Obama approval polls
Obama approval polls
Added 210 days ago on February 8th, 2010
Real Clear Politics publishes polls and columns. A major poll is Obama's approval rate amoung Americans. The Gallup Poll shows results that are outside of the norms and hard to account for.
In FEB Rasmussen & Gallup published the same poll over the same time Gallup had Obama's approval 5 points higher and his disapproval 13 points lower than Rasmussen. Today two new polls,on the same question, were released. Gallup's approval is 4 to 7 points higher and the disapproval is 4 points lower than these polls.
Gallup's results have consistently been better for Obama that all other polls. Questions are being asked how this can always happen without Gallup doing something to impact the poll results.


Added by: james2044
Votes: 100
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Is Gallup Polls "cooking the books" to support Obama?
Yes, the results are questionable
40%
Lean to yes
3%
Not sure
2%
Lean to no
32%
No, their sampling is different than the other polls
23%
Closed on March 10th, 2010
This is not a scientific survey, click here to learn more. Results may not total 100% due to rounding and voting descrepencies.
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Posted by: 945call
1:12pm, February 8th, 2010
Re: Obama approval polls
Gallup polls all Americans and Rasmussen polls only registered voters. That makes a big difference for democrats who get very high Black and Latino support, though many Blacks and Latinos don't vote regularly. That's why organizations like ACORN are so important for Democrats; they help increase the Black and Latino vote. They do very little work in poor white areas like Appalachia.
Posted by: Free
1:38pm, February 8th, 2010
Re: Obama approval polls
This has nothing to do with sampling. The methodology is standard one. The difference between the highest and lowest is 5 points which is not far off the 3 standard deviation. Also the poll results become closer as you look at the same dates.

Good Try, Gallup is a very reputable organization.
Posted by: james2044
2:17pm, February 8th, 2010
Re: Obama approval polls
Free,

If you follow the link, the polls are for the same time and for about the same number of people. Approval between Gallup & Rasumessen is 51 to 46, off by 5 and can be covered by you statement. However, disapprove is 54 to 41, a full 13 points. That has to be a sampling problem with one of the polls.
The two newest polls have disapprove at 47, 6 points different than Rasumessen. If we give Gallup 5 points on approval ......
The 4 to 13 point disserence on disapprove is questionable to say the least and dishonest at worst..
Posted by: james2044
2:18pm, February 8th, 2010
Re: Obama approval polls
945call
ACORN is umportant to the De mocrats for the voter fraud they do. That is why, Pelosi & Obama gave them so much tax money in the "stimlus".
Posted by: Free
6:07pm, February 8th, 2010
Re: Obama approval polls
Your findings are not accurate so I pasted the info, one week can make a difference and the largest gap is 5 points.

Democracy Corps (D) 2/2 - 2/4 805 LV 47 47 Tie
Marist 2/1 - 2/3 910 RV 44 47 -3
Rasmussen Reports 2/5 - 2/7 1500 LV 46 54 -8
Gallup 2/5 - 2/7 1547 A 51 41 +10
FOX News 2/2 - 2/3 900 RV 46 47 -1
Ipsos/McClatchy 1/28 - 1/31 1127 A 50 46 +4
NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl 1/23 - 1/25 800 A 50 44 +6
CNN/Opinion Research 1/22 - 1/24 1009 A 49 50 -1

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Posted by: james2044
6:20pm, February 8th, 2010
Re: Obama approval polls
Free,

Gallup has disapproval at 41 Rasumessen has it at 54, isn't that 13 points?

Gallup has approval at 51, the two new polls are 44 & 47, isn't that 4 to 7 points?

The four polls we are looking at are 3 days apart, not a week as you imply.
Posted by: 945call
2:51pm, February 9th, 2010
Re: Obama approval polls
Free, you clearly don't understand the polling process or statistics. Or, you just don't explain it well.
Posted by: james2044
3:44pm, February 9th, 2010
Re: Obama approval polls
This is the latest polls in question

Tuesday, February 09
Race/Topic (Click to Sort) Poll Results Spread
Generic Congressional Vote Rasmussen Reports Republicans 44, Democrats 36 Republicans +8
Generic Congressional Vote Gallup Republicans 45, Democrats 45 Tie
Monday, February 08
Race/Topic (Click to Sort) Poll Results Spread
President Obama Job Approval Gallup Approve 50, Disapprove 41 Approve +9
President Obama Job Approval Rasmussen Reports Approve 47, Disapprove 53 Disapprove +6
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