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Topic: Poll: 45% approve of Obama´s handling of the economy |
Poll: 45% approve of Obama´s handling of the economy
CBS News, by Sarah Dutton*
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Posted By:NorthernDog, 2/12/2013 8:03:50 AM
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| As President Barack Obama prepares for the first State of the Union Address of his second term, one which will primarily be focused on economic issues, fewer than half of Americans (45 percent) approve of how he´s handling the economy, while more (49 percent) disapprove. Overall, Mr. Obama is performing better with 52 percent of Americans now approving of the job he is doing as President, while 38 percent disapprove. Mr. Obama´s approval rating has remained fairly constant over the past year, though it rose as high as 57 percent in December. Only 12 percent of Republicans approve;
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Comments: *Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto, and Fred Backus As Hillary would say, What difference does it make?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Beca, 2/12/2013 8:06:12 AM (No. 9171572)
According to CBS news. Right.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
andyboy, 2/12/2013 8:15:37 AM (No. 9171583)
If 45% approve of Obama´s handling of the economy but 52% approve the job he is doing overall, does that mean that nearly 60% of Americans think Obama is doing a bang-up job on foreign policy?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Taylor1066, 2/12/2013 8:16:32 AM (No. 9171586)
What do you have to do to the numbers to make them come out this way?
On the other hands, the free stuff crowd has grown of late.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
neanderthal, 2/12/2013 8:28:52 AM (No. 9171597)
About half the people in the US have no investment, no interest, no skin in the game in the country. They really don´t care what happens wherever they are, they´ll just ride it down and when it crashes they will just go someplace else, hang out, get whatever they can and then move on. There are cultures in the world that have done this since the beginning of time. They have names. It´s how they operate. As long as they are less than half the voters, there´s a chance of survival. When they become the majority of voters...the host country will die.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
nonsense, 2/12/2013 8:29:03 AM (No. 9171598)
Don´t believe it, every American who is not part of the permanent political class or the elite media is suffering under the Misery of the O. economy. Boomtown is, of course, exempted.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
civilservant, 2/12/2013 8:34:50 AM (No. 9171609)
Every single comment on the article is mocking and full of disbelief.
I have only one question for those CBS followers........
Where were you BEFORE the election?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Northcross, 2/12/2013 8:45:51 AM (No. 9171630)
40% of the public will never say anything that might reflect badly on Obama, no matter what he does. If you throw those low information folks out of the poll, a more accurate figure among intelligent Americans would be that about 8% would approve of his handling of the economy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
melman, 2/12/2013 9:04:25 AM (No. 9171670)
Of the 45% that approve 44.5% are the uninformed who know nothing of the state of the economy, do not praticipate in building the economy and most likely are leaches to the economy.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Pinchem, 2/12/2013 9:06:36 AM (No. 9171676)
Does this mean that 52% of the people have sold out their Ethics and Integrity for an Iphone?
Stooping low enough to undermine many of our traditions and honorable institutions it would not surprise me if this group were to elect a child molester as Father of The Year.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
lilo, 2/12/2013 9:08:37 AM (No. 9171680)
50% of the citizens have an IQ below the average IQ. How many of those are below normal? Average/Normal are not the same.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Bpl40, 2/12/2013 9:26:10 AM (No. 9171716)
Before the election it was fear of what will happen to the free lunch if he loses. Now it is concern of what will happen if his grip on power slips. These numbers have little to do with him per se. They are the fruits of the poison trees the left has planted for over two generations.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
udanja99, 2/12/2013 9:37:14 AM (No. 9171746)
What this tells me is that a few of the 47% who are on the dole have enough sense to see that the goodies can´t keep coming forever.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Eheu Fugaces, 2/12/2013 9:52:00 AM (No. 9171794)
These results are not surprising, considering the non-stop barrage of laudatory pro-Obama propaganda coming from CBS and the other networks. Don´t forget, 65% of the news-consuming population still gets all its information from CBS, ABC and NBC, and they believe every word.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 2/12/2013 9:54:40 AM (No. 9171804)
More utter nonsense from the utter nonsense network. But, it works, folks, and this is how they do it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
killerbee, 2/12/2013 9:58:18 AM (No. 9171812)
Of course they do, most of them are on the dole. And the rest are vapid twits.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
right-turn, 2/12/2013 9:59:44 AM (No. 9171815)
Next question ....... Of the 45 percent, how many are getting handouts rather than work???
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
enuf8, 2/12/2013 10:08:40 AM (No. 9171850)
So now the polls are done calling the government issued "free" phones.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
troutgreen, 2/12/2013 10:41:08 AM (No. 9171945)
More like 47%
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
rocket scientist, 2/12/2013 10:57:28 AM (No. 9171978)
A reg flag should go up whenever you see a story headlined by the words "poll results". Also a red flag should go up with any story coming from seeBS news with the word Obama in it.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 2/12/2013 11:14:41 AM (No. 9172015)
Government schools are on the verge of succeeding in their ultimate goal of indoctrinating a majority of the public...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bob913, 2/12/2013 12:43:08 PM (No. 9172219)
Nonsense!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mustang flyer, 2/12/2013 1:18:31 PM (No. 9172313)
I´m sure where the questions were asked if at all...I know of NO ONE that was asked anything of the sort. Anybody with half a brain would have noticed the caving in this country is experiencing and NO fix in sight...
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