He's finally done it.
President Barack Hussein Obama, who is the bane of existence to conservatives and a committed contingent of the Left, has managed to flummox one of the oldest and most respected polling organizations in America.
Founded in 1958 by George Gallup, "the Gallup Organization, known primarily as Gallup, provides a variety of management consulting, human resources and statistical research services. It has over 40 offices in 27 countries. World headquarters are in Washington, D.C. Operational headquarters are in Omaha, Nebraska. Its current Chairman and CEO is Jim Clifton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
The organization had been functioning and prospering until it met its Waterloo: President Barack Obama.
The Editor-in-Chief of the Gallup poll explains:
Compared with other recent presidents, President Obama's approval numbers are "overperforming," given the struggling economy and Americans' low levels of satisfaction with the direction of the country, says Frank Newport, editor in chief of the Gallup Poll.
The US unemployment rate rose to 9.2 percent in June, the government reported earlier this month. And a Gallup poll conducted July 7-10 found that just 16 percent of Americans expressed satisfaction with the way things are going in the country – the lowest figure in two years. Still, Mr. Obama posted a 45 percent approval rating in the USA Today/Gallup poll conducted July 15-17.
At a Monitor-sponsored breakfast for reporters Tuesday, Mr. Newport compared Obama's approval ratings with those of President Reagan starting in 1981 and President Clinton starting in 1993. Both of the presidents were dealing with with troubled economies.
"Looking at history, particularly Clinton and Reagan, it is somewhat surprising that [Obama] has never yet fallen into the 30 percent range in our approval rating," Newport said. "And yet both Reagan and Clinton, in their first terms when the economy was perceived as bad ... both fell into the 30s."
Newport noted, "Satisfaction with the way things are going is ... correlated with economic perceptions fairly strongly." At the same time, Obama "is overperforming. Based on where every president has been, his approval rating now is higher than we would predict it to be based on" how satisfied American adults say they are.
http://www.csmonitor.com/...
Of course, this has to stop if the Republic is going to function as it should. If the President continues to disrupt the narrative put forth by the Right, a committed few on the Left and the media, then we're not going to have the necessary horserace we need going into a Presidential election.
So consider this an open letter to you Mr. President. For the sake of Gallup, our country and your critics who are sure that you are going to lose in 2012, because you have socialist tendencies/lost your base/hired Tim Geithner/threw Elizabeth Warren under a corporate bus/manufactured the debt ceiling crisis/do not care about Americans out of work--for the sake of all of them please stop being so appealing and Presidential.
UPDATE:
Oh bullshit.
Your diary is about one thing, the glory of Barack Obama.
You want to really round out the discussion....
Let's see you update your diary with this.
Barack Obama does not lead Mitt Romney in PPP's monthly national poll on the 2012 Presidential race. Romney has now pulled into a tie with the President at 45%
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But you don't have the fucking stones to do that, now do you?
http://www.dailykos.com/...
There we go.
I hope that for those focused on stone ownership, this update has satisfied that unique longing and I hope that this rounds out the discussion even further than the diverse viewpoints and passionate positions advanced by the commenters in this thread.