating in a few more states during the first half of 2011 than he did in 2010 -- 16 compared with 12, along with the District of Columbia in both time periods. His approval rating crept back to the 50% level in Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota in the first part of 2011 after being below that level in those states in 2010.

Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Three states that the President almost certainly needs to win to make the electoral math work. Some other crucial states just below the fifty percent mark: Iowa at 49%, Pennsylvania at 48%, Florida at 47%, and southern Democratic beachheads Virginia and North Carolina are at 46%.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/08/gallup-obama-approval-rating-improving-in-crucial-states.php

[CakeGrrl]

1. Rec for the positive trend.

I think it'll help when the public gets a better look at the GOP crazy as the campaigns get going.

I hope they work on their messaging. They need to be unambiguous and not make any assumption that the average voter "gets it".

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. Ditto!

:thumbsup:

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

3. With "Dick" Perry signing on, it's going to be sheer entertainment on the Rethug side! n/t

[Vicar In A Tutu]

4. You just know he's going to pull some WWE style shit

I can just picture him on the campaign trail shaking and screaming like The Ultimate Warrior in his 80s pomp.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

5. It's going to be a major civil war in the Republican Party. Sit back and enjoy!! n/t

[UrbScotty]

6. Hopefully when people hear from Obama without the media's filters

in debates, at the convention, and on the trail, they will approve of him even more.

[Bluebear]

8. Ah, the media filter. I haven't heard that for a while.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. Considering you posted directly from GOP.com recently, you can't talk.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1665942&mesg_id=1665942

[shellgame26]

7. K&R

[Awsi Dooger]

10. That wouldn't hold up today, the stock plunge not reflected

January through June were good times, particularly May after the bin Laden news. Obama's re-elect favoritism on Intrade reached 70% in May. Last I checked tonight it's dropped to roughly 52%, the lowest level since January. Decline of several points in recent days.