Obama’s Florida approval numbers — which poll to believe?
by George Bennett | December 12th, 2011
Is Obama under water or not in Florida?
The Marist survey of 2,119 registered Florida voters, conducted Dec. 4-7, shows 46 percent approving of the job Obama is doing as president, with 45 percent disapproving — essentially a tie given the poll’s 2.1 percent margin of error. That’s an improvement from October, when the same poll found 41 percent approving and 49 percent disapproving.
Quinnipiac University’s polls are bleaker for Obama. A Nov. 28-Dec. 5 Quinnipiac poll of 1,226 Florida voters shows only 41 percent approving of the way Obama is handling his job, with 54 percent disapproving. That’s essentially unchanged from early November, when Quinnipiac found Obama with a 41 percent approval score and 52 percent disapproval.
Both the latest Quinnipiac and Marist polls show Newt Gingrich with a double-digit lead in Florida’s Republican presidential primary race. Quinnipiac’s last poll had Gingrich at 35 percent and Mitt Romney at 22 percent among Republicans. Marist shows Gingrich with a 39-26 lead over Romney among Republican voters and a 42-27 edge among likey GOP voters. When leaners are pushed to support one candidate or another, Marist’s poll shows Gingrich with a 44-29 edge among likey GOP voters.
December 12th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Democrats dominate in S FL, almost! So any poll taken in S FL is slanted and definitely not reflective of the ENTIRE state.
It’s Central FL, not S FL which will determine who wins the Presidential election in 2012.
N FL cancels out S FL; Central FL is a mix and Debbie “Haiti is FL’s 68th County” Wasserman Schultz is trying to lasso the Puerto Rican vote in Central FL-negating other latinos.
December 12th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
1. ObamaCare-diluting healthcare of America, exempting federal employees from this healthcare, and cutting Medicare by billions.
2. Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi controlled Congress the last two yrs of Bush’s reign. DEMOCRATS controlled housing and budgets! Spend, spend, spend! Bush signed off stupidly!
3. Democrats TOTALLY controlled the US government the first 2 years of Obama’s Presidency(Pelosi, Reid, Obama). They passed all the spending bills and did not need republican votes.
4. What we suffer from today, high unemployment, poor economy, housing problems are a DIRECT RESULT OF DEMOCRAT GOVERNING
5. Obama’s programs and policies have failed!
6. NO to Obama in 2012, don’t allow him to appoint more lifetime judges or anymore Supremes.
December 12th, 2011 at 6:16 pm
I have to believe in my heart of hearts that the American people are more honest and intelligent than to vote for Obama again in 2012. If all of America would put country first over self interest the man would never win office again. However, unfortunately, some will cast their vote based on entitlements they get, unions they are in, opening up our border more by allowing more illegals into our country,and probably some will vote for him based on a guarantee from Obama that he will transfer taxpayer money to them for them to open another failed green energy company that will in turn give him campaign contributions. Me and my house will vote for the republican nominee. Four more years of this president and you can kiss this country goodbye.
December 12th, 2011 at 8:08 pm
PUMP OUT . . .
Food for thought . . .
This puts it into a much better perspective and is the same for many equally corrupted countries in Europe.
Why the U.S. was downgraded:
* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000
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Let’s now simplify, remove 8 zeros and imagine it’s a household budget:
* Annual family income: $21,700
* Money the family spent: $38,200
* New debt on the credit card: $16,500
* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
* Total budget cuts: $385
Got It?
Okay, now Lesson # 2:
Here’s another way to look at the Debt Ceiling:
Let’s say, You come home from work and find there has been a sewer backup in your neighborhood, and your home has sewage all the way up to your ceilings.
What do you think you should do — raise the ceilings, or pump out the chit?
Your obvious choice, dear friends is coming in Nov. 2012.
December 12th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
@ Same ole (lying sack of chit)& voter 2012.
