Poll: More Now Think Obama Is “Partisan Dem” — And His Approval Rating Is Up! [View All]

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Poll: More Now Think Obama Is “Partisan Dem” — And His Approval Rating Is Up!


Not that you needed it, but here’s yet another possible sign that the public doesn’t tend to want our politicians to engage in “bipartisanship” for its own sake.

A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that 50% now think President Obama is “governing as a partisan Democrat,” up seven points from last month and up 11 points from two months ago.

So has that shift hurt his approval rating? Nope. If anything, it’s the opposite.

Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll finds that Obama’s approval rating is up, at 58%. It finds that the number who “strongly approve” of his performance is also up, to 37%.

These changes come as Republicans have turned up the heat on Obama and as the White House and its allies have dug in and gone after Republicans equally hard. So is there a connection between Obama’s rising approval numbers and the rising perception of him as a “partisan Democrat”?

Hard to say — but it does seem clear that this growing view of Obama hasn’t done anything to tarnish his “brand.” And yet we keep hearing that this brand is supposedly rooted in his willingness to be “bipartisan” or “post-partisan.” These numbers suggest that people don’t automatically equate “partisan” with “bad,” and that the success of the Obama brand is rooted in the perception that he’s acting for the good of the country, rather than his party, even when he appears partisan.