Polls Show No Political Backlash Against Obama After Flight 253 -- Even A Possible Improvement

No surprises here.

It was amusing to see Andrew Sullivan and the New York Times editorial page flip directly back into neoconservative mode at the slightest hint of a scawy tewwowist coming for their freedom fries. I give them three days before Maureen Dowd is sucking her thumb about Qatar's fearsome military might.

I think Hijinks is the wrong word- the word is spin.. Napolitano tried to spin the event - this is something that Bush administration did for 8 years..911 the worse terrorist attack on our soil Bush was in charge and yet i never heard any acknowlegement from Bush that his administration failed

Obama was honest and upfront with the American People - which is a breath of fresh air

Props to Obama on this one. He did exactly what he should have done.

Frankly, people take it as a given that things will run smoothly and will be mostly happy if they do. People are even happier when there's a problem, the party who is responsible acknowledges it and takes immediate action to fix it.

Customer service tactics frequently work well in politics as well, even though your 'customers' aren't paying you in dollars.

When a terrorist attack is successful I'm supposed to love the President, but when a terrorist attack fails I am supposed to get angry with the President?

Right wingers are weird.

Actually, I was watching the eye-witnesses on CNN. (Inforwars just happens to be the only ones still posting it. Wonder why?) I think a lot more witnesses are coming forth. Its same old shenanigans. Don't be afraid. The truth will not hurt you in the end.

Here is the CNN interview:

http://www.infowars.com/bombshell-eyewitness-revelations-confirmed-fbi-cover-up-of-flight-253-attack/

(Even if there is only one arm of the free press left, the truth is not dead)

If we can blame Obama for this, then me must blame Bush for 9/11.

I don't know about anybody else, but I'm relieved to have a president who doesn't turn the "OhNoes Terror Fear Meter" over to "Red/Kiss Your Ass Goodbye" every time there's a blip on the radar.

This was clearly, as the President said, a "systemic failure" which is basically that those who had information didn't share it properly. While it's now his administration, it seems clear that whatever policies that were put in place after the 911 were not sufficient or not inplemented. The investigation should clear up just what happened. It's the same way they tried to pin the FT Hood murderer on Obama when this guy was sending up red flags, during the Bush administration. And yes, the guy continue this troublesome behavior into this administration. The difference here is that the don't come out and say, blame Republicans for 911. If the situation was reversed, we all know what that outcome would be. Truely pathetic.

With all President Obama inherited, he has been the calm during the storm. Rational, logical, empathetic, and openly communicating the facts and next steps as he moves forward with each plan to resolve issues. We even get updates along the way.

What this does is make clear the obvious contrast to the past republican administration. And more clearly exposes the erratic, irrational, fearful, deceitful, behavior of the current republicans in office, which are not attributes most Americans seek or trust in a 'leader'.

As the economy improves in 2010 and more people are back to work, Obama's approval ratings will also improve. It's great to be safe and have affordable healthcare, but if you don't have a job or place to live, you are not going to be happy with your leadership.

The GOP is making the mistake with President Obama that they made with President Clinton! They are going overboard with their attacks! Soon it will get to the point where people are just going to start to say, you just hate the guy, it has nothing to do with policy! At that point they shutdown and stop listening to even the ligetimate constructive critisims of the President they might have! Sometime less is more! The GOP doesn't get that, they just hack away like the killer in so many horror movies!

It is not surprising. People are not stupid and they see thru "the sky is falling" mentality of the RepubliCONS. Don't you remember when they tried to nail and impeach Bill Clinton and Bill keep getting more popular.
There is no health care for stupidity and by the way that may explain why RepubliCONS are also against that.
You all a great new 2010 year!

If you don't use the blogs to further your knowledge, then you are just "tweeting" for nothing, nutjob. Instead, why don't U use UR cell and text something to someone who could care less...

And, by all means, as we celebrate another year, lets also continue to force wars on innocents, let the CIA hoax us again, blame two parties that are really just ONE party, and let the world, once again, experience the sickness that we have in store for them.

As long as nutjob can still "tweet".

Shouldn't you be in college or something?

As always, the Rasmussen Poll is dissed. The fact is, Gallup was not even close in the 2010 election. Rasmussen had it right to an error of under 1%! So you can poop on Rasmussen if you wish, but I take them seriously! I don't suspect them as much as I suspect weather data that might be dummied up to *prove* Global Warming! Gallup is fluff in comparison! (although they earn some respect for their initial pioneering spirit years ago, may they find it again!)

And the suprise you missed was this:

Although the author here will obviously dismiss this as not being important, the fact is, there *was* a large jump, just not in the numbers he chose to have us look at. As he correctly stated, "Today's Rasmussen poll is 46%-53%." But this is *overall* approval, where only "somewhat approve" is needed to needed to be in the approval category and there is no "somewhat disapprove" since that one tends to make the polls flaky since the whims can blow the "somewhats" around very quickly with no true meaning. That is all well and good to look at, but not very informative, I am afraid.

The real measure of political power is the "Approval Index" that Rasmussen uses. This one measures "Strong Approval" versus "Strong Disapproval" and is much more telling. The fact is, it is too early to see for sure if he has taken a real hit or not, because even this poll number very often can be volitile. However, it is alarming for anyone that wants Obama to have the Power to do anything, and despite what you think of the man, having a "lame duck" in the White House invites even more attacks from our enemies!

The problem is this: His numbers actually took a jump positive on the 28th and even was better then than on the 24th. If you look at apst pollings, this phenomenon is not surprising as the stress of Christmas actually seems to make people less negative after it is lifted. Ok, after that, there is a slow, but steady creep of negativity. It is not that more people are strongly disapproving of him as much as fewer people are no longer strongly approving of him. That second group is where his power comes from. IF he has enough strong approval, even an overall negative approval will not hamper him too much if he is still seen as a strong leader that you happen to disagree with on a point here or there. The problem for Obama is that he is being dissed on the International Level again and again and that erodes his image of being effective. This attack is undermining his local image as being unable to protect us.

It may not have any effect, and this trend may be spurious. Obama sure hopes so. The funny thing is, in this case, so do I. If it is not, then he really has been hurt politically by his adminstrations failures in keeping us safe! And honestly, I don't like Obama that much at all, but I like this even less, since it virtually invites more terrorist attacks if they know they are weakening our leadership!

A good link for those interested:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_history