Obama approval rating rises to 85% among liberal dems in the past week

[Cali_Democrat]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Approval-Center.aspx

It went from 84% to 85% among liberal dems.

TPP?

No impact.

[Buzz Clik]

1. Goddammit! We threw him under the bus!

Are you trying to tell me that DU does not represent the mainstream liberal?

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Yes...

that's what I'm saying...

[Capt. Obvious]

3. Lozo had more style with these threads

[hobbit709]

4. Beat me to it.

[Buzz Clik]

5. DUers prefer to be told they are out of touch with style.

[LiberalAndProud]

6. Oh good! a poll, significant of nothing.

Again.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Republican strategists said the same thing

just before Romney's humiliating defeat.

[whatthehey]

10. whereas individual anecdotes about unstoppable liberal angst over Obama are significant of what?

I'll go with the large random sample as indicative of reality before self-selected subjectivity any day

[Hekate]

8. Well bless my buttons, and count me in

I've been Liberal and Dem all my life, and afaiac America got lucky with this president.

[MineralMan]

9. Well, I'm part of that 85%.

Thanks for the info on the poll.

[paulbibeau]

11. I criticize the president all the time...

I do it in this forum. I criticize him on the war on terror, and I am really worried about TPP.

But if you ask me do I approve of this president, I'm automatically going to think, "Compared to what? Compared to other presidents? Compared to the insane people he's dealing with? Compared to his critics on Fox News and in red state America?"

And then I feel more charitable toward a guy who has the hardest job in the world, inherited a terrible economic and political situation, and gets accused of not even being a real citizen by racist nutjobs. And recently, he's shown that he's doing his damnedest to build an understanding with two countries we've had a cold war with for decades. And he's doing that in the face of opposition from a party that really does want unlimited war.

So I will go on criticizing the president. It's important that we do that. Lives are getting lost.

But the government is bigger than he is, and so are our problems, and after Dick Cheney and his Texan meat-puppet, Barack Obama looks decidedly better than average.