August Was Not So Bad for the White House

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/09/18/august_was_not_so_bad_for_the_white_house.html

August Was Not So Bad for the White House


Charles Franklin looks at the polling data and sees a very different picture of how the August town hall meetings impacted the Obama administration's health care reform efforts.

"A bump here and a drop there, and the precise estimates of support and opposition differ by as much as 2 points up or down. But the big picture is that opposition ramped up significantly through June or July but has recently slowed or stopped. Support fell less precipitously but has been working back up for a month (despite or perhaps because of the circus coverage in August.)"

[Peacetrain]

1. Sounds about right to me

No one I know has lost faith..

[Spazito]

2. It was amazing, the punditocracy aka the media worked SO hard...

on trying to convince the public President Obama's support was 'plummeting' while using polls that actually showed little change when taking in the margin of error.

The good news is, imo, that the rabid right-wing, in conjunction with the insurance gougers, threw everything they had at the President and it failed. I can't help but wonder which brain-dead advisers told them to 'go to the mattresses' during the summer doldrums when the American public are everywhere BUT in front of their televisions or their computers. The public heard just enough over the summer months to figure out it was crap so, even if they try to ramp it up more, it will not work, imo.

[Demeter]

3. "Not So Bad is the new Good" at Work, the curse of Lowered Expectations

[babylonsister]

4. No, it's okay, not what the m$m likes to tout constantly, that Obama's

numbers are tanking blah blah blah.

My advice is to not believe a word they say while carrying the r/w meme, which is what they're so so good at.

So sorry your expectations are lowered; mine aren't.