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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Gallup Poll: Obama's Fault?

Will Obama be held responsible in the mid-term elections if the estimates of 100 seat change occurs? Can he transform to bi-partisan support with the loss of control of Congress and the Senate by the Democrats? Ronald Reagan was able to win support of the voters a second mandate with a similar bad economy.

Barack Obama averaged 44.7% job approval during the seventh quarter of his presidency. His average approval rating has declined each quarter since he took office, falling by more than two percentage points in the most recent quarter to establish a new low.

Gallup Poll with Unemployment Rate October

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Distrust in Old U.S. Media Hits 57%

For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 57% who now say this is a record high by one percentage point. Article is here.


President Kennedy with Robert McNamara

The 43% of Americans who, in Gallup's annual Governance poll, conducted Sept. 13-16, 2010, express a great deal or fair amount of trust ties the record low, and is far worse than three prior Gallup readings on this measure from the 1970s.

Trust in the media is now slightly higher than the record-low trust in the legislative branch but lower than trust in the executive and judicial branches of government, even though trust in all three branches is down sharply this year. These findings also further confirm a separate Gallup poll that found little confidence in newspapers and television

specifically.

This does not bode well for the old media, they will have to make significant changes to win back the perception of fairness.

Fox is the most trusted television news network in the country, according to a new poll out Tuesday. A Public Policy Polling nationwide survey of 1,151 registered voters Jan. 18-19 found that 49 percent of Americans trusted Fox News, 10 percentage points more than any other network. Thirty-seven percent said they didn’t trust Fox, also the lowest level of distrust that any of the networks recorded.

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

GOP - 10 Point Lead

A new Gallup poll released Monday shows Republicans with a record 10-point edge over Democrats on the "generic ballot" test — the question of whether voters prefer a Democratic or Republican congressional candidate. It’s the largest GOP polling edge at this stage in the 68 years of the generic ballot poll.

The last refuge of a liberal- Charles Krauthammer

It is a measure of the corruption of liberal thought and the collapse of its self-confidence that, finding itself so widely repudiated, it resorts reflexively to the cheapest race-baiting (in a colorful variety of forms).

The Democrats are going to get beaten badly in November. Not just because the economy is ailing. And not just because Obama over-read his mandate in governing too far left. But because a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to those who dare oppose them.

In Canada, our wealthy Liberals are trying to block an organization in acquiring an equal fee structure in televised news because it does not share their bias. In Europe, Liberals were defeated at the polls.

Liberals are having a very difficult time accepting the General Election results from 2008. Many of them can't concede another 1-2% bump for the Conservative Party of Canada or another drop of 1-2% for their party.