88% approval among liberal Democrats!

[UrbScotty]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/presidential-approval-center.aspx

[Number23]

1. But (insert narrow minded, clueless, myopic reason for those poll results here)!!

His approval rating among liberal Dems has never gone below 82% I don't think, but this jump to 88% is a very nice little increase

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. Liberals are lying to pollsters because they don't want Gingrich to win.

I swear to you, it's posted right here on this board. Have you ever?

[Number23]

3. Ummm...

Liberals are lying to pollsters because they don't want Gingrich to win.

I don't understand what that's even SUPPOSED to mean.

The creativity and backflips that people will go through to deny the reality that they represent nothing even resembling a majority or even a sizable minority is incredible. If they put half this much thought and creativity into trying to get more liberal minded people into office, they would actually be able to do something about the world.

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. I, too, thought it was a twisted argument to make, and when I questioned the poster, I got....

more gobble-dee-gook. I sometimes wonder if they're so vehemently opposed to the current "reality" that they've lost any ability to be rational. It's an amazing phenomenon, and as sad as it sometimes seems, it's kinda entertaining to watch.

Obama/Biden 2012

[nofurylike]

4. thank you for posting that, UrbScotty! nt

[Kath1]

5. This Liberal Democrat...

Approves!

[Grateful for Hope]

7. Very nice!

a big "thumbsup:

[SwampG8r]

8. i dont like

the low numbers on the independants
hopefully they will come up

[UrbScotty]

9. Doing better among moderates. He barely won the indy vote in 2008, according to exit polls.

He won more because more Democrats voted than Republicans - the 2008 electorate was 39% Democratic, 32% Republican, and 29% independent/other parties.

There's another poll taken recently that showed Obama leading Romney by 51-41 among independents - and 68-27 among moderates. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/17/1055631/-PPP:-President-Obama-opens-up-lead-over-Mitt-Romney

The narrowness of Obama's margin over McCain among indies - plus the discrepancy between moderates and independents polls like this one - only help to confirm what I have long thought: That many independents aren't true independents, but merely call themselves independents publicly only to vote straight Republican in the privacy of a voting booth.