Yeah, got it….your an idiot and don’t understand anything about our budget or debt. Yep got it!!!
BTW…we were downgraded because the GOP was playing childish games with the debt. Thats according to the organization that downgraded us idiot.
Stupid analogy. But anyone with any sense would FIX THE SEWER FIRST
God must love stupid people, he makes so many of them!!
December 12th, 2011 at 11:01 pm
RE: Voting in 2012
Here is a perfect example of the Republican party’s campaign strategy and I want to take a moment and show you.
First I know who the person is who posted it and by his own addmission he is deceptive and a liar. But lets look at the post.
1. His first point really makes no sense.I guess cutting medicare by billions would be great for the budget.
2. Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi controlled Congress the last two yrs of Bush’s reign. DEMOCRATS controlled housing and budgets!Spend, spend, spend! Bush signed off stupidly!
Here is where the deception begins. Dems. had a small majority but that is very different from control. yes, a few dems. voted with the GOP on Bush’s initiatives but most of the votes were Republican so you can’t blame the democrats alone. Cong. has nothing to do with housing so I would be interested to hear how they controlled it!! And , of course Bush signed his own initiatives.
3.Democrats TOTALLY controlled the US government the first 2 years of Obama’s Presidency(Pelosi, Reid, Obama). They passed all the spending bills and did not need republican votes.
This is an outright lie and the author knows it because it has been explained to him several times.
They had a majority in Congress but nothing near ” total control”. Especially in the Senate where the minority can block legislation.
And they did. The Republicans filibustered 70% of all proposed legislation. A historical record. Most of the 30% was bi-partisan bills that
are typically waved thru like small budget extensions for a certain dept. or agency. For those who don’t know, in the Senate they have more structured order. When a bill is brought to the floor for debate, a vote must be taken to end debate and bring it to a vote. This vote requires a three fifths majority to end debate(60 votes). To pass the bill requires a simple majority(51 votes). So the Dem. majority(53) has the votes to pass the bill but requires Rep. votes(7) to end debate and have a vote. Without those 7 votes the bill is ” Dead” in the Senate. So 1. A majority is far from control. 2. They could not pass anything without assistance from the Republicans.
The author of the post has been told this and that is why he added the line about ” they didn’t need Rep. votes” He knows its a lie.
Its like the Affordable care act and the Stimulus. Both those could not have been passed without the help of Republicans in the Senate.
They chose not to block these bills but to vote to end debate. Knowing when they did that the Democrats had the majority and the bill would be passed. When the vote to pass or fail was taken the Republicans then voted against it so the record would show they appeared to not support it. That way they could immediately turn around and begin attacking the President over them and the public never knowing they actually made these possible. Very deceptive!!
4 What we suffer from today, high unemployment, poor economy, housing problems are a DIRECT RESULT OF DEMOCRAT GOVERNING
Do I even have to go over this one. Everyone still remembers George Bush right? And the condition of the economy when Obama took office? That we are still trying to come back from. And the GOP in cong. blocking all efforts thus keeping the economy down.
5. Obama’s programs and policies have failed!
In order for something to fail you have to try it. The GOP has prevented that by obstructing all attempts in cong. Unfortunately we are not a dictatorship and there is little any president can do without co-operation from congress. You can’t claim they failed when you never allowed them to be attempted. Just another deceptive statement .
And this seems to be the campaign strategy. Just as I have shown here they are trying to bombard the American people with these lies and deceptive statements. The idea is if you say it enough times eventually some people will start to believe it. Regardless of who you vote for I hope you will get the facts for yourself and not be deceived and manipulated. I don’t like liars.
December 13th, 2011 at 5:34 pm
Mercy Sakes!
Such an overwhelming display of total emotion and raw invective that obviously skews occasional rational thoughts by Renegade.
Calm down, man . . . and get a grip before you pop a blood vessel.
Everything will be okay. Everything will be okay.
It’s not that important.