Obama’s Dropping
California Conservative — ... Now Scott Rasmussen and Doug Schoen have written an op-ed in this morning’s WSJ that takes a rather good analytical look at President Obama’s dropping popularity. ...

Slip Sliding Away
Blue Crab Boulevard — ... Douglas Schoen and Scott Rasmussen, writing at the Wall Street Journal , look at Obama’s poll numbers and at the attitudes of Americans toward their government. The data should be giving pause to Obama and the Democrats in general. It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama’s high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to ...

Obama Poll Numbers Are Falling Fast
Flopping Aces — ... Polling data show that Mr. Obama’s approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001. Rasmussen Reports data shows that Mr. Obama’s net presidential approval rating — which is calculated by subtracting the number who strongly disapprove from the number who strongly approve — is just six, his lowest rating to date. ...

Heh: Obama Polls Numbers Below Where Bush's Were in 2001
JammieWearingFool — For all the propping up by the media, for all the slavish fawning from Hollywood, the left and the nonstop slobbering ovaer Obama, it's all going down the tubes. He's less popular than George W. Bush was at the same juncture of his presidency eight years ago. And don't forget that was coming off the Florida recount after Al Gore tried to steal the presidency. It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama's high levels of popularity , and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his ...

Obama Cratering
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] Though his media fans tell us incessantly that he is a uniquely popular president, nearly 60 million Americans voted against Obama (i.e., more than had ever voted for any presidential candidate in U.S. history other than President Bush in 2004), and the professional pollsters apparently have a very different take on America's reaction to "change." Here's the opening exceprt of what Douglas Schoen and Scott Rasmussen write in today's WSJ: It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama's high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these ...

Barack Obama Is Less Popular Than George W. Bush
Right Soup — ... Cue Chicken Little. Barack Obama’s ratings are falling hard and fast. So much, in fact, that Obama is currently less popular than George W. Bush was when he was at the same stage after taking office. ...

Inside the Numbers [Dan Collins]
protein wisdom — ... , this article from the WSJ : It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama’s high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express increasingly significant doubts about his initiatives, and most likely support a different agenda and different policies from those that the Obama administration has advanced. Polling data show ...

WSJ
Sister Toldjah — Obama’s Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth

Finger To The Breeze
Jules Crittenden — ... . Clinton admin windsock Schoen and pollster Rasmussen at WSJ  describe “a substantial degree of polarization so early in the administration” and a “decidely negative” trend in support for his performance and his proposals. It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama’s high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express ...

The Man Who Would Be King Starts to Bleed
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Well, well, well. Now that Captain Cowpatty’s manure is starting to stink up the place and the American people have decided it is starting to smell a hell of a lot like socialism, his poll numbers are dropping. ...

DOUGLAS SCHOEN AND SCOTT RASMUSSEN: Obama’s Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth….
Instapundit — DOUGLAS SCHOEN AND SCOTT RASMUSSEN: Obama’s Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth.

Down to Earth
Ace of Spades HQ — Down to Earth Turns out Obama's mortal, after all . It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama's high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express increasingly significant doubts about his initiatives, and most likely support a different agenda and different policies from those that the Obama administration has ...

Obama Approval Dropping?
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Pollsters Doug Schoen and Scott Rasmussen argue in the Wall Street Journal that it's wrong to compare President Obama's approval rates to those of former President Bush just six or twelve months ago. They say the better comparison is to other presidents early in their terms. ...

"The End Is Near!"
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — ... Then there is President Obama. Douglas Schoen and Scott Rasmussen write in today's WSJ: (via NRO) ...

Obama's popularity 'falling to earth'
Hyscience — Via the Wall Street Journal - Obama;s poll numbers are below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001: [...] Overall, Rasmussen Reports shows a 56%-43% approval, with a third strongly disapproving of the president's performance. This is a substantial degree of polarization so early in the administration. Mr. Obama has lost virtually all of his Republican support and a good part of his Independent support, and the trend is decidedly negative. A detailed examination of presidential popularity after 50 days on the job similarly ...

