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Originally Posted by The Reaper
I thought so as well, but his poll numbers are holding well so far.
OTOH, the majority of pollsters cited over at realclearpolitics.com appear to be taking opinions from anyone who identifies themselves as "Americans", a few are using "Registered Voters", but the Rasmussen poll is the only one I have seen which consistently uses only "Likely Voters".
Not sure how significant this trend is, but while the rest of the Obama sycophants like the NYT, CBS, Gallup, etc. are calling a 30 point plus spread favoring Obama, the Rasmussen gap is down to single digits, and his negatives have gotten pretty high.
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I heard a pundit say the other day that job approval rating historically is a lagging indicator. The key indicator is the right track wrong direction numbers. If you look at those numbers right now he isn't doing nearly as well with the recent trend going against him, especially in the surveys done by the non partisan (Pew, Rassmussen, Gallup, etc) pollsters. While he still remains personally very popular that will change quickly if the people who view him favorably begin to believe that we aren't headed in the right direction.