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Of polls and Presidents

Past, present and maybe future.  While I've been very busy over the last few days, among the items that piqued my interest were the results of several national polls; some surprising, others not so much.

Of course, the President's numbers have been looking bad lately.  Not only according to Rasmussen, perhaps the most accurate in the business, but also among other organizations who through methodology or ideological disposition which have yielded more amenable results for Mr. Obama in the past.  In fact, Obama's approval ratings are now solidly below 50% in most of the major national polls, see for yourself, here are the results for Quinnipiac, CNN, and Gallup; in fact CBS even has him at a flat 50%!  Of course, the result out of the White House has been true to form, with their spokes-tool Robert Gibbs damning the messengers instead:

“If I was a heart patient and Gallup was my EKG I’d visit my doctor,” Gibbs said. “If you look back I think five days ago we were, there was an 11 point spread, now there’s a one point spread.”

Gibbs continued, “you know, I mean I’m sure a six year old with a crayon could do something not unlike that. I don’t put a lot of stake in, never have, in the EKG that is the daily Gallup trend. I don’t pay a lot of attention to meaninglessness.”

Typical...

But perhaps what is most interesting, and suprising really, are a couple of results that compare the Presidents to other prominent national politicians.  When asked to choose between the current President and his predecessor, Obama, the messianic hope of all mankind, only out polled BusHitler!, the scourge of all enlightened Niebuhr reading, pants-crease-admiring, thinking Americans by a scant 6 points! And in what must be a sign of a coming electoral apocalypse for the far left Democrats, the difference in public approval of Obama and Palin is now 1 point; inside the error margin.

Now that's Change! that I can believe in.

Rocketman