President Obama's Gallup approval rating amongst liberal Democrats from April 9th-15th is 89%.

[LoZoccolo]

[Daniel537]

1. Buddy Roemer 2012!

[freshwest]

8. Hurray! We have the latest news from the Reform Party here at DU.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Link?

[LoZoccolo]

4. I no longer have the link.

[joshcryer]

13. Link for everyone in this thread complaining about a link:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Job-Approval-Center.aspx

Wish Loz would just post the fucking link.

People still will confuse liberal with liberal democrat and he can still laugh at them.

[LoZoccolo]

15. I like to give people that chance to dismiss it entirely.

[Bryn]

3. Link?

Don't be like Fox News giving out false info. Thanks

[LoZoccolo]

5. Not even MSNBC or RT give out links to individual pages of poll results on the television broadcast.

[pintobean]

9. This isn't TV.

[FarLeftFist]

12. Its from Gallup:

Views of Obama depend very much on party, Gallup added: "His approval rating ranges from 89% among liberal Democrats to 8% among conservative Republicans". Holy crap, 8% of conservatives APPROVE!

[OnyxCollie]

6. How many Democrats consider themselves to be liberal?

That's an important piece of information.

I think they are outnumbered by moderate Democrats. What the President's approval rating with them?

[joshcryer]

14. 85% of Democrats approve, 89% of Liberal D's approve, 75% Moderate D's, 70% Conservative D's.

So you can kind of extrapolate from there.

[A Simple Game]

17. So where are the conservative Democrats on DU

that usually want to denigrate the liberals on DU for hating President Obama?

[joshcryer]

22. Usually it's liberal Democrats who are defending Obama...

...against liberal non-Democrats who post here.

If you send any signal that you are a pragmatist you fail the purity tests and get called, as I have been, a right wing nut.

[A Simple Game]

29. There are several conservative people on DU that make a habit

of telling liberal people on DU that they are "Obama bashers", whenever they are in the least critical of President Obama.

They are here, and they are vocal.

[OnyxCollie]

24. According to Gallup

Only 21% of the electorate consider themselves to be liberal.

Conservatives Remain the Largest Ideological Group in U.S.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/152021/Conservatives-Remain-Largest-Ideological-Group.aspx

21% of the entire population. So out of those who consider themselves Democrats.... that's not many.

[freshwest]

7. Now, if only they get out and vote...

[Bonobo]

10. "Liberal Democrats".

That's a joke.

The term has been divested of all meaning.

[TheWraith]

16. By those who would redefine "liberal" to mean "hating Democrats and helping Republicans." nt

[SidDithers]

19. +1...nt

Sid

[Tarheel_Dem]

21. Whoosh!

[Octafish]

23. How is it 'hating' Democrats to say we are supposed to stand for working people, not Wall Street?

How is it "hating Democrats and helping Republicans" to say we voted for Obama because he said he would support universal health coverage?

How is it "hating Democrats and helping Republicans" to say we voted for Obama because he said he would bring transparancy to government instead of increasing the assault on civil liberties and the powers of corporations.

There are many, many more examples -- and that's before getting to the drones and the execution of American teenagers by executive order.

[Bonobo]

26. At least we have not become Republicans. nt

[anti-alec]

11. So nothing new to add. Okay.

Have a nice evening!

[Octafish]

18. Amazed that it's not higher.

The guy's doing so much for the average American and the poor and for justice and peace and all. He really is.

[Tarheel_Dem]

20. This can't be. DU told me so.

[treestar]

25. Now that is amazing

I thought he had disappointed every liberal constituency!

[LoZoccolo]

27. Someone wrote that real liberals left and were replaced by fake ones who like the "liberal" label.

[Number23]

28. 89% is an astronomical number this far into his first term and with an election

right around the corner. That is phenomenal.

[hobbit709]

30. and your point is?

[Motown_Johnny]

31. That an disproportional number of posters here are from that 11%

and that the President has more widespread support than is reflected here.

[hobbit709]

32. It's all in how the question is worded.

While I am a supporter of Obama, I'm not an enthusiastic cheerleader for everything he does.

so if a poll asks me if I support him, my answer would be yes. Most polls also ask if I am a "Strong" supporter,If I support him "Somewhat"
or if I "Disapprove"
I'm willing to bet that 89% number is not just "Strong" supporters.

And I consider myself far to the left of Obama-so that makes me quite "liberal"

[OnyxCollie]

33. That disproportional number of posters here

can actually understand abstract concepts like "liberal" and "conservative."

The majority of the mass public can't.

http://politicalbubbles.com/The_Nature_of_Belief_Systems_in_Mass_Publics_Converse_1964.pdf

http://wikisum.com/w/Converse:_The_nature_of_belief_systems_in_mass_publics

In Brief

A great majority of people neither adhere to a full, complete set of beliefs which produces a clear ideology nor do they have a clear grasp of what ideology is. This is measured by a lack of coherence in responses to open-ended questions. Ideology of elites is not mirrored by the masses and voter revolt to a political party does not reflect ideological shifts.

Converse analyzes open-ended interview questions to measure conceptualization of ideology. He concludes that the liberal-conservative continuum is a high level abstraction not typically used by the man in the street because of response instability and lack of connections made between answers. There is no underlying belief structure for most people, just a bunch of random opinions. Even on highly controversial, well-publicized issues, large portions of the electorate do not have coherent opinions. In fact, many simply answer survey questions as though they are flipping a coin.