Gallup: Indy Voter Support For Stimulus At 55%
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Economic recovery, PollsSince Gallup has been tracking these numbers in January, this is the highest support they’ve seen. In fact, as the next graph will show, as Dem support has actually decreased, independent has increased.
You couple this with recent polling and you get a bit of a mixed bag. Rasmussen recent poll revealed that opposition was higher than support, but CBS’ poll still showed more than half supported.
Do know that I favor Rasmussen above all else because they were almost dead on in the primaries and general election. However, they still have 20% of the sample in their poll who are undecided, so that could really swing either way.
But going back to the title, I think it’s significant that Independent support appears to be gaining. Maybe that’s because voters really do think that Obama is trying to work for a bipartisan solution instead of the “bipartisanship is dead” meme that the media is trying to feed them.
More as it develops…
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February 6th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Actually, if you skip the chart in the middle – lets call it an outlier -, there is no meaningful change (outside of poll margin of error) from January to February – except for the drop in support by Republicans. Which seems more consistent with casual observation. The independents are still in “benefit of the doubt” mode – as they have been since the election.
Maybe. And maybe the Republicans are just realizing that the cloak of bipartisanship that Obama enjoys trotting out in front of a fawning media is completely contradicted by the stark reality of the mainstream liberal Democratic porkfest represented by the massive
stimulusspending package being steamrolled by Obama in the Senate.