Obama Wins Back Republicans
I don’t think his approval ratings ever dropped low enough to call this a second honeymoon, but Obama’s non-State of the Union on Tuesday boosted his job approval ratings back near all-time highs. Overall, his approval went from 59% before to 67% after—a respectable jump.
But the most interesting result from the Gallup survey was the change in Republican support: Before the speech, 27% of Republicans approved of Obama, and that had held steady for a couple of polling cycles; after the speech, that number climbed to 42%.
Republicans spent weeks chipping away at Obama from all sides and had managed to at least win over their own party, but with one fell swoop he effectively swatted down the opposition and erased any gains they had made.
Nearly half of Republicans now approve of him. How will the Republican leadership deal with this new political reality? They can keep trying to beat Obama in a PR fight, but they are ill-equipped for that battle and are up against the best in the game. Will they instead try to work with the administration? Or will they stay in the wilderness until they come up with a better strategy than opposing volcano monitoring research?
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3 Responses to “Obama Wins Back Republicans”
I hate to argue with poll results, but I'm just not seeing it in the blogosphere – the jump for Republicans seems too high.
And the only poll that requires people to put their money where their mouth is……isn't doing so well either.
The blogosphere often reflects the most partisan of the parties. And the poll that requires money…well, just how representative of the general public would we expect it to be? I think it's overrated, especially in tough economic times.