Obama Still in Charge and Popular Despite Week of GOP Attacks
Pollster John Zogby joins the Washington Whispers team to regularly update our new Obamameter. Each week, Zogby will size up Barack Obama on a specific issue, his popularity, or job performance and, based on his polling results and expert analysis, come up with a rating of between 1 and 100. In this week's Obamameter, Zogby analyzes Obama's standing amid Republican budget attacks. He gives Obama 89 out of 100.
"The chief weapons in President Obama's arsenal continue to be his personal popularity, his ability to communicate, and the Republicans' uncanny ability to shoot themselves in their heads and their feet. On Republican and conservative websites, Obama takes a beating on his stimulus plan. On Wall Street, he is accused of destroying wealth, and at last weekend's CPAC convention for conservatives, Rush Limbaugh professes his desire that the president fail. Advice to all three: You lost the election, you have very little credibility outside of your base, and you are helping to make the president look even better. Right now, Obama's popularity is 15 points higher than when Americans voted him into office, and only 26 percent of Americans think that the Republicans can do a good job. But Obama still needs bipartisanship and a firmer control over those partisan Dems in Congress. Rating: 89"
Last week's rating: 90.
John Zogby is president and CEO of Zogby International, a public opinion, research, and business solutions firm with experience working in more than 70 countries around the globe. Founded and led by Zogby since 1984, Zogby International specializes in telephone, Internet, and face-to-face survey research and analysis for corporate, political, nonprofit, and governmental clients. The firm is headquartered in Utica, N.Y. John Zogby is also the author of The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream (Random House).
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Media Masters
It is true that since the media manufactured the Obama win in the first place they will distort the shifting sands of the swing voters going right again to hedge against a backlash.
Suck it, Zogby!
Zogby, you are a traitor, an idiot, and a fool. Anyone can see your poll is rigged and you're lying, as Limbaugh's rising ratings and the continued free-fall of your illegal alien Kenyan racist commie traitor usurper's popularity attests (not to mention the far more accurate Rasmussen polls, which have been running circles around you and your incompetent pollsters for years). How you and all the other Dhimmicrat traitors can have lived as long as you have with no brains, I do have to wonder. In any case, you won't live much longer, since your lefty propaganda mills are already falling prey to this 0bama slump and every last one of you is going to be fired.
Go back to the New York Slimes, or the Washington Compost or the Associated Presstitutes or whatever slimy hole you slithered out of, and tell your fellow traitors there that your blatant lies didn't work, that your fool Messiah is going straight to Hell, and that so are all you Leni Reifenstahl wannabes. Why the owners of this magazine and others like it would ever employ a parasite like you when you're clearly one of the ones to blame for bankrupting them will surely amuse and fascinate the many historians who'll be laying the blame for America's implosion squarely on you media whores and your whoring for these abominable mass-murderers and totalitarians so ironically referred to as Democrats. Out on the streets you go, you parasite, and may you develop pancreatic cancer!
PS: And the best of Tanzanian luck to you in finding even palliative care if you do: under your Satanic Messiah's new euphemistically-named "Health Care" system, probably the only prescription anyone will give you will be for a bottle of cyanide capsules.)
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