Today's (unmentioned by the media) Gallup Tracking Poll...

[jenmito]

49% approve, 45% disapprove!: http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx

[jefferson_dem]

1. Ha. His best score there since July 1.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

[jenmito]

2. Wow! That's great!

[jenmito]

3. kick

[AtomicKitten]

4. Thanks and you're right, the media will be loathe to mention that bit of good news.

They are so much more comfortable pushing a crappy narrative.

K&R

Cheers.

[jenmito]

5. Thanks, AK...

I haven't heard it mentioned it YET. Maybe I'll ask Contessa Brewer to mention it on MSNBC. She answers my emails re: comments on MSNBC.

[Politics_Guy25]

8. Can it get back to 50%

That is key. If it can, tommorrow or Saturday, that will be huge and it will be his first time at 50% in Gallup since the oil spill catastrophe.

[great white snark]

6. K&R! He's getting back the moderates.

Thanks for the great news jenmito.

[KeyserSoze87]

7. His approval rating will probably shoot up even further now that DADT is repealed

[jenmito]

9. I think so, too.

[KeyserSoze87]

27. I'm guessing it could go as high as 55%, maybe even higher than that

[jenmito]

28. I hear he's getting great coverage on nightly network news shows.

Maybe his approval WILL get that high after it sinks in for people who don't follow the news closely.

[mtnsnake]

10. If we're celebrating 49%, then our standards have really dropped

Hopefully, Obama will get his ratings up in the 60's where they belong. 49% is simply unacceptable if we are to compete for a second term in a row.

[jenmito]

11. Obama is doing better than past 2-term presidents at this time in their presidencies. n/t

[mtnsnake]

12. His ratings are very similar to most past recent presidents after 2 years

and is very similar after two years to Reagan and Clinton.

None of them had anything to celebrate either after their first two years as far as approval ratings go.

[jenmito]

13. So what's your point?

[mtnsnake]

18. My point is that he needs to increase his ratings dramatically in the next 2 years.

I thought I already made that point.

[jenmito]

20. But it doesn't refute my point that he's in great shape to win judging by his 49% approval

rating at this point. He can't be expected to be in the 60% range at this time after accomplishing so much that the Repubs. and Faux are attacking him for. But his base will come back along with the Indies and he'll win easily in '12.

[mtnsnake]

23. Fair enough

Your point is well taken.

[jenmito]

24. Thanks.

:hi:

[mtnsnake]

26. Back at ya

:hi:

[rasputin1952]

14. Just wait until the R's take ove rthe House and start all kinds

of stuff...I'm willing to bet he'll climb to 65%+ if he calls the on their crap...:D

[jenmito]

15. Yup...

the Repubs. are going to over-play their supposed "mandate" and Obama will benefit greatly. I hope they try their best to impeach him.

[rasputin1952]

16. They will learn nothing from the Gingrich debacle...

and I suspect Boehner will be warming his old seat after the General Election.

I'll say thins though, if D's would have shown up at the polls...the GOP would have been crushed to dust and gone the way of the Whigs. People staying home gave a dying party another gasp at life; they should have been in the grave by now...I blame a lackadaisical electorate for the loss in the House and the gain in the Senate. They should never have gotten to where they are...:(

[jenmito]

19. You're exactly right...

and the REALLY sad part is that people like Ed Schultz encouraged people not to vote in '10. There's video of him saying so somewhere here on DU if some people don't believe it. If more Dems. would've voted, we would've retained the House and not lost so many seats in the Senate, just like you said. Too bad some were so apathetic.

[tledford]

21. I find it impossible to believe that ANY Democratic voter would vote...

...or not vote based on what Ed Schultz said; or Keith Olberman, or Rachel Maddow, or Stephanie Miller, or Randi Rhodes, or Thom Hartman, or Dave Marsh, or Mike Malloy, or Bill Press, or Mark Thompson/Matsimela Mapfumo, or any other pundit, left, centrist or right, happened to say.

The people who didn't vote didn't vote because they were demoralized.

[rasputin1952]

22. I don't think they were demoralized as a whole...

I'll call it as I see it...they were damn lazy! It happens all the time, and those that didn't vote were and are the first and loudest complainers. Unless a registered voter is dead, there is no valid reason not to vote.

That's it, cut and dried and if people don't believe me about the laziness, just look to history, it happens all of the time. People just don't want to be bothered.

Then, they pay for it.

[jenmito]

25. I didn't say any Dem. DID or did NOT vote based on what Ed Schultz said...

I just said it's sad that he encouraged Dems. not to vote.

[Clio the Leo]

29. lol good point. nt

[JanetLovesObama]

17. S W E E T !