The Man who Fell to Earth from the Sky
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... When critics of Obama administration policy speak to public skepticism, Obama apologists point to his approval numbers in various polls.  One of those pollsters now says not to pay as much attention to the general approval number, but the motion in the underlying numbers.  Douglas Schoen and Scott Rasmussen explain that Obama’s support has quickly declined to just his own party, and even that may be at risk: It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama’s high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels ...

Leading conservative lawmaker: Obama's owned economy since Jan. 20
News — ... plans promoted by the administration and Democratic leaders in Congress. To boot, some pollsters say that the American people are beginning to saddle the president with blame for the country's current economic circumstances. "While voters blame Republicans for the lack of bipartisanship in Washington, the fact is that they do not believe Mr. Obama has made any progress in improving the impulse towards cooperation between the two parties," pollsters Douglas Schoen and Scott Rasmussen wrote in Friday's Wall Street Journal . "Further, nearly half of voters say that politics in ...

Carol Platt Liebau: Falling to Earth
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — A remarkable piece in the Wall Street Journal from Doug Schoen and Scott Rasmussen must be very troubling to the Obama administration. It reveals that there are widespread doubts and misgivings about President Obama's policies and initiatives -- and significant disagreement with the left wing ideology underlying them. Despite the media's continued emphasis on Obama's supposed "widespread support," Schoen and Rasmussen note that, in fact, Mr. Obama's approval rate is "below George W. Bush in an analogous period in 2001." One last heartening piece of news? "Almost half [of ...

OMG Obama Less Popular Than George W Bush
The Jawa Report — March 13, 2009 OMG Obama Less Popular Than George W Bush That is if you look at the poll numbers for a similar time frame an the beginning of each administration. Its worth thinking about because liberal pundits often quote Barack Obama's popularity in polls as "proof" of the popularity of his policies. It appears what while the still like Barack just fine, that does not mean then like his policies all that much. Via WSJ: It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama's high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of ...

Obama's Approval Rating Starting to Slide Down to His Market Rating
Gateway Pundit — ... The Wall Street Journal reported today that Barack Obama's approval rating is dropping below where President Bush was at this time in 2001. ...

We like Obama, but not as much as we used to
Megan McArdle — In response to yesterday's comment that Obama has a lot of political capital to spend, a reader sends me this from the Wall Street Journal: ...

YOU CAN HEAR THE STRANGLED CRIES OF THE LEFT...
Dr. Sanity — But here's the facts: Douglas Schoen and Scott Rasmussen write in today's WSJ: It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama's high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express increasingly significant doubts about his initiatives, and most likely support a different agenda and different ...

Obama's approval sagging? Pollsters say
The Swamp — by Mark Silva Dough Schoen ran polls for Bill Clinton, So when he says President Barack Obama has a problem, the White House may want to listen. Schoen says so today, in an Op-Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal penned with Scott Rasmussen, pollster-president of Rasmussen Reports and a surveyor whose numbers tend to not favor Democrats. "Obama's poll numbers are falling to Earth,'' they report. The argument they make is that, while the president's approval ratings are high -- above 60 ...

the poll numbers are terrible for obama, if you just ignore the poll numbers`
skippy the bush kangaroo — the hardly-ever-right wing's favorite pollster, scottie "weighted for republicans" rasmussen writes in today's wsj that obama's poll nubmbers are "falling to earth": ...

Gates of Vienna News Feed 3/13/2009
Gates of Vienna — ... Obama’s Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama’s high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration… Polling data show that Mr. Obama’s approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001. Rasmussen Reports data shows that Mr. Obama’s net presidential approval rating — which is calculated by ...

Links for 2009-03-13 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... and loans aimed at closing the state's $40 billion budget deficit will fall short by $8 billion because the state's economy is continuing to falter. "Unfortunately, the state's economic and revenue outlook continues to deteriorate," the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) said in a review of the package, which covered the remainder of this fiscal year and all of the next. +++++++ With new taxes state revenues will decline. Kind of a no brainer. Shocking Revelation: Obama's Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth - Below Booooooosshhhh ...

links for 2009-03-14
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —

Barcepundit (English edition) — ... FALLING TO EARTH: : It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama's high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express increasingly significant doubts about his initiatives, and most likely support a different agenda and different policies from those that the Obama administration has ...

