Right/Wrong Track Polls..

I am very impressed at how President Obama's election seems to have brought the wrong track numbers down and the right track numbers up.

Good news, lets keep it going, maybe by next year the right track will be above the wrong track...!
 
Southern Man said:
The polls show otherwise. *shrug*
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Well the same was true in 2004. Bush was polling appaling numbers and then the Dems went and nominated Kerry. See my point? Obama could be polling at 35% and if the Repubs are stupid enough to nominate Huckabee or Palin then Obama is a lock up for re-election. I wouldn't read to much into these numbers.

Bush 1 and Bush 2 both had some of the highest ratings for President ever. By the time they were at the end of the terms their approval ratings had tanked. There's also little relevence to these numbers either.

Harry Truman had the lowest approval ratings on all the ones listed yet he's rightfully considered one of our better Presidents. Same with Dubya, extremely unpopular but if Jeffersonian Democracy takes hold in Iraq and spread through the middleast causing reform and political stabilization then he will undoubtably be considered a very significant President (of course if that doesn't happen he'll go down as one of the worst, time will tell).

So what real conclusion can be drawn from these tracking polls? #1. The American people trend according to current events (i.e. the economy tanking or going to war) and #2. that the American public is very fickle.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Why is this not good? The poll clearly shows that many more Americans feel the country is heading in the right direction then a year ago.
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The poll clearly shows that more of them think it is going in the wrong direction than even a month ago. The trend is very much down.
 
Jarod said:
I am very impressed at how President Obama's election seems to have brought the wrong track numbers down and the right track numbers up.

Good news, lets keep it going, maybe by next year the right track will be above the wrong track...!
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Which would have made sense had they continued to grow rather than peaked then dropped by a significant margin.
 
Damocles said:
Which would have made sense had they continued to grow rather than peaked then dropped by a significant margin.
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oddly enough, the RCP poll of polls show the gap closing again by about six points in just the past week.

wiggles like what we have experienced over the past month are natural... the overall trend from immediately before the election of Barack Obama up to the present has been fairly dramatically positive, wouldn't you agree?
 
maineman said:
oddly enough, the RCP poll of polls show the gap closing again by about six points in just the past week.

wiggles like what we have experienced over the past month are natural... the overall trend from immediately before the election of Barack Obama up to the present has been fairly dramatically positive, wouldn't you agree?
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Wriggles of well more than 15 points are "natural"? This is a stretch. It dropped as the health care debate went on, it rose again (slowly) when the population was able to breathe a sigh of relief as the bill will not be passed in crisis mode and without public debate. It was driven down by the Administration's insistence to pass the bill before people could begin to understand what was in it. If in August, the population is still in the dark about what the bill does it will again drive this down, playing around with at least 1/6 of the Economy is not something that people think is "right direction" type of stuff. It will not rise to the heights it was almost getting to until this has been killed. People want them to do something about the COST of health care, they do not want this universal coverage that you seem to think they do.
 
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