Poll study finds Obama more popular now than Clinton was in January of 1996

[victoryparty]

...and we all know what happened in November of 1996: Re-election!

Clinton was at 42 percent in early January of 1996; Obama's current Real Clear Politics composite approval rating is 47.1.

Details at:
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11262530-obama-more-popular-now-than-clinton-was-at-this-point-in-1996

[tavalon]

1. Wouldn't it be nice if we could just skip the next year and get on with it?

Romney is going to get the Republican nomination. Obama is going to wipe the floor with the Ken Doll 1%er. The only real good to come out of it will be more class consciousness which actually is a very good thing, followed by 4 more years of Obama, in which he will either decide to get a legacy worth having (please, please, please) or he'll settle for having been the first black President.

Even those of us who are still really, really angry at Obama for really valid things are going to vote for him. There is no valid third party candidate and besides that would actually make a Romney Presidency a possibility and that just isn't going to happen. So it's a done deal - I wish we could just swear Obama back in and get back to hoping a Supreme Court Justice or two decides to retire.

[joshcryer]

2. The fight in 2012 is to win back congress.

[mazzarro]

3. Agree with both of you

Though not too happy with Obama and his compromising stance at on most of the things that we had hoped he would fight for - particularly forgiving the warmongers. I think that has emboldened them to the point of trying to initiate similar tactics on Iran rather than find diplomatic solution to the issue - if at all Iran is pursuing what they are alleging.

[tavalon]

4. And on that point, you are 100% correct

I don't hold Obama solely responsible for the debacle that has been his Presidency thusfar. Congress is quite a bit to blame.

[joshcryer]

5. Perferably progressives.

I'd be OK with 2:1 progressives:newdems

Yes, horrors, New Dems, bad, Third Way, etc, etc...