Musings Over Morning Coffee
Daily Kos — Nate Silver answers Scott Rasmussen and Doug Schoen's WSJ piece about Obama's current approval ratings. Rasmussen and Schoen say: It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama's high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express increasingly significant doubts about his initiatives, and most ...

Dissecting Leftism — ... Obama's Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth: "It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama's high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express increasingly significant doubts about his initiatives, and most likely support a different agenda and different policies from those that the Obama administration has advanced. ...

Nate Silver Expains It All
Balloon Juice — I glanced over that WSJ piece by Scott Rasmussen yesterday, and then I looked at the gallup poll numbers, which seem to me to be remarkably steady, and then I looked at the aggregate numbers at pollster.com, and the first thing I thought was that if you take out the Rasmussen outliers, this looks relatively stable. Today I see that Nate has gone through and explained what I already knew- Obama’s numbers aren’t crashing to earth as some are claiming. At any rate, as a general rule I just have no faith in ...

The Incredible Shrinking President
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — When reading this , bear in mind that Doug Schoen conducted polling for Bill Clinton. This isn't just "wingnuts" talking: It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama's high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express increasingly significant doubts about his initiatives, and most likely support a different agenda and ...

Searching for a Silver Lining
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Yesterday the Journal published a piece by pollsters Scott Rasmussen and Doug Schoen examining the decline in Obama's approval rating since his inauguration. They write: ...

Their Land of Confusion
BlueOregon — ... I find it interesting that the party continues to push talk show hosts to the fore at these events. I understand the need to have star-power as a draw for a fundraiser. But when the stars in the party are still the very folks who've led the way down the primrose path, then its apparent that there's a long way to go before a course correction is in the offing. There really ought to be more to talk about than machinations involving pretend sinking approval ratings for Obama, too (Obama's ratings have remained ...

Economic Uncertainty Drives Obama's Poll Numbers Lower Than George W. Bush's
Politics Daily — ... In an article in Friday's Wall Street Journal, Democratic pollster Douglas E. Schoen and independent pollster Scott Rasmussen analyze President Barack Obama's recent polling numbers and conclude that the new Administration is quickly polarizing America. The surprising results show that President Obama's net approval rating is actually lower than President George W. Bush's at the same point in his presidency. ...

Obama's House of Mirrors
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — It's no wonder Obama supporters are jumping ship, one day he's saying "buy American", the next day he's retracting it. Before the election he vowed to cut the budget, now he's spending a generation of wealth at a time. He said he would shut down Gitmo and end the war, he changed some words, pushed out dates a year, and expanded the war by 30,000 troops. Before the election he was pro-gun, now he's anti-gun. He said he was for stopping domestic spying before he was against it. He even swore ...

Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — ... or less? That would be a holy cow game-changer. Nicholas Kristof: This pork pathogen connection is scary. Seventy percent of all antibiotics in the United States go to healthy livestock, according to a careful study by the Union of Concerned Scientists — and that’s one reason we’re seeing the rise of pathogens that defy antibiotics. Mark Blumenthal on Scott Rasmussen and Doug Schoen in the WSJ claiming to be non-partisan: There is also a place for partisan ...

Tracking: 56 percent job approval for Obama
News — ... . Rasmussen focuses its approval rating reporting on what they call an approval index; subtracting those that strongly disapprove from those that strong approve. According to their trend chart, that index has narrowed and for the past nine days has been in single digits. [image] Scott Rasmussen and Doug Schoen argued in the Wall Street Journal on Friday that Obama's polling numbers are dropping and, essentially, his honeymoon is over. That idea has become regular talking point on the right, who are saying Obama remains personally popular but his policies are less so. What do ...

Obama’s Second Verse: Same As The First
Patterico's Pontifications — ... Beating the “Party of ‘No’” drum has not stopped Pres. Obama’s approval numbers from dropping below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001.  Nor has it stopped the establishment — now including ...

Welcome to Post-Partisanship
Sound Politics — ... , just as critics warned. And just as obvious, Republicans will clearly need to produce budget alternatives once Congress actually takes up the debate in the coming weeks.. Meanwhile, the aura of post-partisanship should be rapidly fading, even for those innocent (or foolish) enough to believe it in the first place. Proof : While voters blame Republicans for the lack of bipartisanship in Washington, the fact is that they do not believe Mr. Obama has made any progress in improving the impulse towards cooperation between the two parties. It's not as if that last point is going ...

