Comments on: Gallup: Indy Voter Support For Stimulus At 55% http://donklephant.com/2009/02/06/gallup-indy-voter-support-for-stimulus-at-55/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: mw http://donklephant.com/2009/02/06/gallup-indy-voter-support-for-stimulus-at-55/comment-page-1/#comment-436195 mw Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:50:48 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=13246#comment-436195 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. <blockquote><i>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.</i> - jg </blockquote> 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 <strike>stimulus</strike> spending package being <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/05/AR2009020502766.html" rel="nofollow">steamrolled by Obama</a> in the Senate. 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 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. – jg

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 stimulus spending package being steamrolled by Obama in the Senate.

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