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

[babylonsister]

Rasmussen? That's gotta smart.

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/bipartisanship/poll-more-now-think-obama-is-partisan-dem-and-his-approval-rating-is-up/

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.

[Clio the Leo]

1. It's not so much that the public doesn't like bipartisanship....

..... as they dont like partisan rancor. Well, at least the middle doesn't anyway. That's why they're in the middle. They dont want to be involved with either party if all they do is fight with one another.

But most Americans know that President and the darned "Democrat" party are actually trying to FIX our problems while the Republicans are getting in the way and failing to offer other solutions.

If the President was seen as being a partisaned Republican, those numbers might be different.

His plan has always been to push forward the left's agenda while offering a symbolic open hand to the right. It never mattered that he was successful in working with the right, it only mattered that he TRIED.

[Peacetrain]

2. Partisan does not bother most people, it is the fit throwing of some partisans

that gets under their skin

[ArchieStone1]

3. it is a mistake for us to tout Rasmussen polls

Because next thing you know he tells us that Obama's approval dropped to 50%.

Note that in Rasmussen, Obama's disapproval is too big compared to other pollsters.

I never trusted the guy.

[babylonsister]

4. I don't trust them either, which is why this is so comical. I'm sure

these results are not what they expected.

[Solomon]

5. I don't necessarily see a direct corelation with the poll and the result that

you are talking about. Perhaps the public is comfortable with seeing him as partisan precisely because he attempted to take a bi-partisan route. The whole point of doing that is to show that if you have to act in a partisan manner, it's because the other side forced you to by their recalcitrance. I still say he gets miles of political capital by trying to be bi=partisan even if it doesn't work.

:hi:

[emulatorloo]

6. It is mostly because people have such a LOW OPINION of the REPUBLICANS

Seems like most people are seeing the "gotcha" obstructionist Republicans in a RICHLY DESERVED negative light. So they are happy when Obama sticks to his guns.

In a way I wish the 2010 elections were tomorrow.