Forcing Obama’s Hand on Guantanamo
Pajamas Media — ... are looking for openings wherever they can find them. The monstrous $3.6B budget, the Obama administration’s proposal to limit deductibility of charitable donations, the equally appalling proposal to charge veterans’ own insurance for service related injuries and the series of ethically hobbled appointees have given them an array of choices. Emboldened by an increase in the number of Democrats willing to take issue with the president’s gargantuan tax and spending plans and an erosion in Obama’s poll numbers , Republicans are increasingly willing to target ...

The Price to Be Paid by Greedy Bureauweenies
Moonbattery — Remember New York Governor David Paterson's preposterously greedy $121.1 billion tax plan, whereby he planned to raises taxes on soda, beer, iTunes, taxi rides, movies, et cetera ad nauseam? Not long before releasing the plan, his approval rating was 51%. Now it's at 26% and falling fast. In related news… Polling data show that Mr. Obama's approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001. Rasmussen Reports data shows that Mr. Obama's net presidential approval ...

*Gulp* Obama Approval Index Down to 4 Points
Gateway Pundit — ... Poll for Saturday shows that 36% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-two percent (32%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +4 (see trends). The number of Americans who believe government spending will rise during the Obama years has increased significantly in recent months. Going... Going... Barack Obama's approval rating has even dropped below where President Bush was at this time in 2001. So much for the ...

Conservative Dreamin'
Preemptive Karma — ... Contrary to Scott "Chicken Little" Rasmussen's recent co-authorship of an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal's notoriously conservative editorial section claiming that Obama's Poll Numbers Are Falling , in fact, as the newly web-only Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports: ...

Obama's Approval Numbers: Dropping like a lead brick
The Discerning Texan — ... Poll for Saturday shows that 36% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-two percent (32%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +4 (see trends). The number of Americans who believe government spending will rise during the Obama years has increased significantly in recent months. Going... Going... Barack Obama's approval rating has even dropped below where President Bush was at this time in 2001. So much for the ...

Beware Of Flawed Polling (Guest Voice)
The Moderate Voice — ... The 13 March, 2009, op-ed by Doug Schoen and Scott Rasmussen is just another indication of why one should beware of anything written in those sections. Both authors are pollsters, and should therefore know better, but they didn’t provide full cross-tabs, sampling information, fielding dates or questionnaires for the polls they cite, and their analysis meanders back and forth between different polls. It is impossible to take any of the claims in this article completely seriously on their own merits. ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... last qualification certainly sounds true. So does the assertion that there's a gulf between the president's popularity and the popularity of his programs. Messrs. Schoen and Rasmussen had 83% of respondents saying his programs will not work, 82% saying they're worried about the deficit, 78% worried about inflation, and 69% worried about the increasing role of the government in the economy. Er, no. Messrs. Schoen and Rasmussen did not say "will not work." Here's what they said (again, emphasis mine): Recent Gallup data echo these concerns. That ...

The Ongoing Misread of Obama's Poll Numbers
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — ... shy of other new presidents. Jimmy Carter and John Kennedy had more than seven out of 10 Americans behind them at the close of their first February in office. The point was then, chill out on the Obama hyperbole. It was not true to fact. Ironically, I suspect Obama's strategic circle now wishes they helped tamp down that early hyperbole. A couple weeks later, in mid-March, pollsters Doug Schoen and Scott Rasmussen reiterated the point in a Wall Street Journal column headlined: " Obama's Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth ." A few days later, I led a ...

Susan J. Demas: The Republican Death March on Health Care
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Right now, Republicans are feeling pretty good about themselves. President Obama's poll numbers have tumbled, health care reform has withered and raucous town hall protests have been even better summer teevee than blood-bathed shark attacks. The Politico is forecasting double-digit Democratic losses in the U.S. House next year and the GOP is primed to pick up several key governorships (perhaps one in Michigan). The president has overplayed his liberal hand and now everything will return as it was, with Republicans rightly ...