bad example (0.00 / 0)

Your DailyKos poll is from October 22. A lot has happened since then, to say the least. If there were a similar poll up today to compare with PPP, I'm pretty certain there'd be a different result.

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by: dwbh @ Sat Jan 23, 2010 at 19:12:39 PM UTC

I am not sure if it has changed (4.00 / 1)

but for a long time, dKOS was functioning pretty much as cheerleaders for Obama and the Dems, not as committed to progressive change. I found it unreadable. I would have expected a greater percentage of support there for Obama then elsewhere. And that is the point I guess of the main post here.

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by: VLaszlo @ Sat Jan 23, 2010 at 20:13:06 PM UTC

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Wait until the DNC gets their latest plea for money mailing back (4.00 / 2)

I sent no money but a big Fug You! and told them that's what happens when you get rid of someone like Howard Dean.

Can Dean run against Obama in the primaries?

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by: abbeysbooks @ Sat Jan 23, 2010 at 19:14:37 PM UTC

Not sure he's stereotyping (4.00 / 2)

If one defined the lefty blogosphere for this purpose as the people who write on the top 50-100 most trafficked liberal blogs (with "people who write" meaning front pagers and not random diarists at a place like Daily Kos), would Obama's approval rating come close to 75%?

I think you come up with different answers depending on if you define the blogosphere as bloggers vs bloggers and their readers and if you want to narrow the focus to the blogging "establishment" vs. including even the people whose blogs are read primarily by Google's spider indexing websites.

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by: Anthony de Jesus @ Sat Jan 23, 2010 at 20:49:29 PM UTC

Obama's approval on OpenLeft seemed to be at 25%... (0.00 / 0)

...at the START of his presidency.  I can't imagine how much lower its dropped since then.

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by: lord_mike @ Sat Jan 23, 2010 at 21:15:21 PM UTC

Probably not much, actually (0.00 / 0)

It's like Bill Clinton's approval ratings holding reasonably steady. The right went from disliking, to hating, to hating with the burning fury of a thousands suns, but they still only got to disagree once.

We're not accusing Obama of murdering Vince Foster, but the general analogy nevertheless holds. The people who were sceptical then are just more sceptical now, whereas most OL readers who weren't sceptical are unlikely ever to become noticeably more so.

I'd guess it hasn't dropped more than 10%.

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by: Englishlefty @ Sat Jan 23, 2010 at 22:28:56 PM UTC

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I don't think the democrats are representative of the (0.00 / 0)

progressive movement any longer, so whether most dems approve of him is not surprising.  Look at the polling data out of Massachusetts.  The disgusted leave the party, leaving the bootlickers!

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by: Dameocrat @ Sun Jan 24, 2010 at 06:44:37 AM UTC