"NBC/WSJ survey: Obama approval up, but enthusiam gap still favors the GOP"

[applegrove]

NBC/WSJ survey: Obama approval up, but enthusiam gap still favors the GOP

by Jed Lewison at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/30/1295842/-NBC-WSJ-survey-Obama-approval-up-but-enthusiasm-gap-still-favors-GOP

"SNIP.......................


First, the good news. The new Wall Street Journal/NBC News national survey (pdf), conducted April 23-27 among American adults with a margin of error of ±3.1 percent, shows President Obama with a better net approval rating this month than last, going from 13 points underwater in March to six in April.
That reflects an overall approval increase of three points, from 41 to 44, and is stronger than the -11 net approval rating in yesterday's ABC/Washington Post poll. They survey also showed President Obama with a positive net image (+3) while the GOP and tea party were both in terrible shape with a -19 net image rating. Democrats were essentially even (-1).

But here's the troubling news: Although the poll shows registered voters evenly split at 45 percent each between Democrats and Republicans on the generic ballot, the survey showed signs of an enormous intensity gap.

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My advice? Don't just spend the year attacking Republicans for blocking progress (though definitely do that): Also make a concrete set of promises about what Democrats will do if voters return Congress to their hands. For example, don't just hit Republicans for blocking a minimum wage increase—tell voters that if they want to see the minimum wage hiked, they need to vote for Democrats, because if Democrats win, they will raise the minimum wage. In a normal world, you'd think that would be self-evident, but the fact is the Democrats didn't do it in 2009-2010, so they need to make clear that they aren't just posturing now.


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[FiveGoodMen]

1. "but the fact is the Democrats didn't do it in 2009-2010"

I was going to mention that but you beat me to it.

I can't imagine what would make ANYONE enthusiastic about the GOP.

But recent performance does explain the lack of excitement for our side.

[DCBob]

2. More of a hate gap than an enthusiam gap.

Faux and RW propaganda have brainwashed many into hating and despising Democrats and liberal ideals and that will drive many to vote. The GOP must be so proud.

[Tom Ripley]

3. Well, they cetainly have "enthusiasm"...

Origin & History of “enthusiasm”
Enthusiasm has had a chequered semantic history. like giddiness, it meant originally ‘state of being inspired by a god’. It comes ultimately from Greek énthous or éntheos ‘possessed, inspired’, a compound formed from the prefix en- ‘in’ and theós ‘god’ (as in English theology). From this in turn was derived the verb enthousiázein ‘be inspired’ and the noun enthousiasmós, which passed into English via Latin or French, still with the sense ‘divine inspiration’ (‘Doth he think they knew it by enthusiasm or revelation from heaven?’ Richard Baxter, Infants’ church membership and baptism 1651). In the stern climate of Puritanism, however, divine inspiration was not something to be encouraged, and as the 17th century progressed enthusiasm took on derogatory connotations of ‘excessive religious emotion’. The modern approbatory meaning, ‘eagerness’, had its beginnings at the start of the 18th century, and by the early 19th century had ousted the deprecatory sense from leading place.

[Sanity Claws]

4. Earlier this week, a different poll said Obama was down

and how that spelled doom and gloom for the Democrats in the fall.

This poll says Obama is up in the polls yet we still hear doom and gloom for the Democrats in the fall.

Amazing how the spin always goes in one direction --- to the right.