NJ.Com Reports: A Quinnipiac University poll released this morning shows 56 percent of Garden State registered voters approve of the governor, while 38 percent disapprove. That’s a statistically insignificant change from last month, when 58 percent approved and 38 percent disapproved.

“Gov. Christopher Christie got a big bump in his job approval last month after he told New Jersey voters they were stuck with him because he wasn’t running for president,” said poll director Maurice Carroll. “Whether it’s his handling of the October snowstorm or just momentum, he’s still flying high.  Women don’t like him as much as men, but his one-time huge gender gap has shrunk.”

Christie’s popularity didn’t translate into gains in the state Legislature in last week’s election.

By a 47 percent to 32 percent margin, Republicans felt he worked hard enough. But among all voters, 46 percent felt the lack of gains could mean trouble for his reelection campaign in 2013, while 48 percent think it won’t matter.

Voters are also split on whether they think Christie will have a harder time dealing with the Democrat-controlled Legislature, which gained one seat last week, due to the results.

As Christie’s ratings stay the same, President Obama’s are on the rise. Voters are split 48 percent to 48 percent on whether they approve or disapprove of him.

A Reuters/Ipsos Poll says that 31% of registered Republicans believe Perry should drop out of the race, but 52% felt he should stay in. Among those polled, 37% of Republicans thought Cain should leave the race.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll has Romney in the lead with 28% saying they would vote for him. Perry was fourth with the support of 12%, while Cain was second at 20% and Gingrich third at 16%.

The Texas governor once sat atop national polls and led the money race during  the most recent reporting quarter, but a series of stumbles in the debates has  eaten into his backing. His fundraising has slowed significantly, sources close  to his campaign say.

Perry’s campaign went into damage control overdrive on Thursday, putting the governor front and center on news shows and allowing him to mock himself in an appearance on comedian David Letterman’s late-night talk show.

The online survey was taken among 461 registered Republican voters on Thursday and Friday.

(Report by Reuters)

Many news sites (such as this, this and this) are reporting today with great fanfare a new CNN Poll that 43% think things in the United States are going well, versus 56% who say things are bad. The ‘great’ news is that the gap between both numbers narrowed rapidly from just a month ago, and it is the best number since April 2007.

If we put this in the correct perspective, it means that ever since the Democrats took control of Capital Hill four years ago, things started going downhill in the eyes of the American people. In fact, in early January 2007, the numbers were practically flipped with 57% saying things are (still…) going well in this country; yet three months later, by April, this number was already in the low forties. The number drifted lower ever since, despite President Obama showing up with all his ‘job-creating’ policies. Only recently, when pro-business, pro-workers, pro-good health care forces were elected to – and took some control of – Washington, did this poll question become less negative.

Regardless the above poll, a lot work is still needed before vast majorities of Americans will actually see – not just think… — that things in this country are going well again.

This Post was first at American Thinker Blog: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/obamas_polling_surge.html

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CNN is out with a new poll (January 18) that 53% approve of President Obama’s work.

In its report regarding this poll, CNN writes that “Obama’s 53 percent approval rating at the start of his third year in office is six points better than Bill Clinton’s at the same time in his presidency and 16 points better than Ronald Reagan’s figure in January of 1983.” CNN however forgets to mention that Obama’s 53% is five points lower than the 58% approval rating that President George W. Bush had approximately the same time of his presidency in a CNN Poll released mid January 2003.

Sure CNN ‘forgot’ about Bush because mentioning it would undermine the narrative that Obama is better and more powerful than his predecessors. (If CNN wants to amend the report, so be it. But I already have a screen shot of their partisan report.)

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Get this from a CBS Online Poll out this morning of Obama voters:  only 2/3 of them will vote for a Democrat this November. Well, 2/3 of Obama’s 61% he got in NY, leaves Gillibrand with only 40% of the vote. Be it a few points up, or a few points down. The bottom line is, it backs what I wrote in my previous post early morning that Gillibrand does NOT have a high-flying 25 Poll lead, as the NYT poll suggests.

The NYT is out Sunday evening with a poll which gives Democrat Governor hopeful Cuomo 59% of the vote, vs. only 24% for Republican Paladino.

The results are first class crap.

If you bother to look at the internals, you will see that 58% of those polled voted for Obama in 2008, versus only 26% who say they voted for McCain – all while the  actual 2008 results show  that 36% of the popular vote in NY went for McCain. It begs the question: why did the poll under sample Republican turnout of 2008?

Furthermore, based on the fact that Obama is not on the ticket, there is smaller boon for Black voters to turnout in droves as they did in 2008. In addition the mood by Democrats is damped, while at the Republicans spirits are flying high. These anecdotes make one wonder why the Times didn’t Poll way more McCain Voters than the 36% he pulled in two years ago.

In a Poll, CNN asked the following question: “Do you favor or oppose a bill in which the federal government would provide 26 billion dollars to state governments to pay for Medicaid benefits and the salaries of public school teachers or other Government workers?”

Sixty percent said they are in favor.

Well, em… sure people support Medicaid and teachers! But  how about CNN asked the question this way: “Do you favor or oppose a bill where Obama, Pelosi and Reid provide $26 billion in Federal Funds for Public Workers who support the Democrats in election drives, but may lose jobs now because they don’t wanna take a cut in their pay and benefit packages which is likely double than what you earn. Do you approve or oppose?” 

Obama’s approval rating between the general population according to a CNN Poll conducted July 16-21, is 47%. However, 93% of blacks approve of Obama’s work, almost identical to where it was a year ago – a time that 57% of the nation approved of Obama’s work.

Considering that Blacks are 13% of the population, and Obama’s high approval in that community is more of a pride thing rather than actual approving of his work (the Unemployment Rate in the Black community is sky high and things didn’t get better the last twelve months), you would want to dump as junk half of the 13 points that Blacks add to Obama’s general numbers. This leaves Obama with a real approval rating of 40.5%.

Maybe African Americans do not represent thirteen points in the poll. Perhaps more, if you figureout the fine-print of the Poll. Regardless, the point is what it is: Obama, other Dem Presidents, and Dem Presidential Candidates, get unquestionable support from the black community, regardless what the facts are, and regardless what the population in general thinks of the Dem president/candidate. EXEAMPLE: Reagan destroyed Mondale in 1984, yet 91% of the African American Community still voted for that buffoon Mondale!

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The political world today is up-in-arms with poll results from Mason-Dixon out of Nevada that placed Harry Reid with 44% of the vote, vs. only 37% that the Republican Angle gets in the poll.

If you bother looking here, you will see that the Poll surveyed 43% Dems, 40% Repubs, and 17% Indies, in a state that Dems indeed have an 8-percantge point advantage in total voter registration, yet this advantage gets cut by more than half if you count only the so-called active voters as of June 2010. In addition, we are now in an election year that Republicans are way more enthused to go out voting that are Dems. So this poll is a joke.