Over the last week or so, there has been a lot of news coverage of Barack Obama’s comeback in the polls. I noted his modest bounce here, and Scott Rasmussen wrote us to say that he thought Obama’s rise was due to increasing optimism about the economy.
After all that hype, it appears that the Obama boomlet may have been overrated. In theGallup Poll, Obama has dropped back to 44/48. In Rasmussen’s Approval Index, Obama, after a week or so of slightly less gloomy numbers, is back to an ice-cold -18:
Moreover, Rasmussen’s overall approve/disapprove numbers among registered voters are back to 45/54.
Putting all of that together, it appears that reality has reasserted itself:
The bloggers at PowerLine are smarter than this.
It is food for thought, not a conclusion.
There is going to be a whole lot of Obama/media collusion to create a new boomlet.
This one will be better timed to enhance Obama’s re-election chances.
Some of the things that will look good for Obama on paper:
*Many people will fall off the unemployment rolls after exhausting 99 weeks’ worth of compensation, making the unemployment number LOOK better.
*Many more unemployed people will be retiring early, also making the unemployment number LOOK better.
*The US Census data used to define the Middle Class will change so that weeks before the 2012 election it will LOOK like millions of poor people joined the Middle Class.
*Front groups will create push polls and the media will publish them uncritically, making Obama LOOK like he’s got swelling support.
Perhaps over all the Man-god with the halo wasn’t/isn’t all that he was cracked up to be…and the last 3 years proves it…
Americans voting him out in 2012 will prove it too.