Barack Obama

President Obama’s Incredible Comeback

By Adam Sorensen | @adamsorensen | December 20, 2010 | +

“Obama Rebounding” trumpets Politico at the news the president’s job approval-disapproval rating has reached an even 48-48 percent split in the latest CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll. Their proof for this dramatic “comeback in the eyes of the American people?”

The disapproval number is the lowest it’s been since May, when it was 46 percent in the same poll. His disapproval rating reached as high as 54 percent in September and clocked in at 50 percent in November.

One wild swing barely outside the margin of error in just seven months? Does this mean Obama’s reelection is a foregone conclusion? The dawning of a new era of Democratic hegemony? Or is it maybe just meaningless statistical noise totally within the normal range of variance over a period of time? Let’s go to the overall average since May:

Let’s chalk it up to a slow news day.

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  • grape_crush

    Let’s chalk it up to a slow news day.

    Thanks for holding the fort, Adam.

  • stuartzechman

    Actually, yes. Thanks, Adam Sorensen.

  • stuartzechman

    “Let’s chalk it up to a slow news day.”
    .
    Let’s chalk it up to a media outlet who has successfully identified a majority segment of their audience as partisan political operatives and public relations shills.

  • gysgt213

    Is this from Wikileaks?

  • deconstructiva

    Thanks, Adam. Slow days are good, enjoy ‘em. At least a slow day can give you a chance to catch up and ponder other topics …like how to create jobs (as suggested earlier, but I digress). But at least we get to enjoy a slow day …while Asia watches both Koreas play pattycakes and Europe is buried in snow (and debt).

  • http://forgottenlord.livejournal.com forgottenlord

    I was expecting Obama’s numbers to go up – he got something done…in a relatively short time frame. Not that this poll is outside the margin, but I wouldn’t be shocked to find a small trend into mildly better territory (2-4 points) going into January. Not exactly comeback territory, though – there’s 20 months to decide that still.

  • http://forgottenlord.livejournal.com forgottenlord

    North Korea blinked, that problem’s over.

  • Paul-no not that one

    Politico trumpets bs?
    .
    Lets chalk it up to a normal news day.

  • bill0711

    Can we also agree Politico’s earlier Obama is politically at death’s door, liberals in revolt meme was also a teensy bit overdone?

  • apr2563

    POLITICO said it! It must be true and used as a pundit talking point. The “comeback” was all over pundocracy this weekend, from Baltz to Krauthammer.
    .
    What is it? Is their some sort of receiver planted in the Villager’s necks that is programmed to have them respond to directives from certain outlets. They then carry forth the daily meme, talking point, conventional wisdom to reinforce each other. The echo chamber reverberates.
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    I stopped watching the Sunday talk shows sometime ago. It was like watching a program with the same guests every week, with the same point of view. That program was then repeated on several other networks.

  • http://forgottenlord.livejournal.com forgottenlord

    Don’t you know, the media collectively suffers from “Squirrel!” syndrome.

  • sasquatch08

    “Or is it maybe just meaningless statistical noise totally within the normal range of variance over a period of time?”
    .
    The answer to this question is: yes.

  • gwbc

    perhaps because the American public has had a chance to see the GOP in action and the antics of McConnell, Kyl, and especially John McCain are not pretty , and that is why a recent poll showed Americans have more confidence in Obama than the GOP.

  • sacredh

    It hasn’t even been 7 weeks since the election and it’s possible that some of those people that thought the republicans were the answer have changed their minds again. It’s fine and dandy to be an independent, but to me at least, being an independent just means that you can’t make up your f**king mind.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Personally, I don’t care about the horse race of politics.

    I care about the policies.

    Sooner or later the voters will or are beginning to say, “Oh, NO! It’s like we elected an entire congress filled with George W Bush! ”

    It is starting to happen.

    At least it’s not like 1994 when both houses went. At least half of the American voters can remember what 2000 until 2006 was like.

    And people are very slowly warming up to our very, very conservative health care system.

    That is bigger news to me.

    Maybe when Obama wins in 2012 Democrats can retake congress and put the public option in…. but probably not.

  • queencersei

    Two years is an eternity in politics. Trying to glean what might happen in two years and how people will vote based on polling done today is totally meaningless. I know it has been a slow news day but sheesh.

  • liberalmeltdown

    You are a big damn liar.

  • liberalmeltdown

    As you can see the extreme liberals here HATE this story. So, Obama picked up points in polls. They want their agenda, and would prefer that the government just put on storm trooper uniforms and kick your doors in and MAKE you conform. They are screaming for reform, and you people hate them. They hate you.
    .
    Ain’t democracy wonderful?
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    Bye, bye loser liberal extemists. Now go break some windows…

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “You are a big damn liar.”
    .
    Oh, no.
    .
    Psychiatric meltdown is in one of his psychotic states where he believes that he can read minds. If I am not mistaken, he is now saying that he can read my mind and say that I do care about the horse race of politics.
    .
    Either that or he has a delusion that the Democrats didn’t keep congress.
    .
    In either case, I hope the orderlies put meltdown to bed. Politics is too exciting for him.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “As you can see the extreme liberals here HATE this story.”
    .
    Obama gains ground against the Republicans and liberals hate this?
    .

    “They want their agenda, and would prefer that the government just put on storm trooper uniforms and kick your doors in and MAKE you conform.”
    .
    Storm troopers?
    .
    Are getting confused between James Earl Jones as Darth Vader and the president?
    .
    Do you think John McCain is Luke Skywalker?
    .
    Watching movies late at night are not good for you Meltdown. Maybe you should stick to something like Snow White and the Seven Dwarf or just Fox News for your happy fiction.

  • http://2thirdsrocks.wordpress.com 2thirdsrocks

    A CNN poll? Funny. Slow news day indeed.

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