CNN Poll: Obama at 55%

[impik]

Fifty-five percent of people questioned in the poll say they approve of how Obama's handling his duties in the White House, with 44 percent saying they disapprove.

"The 55 percent figure is seven points higher than in December and 13 points higher than his September mark," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "The president's approval rating has not been this high since November of 2009 in CNN polling."


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/24/cnn-poll-obama-approval-up-to-55-but-still-under-50-on-economy/

[HeroTwins]

1. my, my, my, look at that Country Pie!

[aaaaaa5a]

2. He's almost peaking to soon! NT

[FrenchieCat]

5. Well, we certainly can't wait till right prior to the 2012 election, can we?

:shrug:

[RichGirl]

7. Peaking indicates going up and down...

He's soaring...up, up and away!!! By 2012 his approval ratings will be so high that they won't even bother having an election!!

[DCKit]

3. On Sunday's McLaughlin Group, both Pat Buchanan and Monica Crowley....

said he'd never go over 53%. I honestly believed it would take more than 24 hours for them to be proven wrong.

Oops.

BTW, Elanor Clift - who is never afraid to tell Charles Krauthammer how wrong he is about EVERYTHING - predicted 55%.

[jenmito]

4. Holy cow! He's either at or above 50% in every poll! Even (R)asmussen has Obama

at 52% approval, the highest in THAT poll since 10/5/09!

[Thrill]

6. Thats an amazing number for a President

at this point in their Presidency. Especially considering one of the toughest times economically. Lets you the country likes the Man more than anything else in my opinion. Republicans better behave themselves tomorrow

[RichGirl]

8. He's an AMAZING president!!

[vaberella]

9. Has this ever happened before? Where a President went from 42% to 55% in a matter of weeks?! n/t

[Axrendale]

11. To my knowledge not usually without some kind of crisis occurring.

George W. Bush (may he burn in hell) managed in 2001 to go from some rather bad approval ratings to some startlingly high ones - but that was because of 9/11. His father, Bush Sr., performed a similarly dextrous act of improvement with his ratings in 1991 - but that was caused by the Gulf War.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both managed to work their poll numbers from being in the low 40s/high 30s after their parties suffered "shellackings" at the end of the second year of their presidencies, to rising up considerably - but this reversal of political fortune took place in both cases over a matter of months, touch and go a good bit of the way - nothing even resembling Obama's rather astonishing achievement in bouncing back so quickly from the nadir.

For the closest example that I can think of, we have to go back to 1961, when John F. Kennedy's poll numbers took a dip after the debacle of the Bay of Pigs, and yet he managed to get them back up in an astonishingly short space of time.

[impik]

12. And there isn't a real obvious reason for such jump

It's quite interesting.

[JCMach1]

13. People loved the lame duck session and his handling of the Tucson crisis

that is all.

But yeah, a pretty big deal.

[vaberella]

15. No...that still doesn't make sense. Unless the love of the lame duck is still maintained.

It's successes happened in early December----but has lasted him a month like this. The Tucson handle only seemed to have moved him up only about 2%.

[Major Hogwash]

16. Excellent analysis.

And I agree with it.

[stevenleser]

10. This is starting to get to territory where various Repug 2012 'hopefuls' announce they will not run

An incumbent above 55% is a bridge too high for anyone. I realize we are a ways out but absent a major event that moves the momentum in the other direction, we're in shoo-in territory.

Incumbents tend to get a popular vote that is about the same as their approval level.

[opihimoimoi]

14. KnR.....such is the Power of Obama the Healer / Dealer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB-whApXYXk&feature=related

Hieno,,,Lied der Deutschen

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