Obama, the Polls and Impatience

Michael Tomasky, The Guardian
I wasn't surprised to see Obama's approval numbers go down in today's WashPost-ABC poll. I read all the polls, and I can see that he's gone from what one might plausibly have called 51% in January to the mid-40s now.That's a bad drop-off. Here are the terms in which to think of this: set against his 2008 vote. Obama got 53% of the vote. If he's at 50% in a poll, he has lost 5%, or a little more, of his 2008 vote. If he's at 47% or 48%, he's lost 10% of his 2008 vote. If he's at 44-45%, even though he's only lost eight raw points from his 2008...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/04/19/obama_the_polls_and_impatience_254093.html

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