Did President Obama Just Have a Very Good Week?

[yallerdawg]

From Gallup:

Americans' favorable ratings of President Barack Obama now stand at 53%, up four points from March. This comes after a year in which these ratings were mostly below 50% and marks the president's highest score since September 2013.

Now add in latest "Job Approval" poll!

"Gallup tracks daily the percentage of Americans who approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president."

As of May 23, 49% approve! 47% disapprove. +2 for Obama!

Something is happening here!

[leftofcool]

1. What it is ain't exactly clear

[yeoman6987]

3. His TPP looks like it may pass

So working with Republicans may look favorable to independents. So that could be one reason.

[Historic NY]

5. There's something happening here...

[classof56]

10. Stop children, what's that sound?

Sorry, couldn't help myself, for what it's worth...

Seriously, I vote for this being good news. Yay!

[tridim]

2. Every week of his presidency has been either good, great or amazing. So yes. nt

[Thinkingabout]

4. He is handling some tough issues right now, even though the Republicans voted for TPA I

think some good things are going to be revealed soon. He is right at a point of some accomplishments.

[sheshe2]

6. Yes, he sure did, yallerdawg.

[yallerdawg]

7. On this test...

I believe you just got an A+ !

[sheshe2]

15. Lol~

Thanks, yallerdawg I aced it!

[Tarheel_Dem]

8. I heard his numbers went up cuz Republicans love him now because of TPP, except it ain't true.

Independents' Favorable Ratings of Obama Surge Since Last Fall

Obama's favorable rating in the May 6-10 poll reflects increases compared with November 2014 among Democrats (90%) and independents (52%). Republicans, on the other hand, continue to be chilly toward the president; their favorable ratings of Obama have been largely flat at low levels since last fall.

[yallerdawg]

9. Did you just kill that meme?

No, facts don't matter.

Opinion rules 'out there'.

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. Looks like MIRT opened up a can of Troll-B-Gone & troll go bye bye.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6722453

DU got trolled, and the high fivers' haven't even realized it yet.

[yallerdawg]

13. You DID kill that meme!

[Tarheel_Dem]

14. I don't know that I killed it, and I wasn't the alerter, but it's gone & that's all that matters.

[Hekate]

18. Psst? Who was that masked man?

I always miss the joy. Please tell.

[Tarheel_Dem]

20. It was probably a "returning" contestant, if you know what I mean. It posited that the only...

reason the president's approval is up is because Republicans love him now because of TPP, except it was a lie. It's phrasing sounded awfully familiar.

[Hekate]

22. Apparently I hadn't flagged it yet, cause I still don't know...

I only have 4 posters in full ignore, but they are the Untouchables, if you know what I mean. I just flag others with "block mail" -- and thanks to you I gave them a look and was pleasantly surprised to find that 4 were permanently gone and 3 are on temporary hiatus. Looks like MIRT sprayed the room with Troll-Be-Gone in April.

[Tarheel_Dem]

23. I've gotten a "temporary hiatus" before but it only lasted a couple of days. One that I had been...

keeping track of has been flagged for over a month now. Is that unusual?

[Hekate]

24. I have no idea.

When I returned here after my own self imposed two year vacation I didn't put anyone on ignore for a long time. However the crap that's been going on over the last 6+ months was wearing on my last nerve, so a couple of months ago I started using the system to flag certain posters, in part to see if anyone else actually agreed with my gut about them. The first one I put on full ignore was an old timer with a permanent grudge who is nonetheless popular. As I say, I only have a small number in that status because they are not worth the aggravation to me; sadly, I can still see them on the front page.

[Cha]

17. And, just as important.. he stayed the same with Liberal Dems.. HA. much

to the chagrin of anonymous internet seethers.

Tarheel~

[Tarheel_Dem]

21. Don't ya just love it? I'll say it again..."DU is not the real world...not even close".

[Cha]

25. Thank Goodness!

[Gothmog]

12. Yes, it was a good week for President Obama

[Cha]

16. Yes, he did.. in the Real World.. LOVE it! Mahalo yallerdawg!

[Hekate]

19. Thank you, thank you

My mood has improved since I decided to hang around in my favorite Groups instead of GD. Maybe I should do that all the time. Hmmmm