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Rasmussen...
Daily
Presidential Tracking Poll
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Just
33% Confident They’ll Get All
Their Promised Medicare Benefits
36%
Say Wall Street Protesters
Represent Views of Mainstream America, 44% Disagree
51%
Still Think Obama’s More Liberal
Than They Are
Generic
Congressional Ballot:
Republicans 44%, Democrats 37%
The
Rasmussen Reports daily
Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 21% of the nation’s
voters
Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as
president. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama
a
Presidential Approval Index rating of -18 (see trends).
Thirty-six
percent (36%) believe that
the views of Occupy Wall Street protesters reflect the views of
Mainstream
America . Sixty-one percent (61%)
believe most of the
protesters are politically liberal.
Newt
Gingrich has now pulled to within
six percentage points of President Obama in a hypothetical 2012
match-up. The
former House Speaker trailed by 15 points a month ago. Mitt Romney and
President Obama are essentially tied while the president leads Herman
Cain and
other GOP hopefuls by single digits. Check it out every day starting
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will release new numbers for a match-up between President Obama and a
Generic
Republican.
Most
voters still have a favorable
opinion of Medicare, but just 33% believe they’ll receive all the
benefits
they’ve been promised. For
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The
Presidential Approval Index is
calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the
number
who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up
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Facebook.
Overall,
45% of voters say they at
least somewhat approve of the president’s job performance. Fifty-four
percent
(54%) at least somewhat disapprove.
Republicans
continue to lead Democrats
on the Generic Congressional Ballot.
The
GOP has held the edge every week since June 2009 and is currently
enjoying a
seven-point advantage. But many voters are dissatisfied with both
political
teams. “The American people don’t want to be governed from the left,
the right
or the center. The American people want to govern themselves,” says
Scott
Rasmussen, author of In
Search of
Self-Governance. “The
American
attachment to self-governance runs deep. It is one of our nation’s
cherished
core values and an important part of our cultural DNA.”
It
is important to remember that the
Rasmussen Reports job approval ratings are based upon a sample of
likely
voters. Some other firms base their approval ratings on samples of all
adults.
Obama’s numbers are always several points higher in a poll of adults
rather
than likely voters. That’s because some of the president’s most
enthusiastic
supporters, such as young adults, are less likely to turn out to vote.
It is
also important to check the details of question wording when comparing
approval
ratings from different firms.
Read
the complete article with charts
and links at Rasumssen
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