Thursday, December 29, 2011

Media hearts pound for Obama prematurely, new polls out show he's back in the ice-cold basement

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12/28/11, "Is the Obama Boomlet Over?," Powerline, Hinderaker

"Over the last week or so, there has been a lot of news coverage of Barack Obama’s comeback in the polls....

After all that hype, it appears that the Obama boomlet may have been overrated. In the Gallup Poll, Obama has dropped back to 44/48. In Rasmussen’s Approval Index, Obama, after a week or so of slightly less gloomy numbers,

  • is back to an ice-cold -18:

Moreover, Rasmussen’s overall approve/disapprove numbers among registered voters are back to 45/54.

Putting all of that together, it appears that reality has reasserted itself: the economy continues to be lousy, and the Obama administration’s achievements continue to be pretty much nonexistent. So whatever minor improvement Obama

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Too bad. Girly-men like the Wall St. Journal editorial page and Rick Moran must be disappointed. ed.



via Instapundit, Rasmussen chart via Powerline

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