UPDATED: So much for Obama's "falling poll numbers"
April 26, 2010 10:45 am ET by Eric Boehlert
Boy, Obama's approval rating just continues to take a beating, right? That storyline must be true because the press has been telling us about his "falling poll numbers" since late last summer.
From The New York Times, December 19, 2009 [emphasis added]:
After weeks of frustrating delays and falling poll numbers, Mr. Obama decided to take what he could get, declare victory and claim momentum on some of the administration's biggest priorities, even if the details did not always match the lofty vision that underlined them.
Washington Post, January 19:
On Wednesday one year will have passed since President Obama's inauguration. Much of the tidal wave of assessments has been negative: Falling poll numbers. Unfulfilled promises.
The Weekly Standard, April 26th edition:
The other factor in play is plummeting plummeting poll numbers... White House reporters tend to see falling poll numbers as a sign of incompetence, if not a character flaw.
So it must be true, right? Not quite.
-Obama's Gallup poll rating on Aug. 28, 2009: 50 percent.
-Obama's Gallup poll rating on April 24, 2010: 50 percent.
Look out below!!! Over the span of eight months, Obama's approval rating is exactly where it started. (And it never really budged.)
UPDATED: Right on cue! Conservative blogger Ed Morrissey today:
Obama won’t top this [2010] ticket, and with his approval ratings heading steadily south, it’s questionable whether he would help or hurt the national Democratic ticket anyway.'
Versus
Global temp rises over a 15-year span, but w/in the margin of error--"Proof there's no global warming!"
Both from the same folks.
I've never trusted a president too popular with one side or the other. 50 percent approval is pretty darn good considering what the administration has been able to accomplish up to this point, even with the ever growing wall of dumb placed in the way by the republicans and their mouthpieces.
Now turn them sideways, facing northeast . .
Turn them upside down again - TWICE
Subtract 3, Add 6 and Subtract 3 . .
Now you will have Mr. Obama's correct approval rating . .
[eyeball roll]
I love to see people claim that his poll numbers are plummeting. It gives me yet another excuse to expose the truth - even though they will ignore any fact that does not support their premise.