New PPP poll: Obama's approval at 52%

[AlexanderProgressive]

A lot of polls have been released within the past two days.
PPP just released one, conducted June 12-16.

Approval now: 52% (55% in May)
Disapproval now: 44% (38% in May)

Obama beats Huckabee in a hypothetical matchup, 50%-43%, Gingrich 49%-41%, Romney 48-40%, and Palin, 52%-40%

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_National_618.pdf

[vaberella]

1. How many different polls are out there? I'm getting heartburn from all this. n/t

[grantcart]

2. take this for poll heartburn

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8481194&mesg_id=8481194

[vaberella]

4. +1. n/t

[MUAD_DIB]

3. Sounds like a low-ball poll.

[FrenchieCat]

5. To be used to reduce Obama's average.....

and to give the MSM something to relish as the Health Care fight gets underway.

How much you want to bet that the MSM wants a public option to health care,
like you want a hole in the wall of your house?

[QC]

6. Savvy people disregard the outliers, both high and low. n/t

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. They're ALREADY polling hypothetical 2012 election matchups?

:wtf: :banghead:

[JaneQPublic]

8. I'm rooting for Palin in the 2012 GOP primaries!!! (nt)

[Kaleva]

9. 92% of liberals approve of Obama

67% of moderates approve
17% of conservatives approve

[NYC Democrat]

11. that would mean this poll is oversampling Conservatives and under sampling Liberals

[WI_DEM]

10. Yes, and Clinton was at 36% at end of '93 and had no trouble winning re-election

It's too early to think about '12 anyway. The polls will be up and down.

[Hamlette]

12. you could be quoting an outlier for Clinton

I can find where he went below 43% in 1995 (June) and at the end of the year he was at 58%.

In fact he never went below the low 40s as far as I can find.

[WI_DEM]

14. You may be right but his average approval rating appears to have been under 50% 93-95

at least in Gallup:

Clinton Approval Rating
1993
1994
1995
1996
Now 49%
46
47
56
62
(Yearly averages)
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/01/16/poll.clinton/

[Hamlette]

16. yes, but I remember the number 43% (maybe incorrectly) because I got in an argument with a freeper

relative who said Clinton's approval ratings were worse than Bush's so I looked it up. According to that graph, they could have gone as low as 41 or 42%???

[WI_DEM]

13. CBS News poll Obama approval at 63% out today

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/us/politics/18poll.html?_r=1&hp

[AtomicKitten]

15. He's got a 95% approval rating in my household.

My stripy grey cat the only hold-out.

[chicago legal pro]

17. 2012 polling is utterly meaningless at this point

So many things can and will happen in the next 3 years. Probably in 2012 Obama will face someone we never heard of now.