Tea Party Candidate Mitt Romney Has Negative Approval Rating

[pimpdave]

Mitt Romney is the first presidential candidate since 1996 to exit the primaries with a negative approval rating.

What will the the Tea Party's candidate for president do when this clip starts going viral on the internet? Will they respond with their typical violence?



Does this mean Romney wants to take his Tea Party into even more extreme positions? How dare they!

[everywhere116]

I don't see anything indicating a negative approval rating in that clip, nor do I know how such a thing is possible.

[pimpdave]

http://www.cagle.com/2012/04/down-prett ... nd-cayman/



http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/bru ... orically-w

[Night Strike]

I don't see anything indicating a negative approval rating in that clip, nor do I know how such a thing is possible.

Don't ever expect pimpdave's links (if he provides one) to match up with his assertions.

Mitt Romney is the first presidential candidate since 1996 to exit the primaries with a negative approval rating.

Those ratings will go up once he's actually the nominee and conservatives start supporting him because we realize that Obama is horrible for the country. With a conservative Congress, we have a chance of forcing Romney to go along with conservative principles and legislation, but we have absolutely no chance of that with Obama.

[Phatscotty]

[rdsrds2120]

I don't know that that poll was done right. I mean, I'm all for stats as it's one of my fields of study, but having only "Strongly Approve" and "Strongly Disapprove" as options might alienate the modern demographic, causing a skew. I have no say in how or which way it would skew (for all I know, it's not showing to the full extent of how much people dislike Obama, though I doubt that's the case given other figures: http://www.gallup.com/poll/116479/barac ... val.aspx#1 )

-rd

[Night Strike]

Rasmussen polls on a gradient of options, but it uses only the strongest opinions when calculating the plus/minus of the favorability rating. The theory being that those who strongly approve or disapprove are less likely to change their minds, so if they are skewed one direction, it means that the person has less middle room to gain people to his side.

[pimpdave]

Yeah guys, you should totally trust Night Strike about statistics. He's an expert at everything, except for chemistry. Remember that time on this forum he demonstrated a disturbing amount of ignorance about the one field he should actually know something about?

[Night Strike]

Yeah guys, you should totally trust Night Strike about statistics. He's an expert at everything, except for chemistry. Remember that time on this forum he demonstrated a disturbing amount of ignorance about the one field he should actually know something about?

And yet my partial misstatement still demonstrated more knowledge about my field than you know. And we know your "profession" of editorializing any article into your hatred for the Tea Party is something lacking of inspiration.

[pimpdave]

Yeah, but I don't pontificate on matters of chemistry, so it's not like I'm claiming knowledge I clearly don't have. However, you do all the time. I'm only going by what you've posted here.

[Night Strike]

Yeah, but I don't pontificate on matters of chemistry, so it's not like I'm claiming knowledge I clearly don't have. However, you do all the time. I'm only going by what you've posted here.

You have used one minor misstatement as your justification for indicting all of my chemistry knowledge and skills. Why don't you get over it and return to reality? You make many more mistakes in this forum every single day with your Tea Party Derangement Syndrome leading to false accusations about anyone you don't like.

[Lootifer]

[useless fact]
Im a chemical engineer; the only course I failed at university was 300-level organic chemistry
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[BigBallinStalin]

There's nothing organic with the energy industry, so you'll do fine! ... or so they say.

[Phatscotty]

Is Romney's negative approval rating as pathetic as Obama's?

[BigBallinStalin]

I posted it again lol.jpg

[Nola_Lifer]

Is Romney's negative approval rating as pathetic as Obama's?

Just as I expected, only half of what is polled. Here is the full information. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... ex_history Also, Scotty this is a thread about Mitt not Obama, so please stop derailing thread and posting half information.

[Night Strike]

Is Romney's negative approval rating as pathetic as Obama's?

Just as I expected, only half of what is polled. Here is the full information. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... ex_history Also, Scotty this is a thread about Mitt not Obama, so please stop derailing thread and posting half information.

Rasmussen polls on a gradient of options, but it uses only the strongest opinions when calculating the plus/minus of the favorability rating. The theory being that those who strongly approve or disapprove are less likely to change their minds, so if they are skewed one direction, it means that the person has less middle room to gain people to his side.

And besides my explanation above, showing all the numbers is actually a worse indicator for the president. Only 10% of those polled somewhat disapprove of his work while only 20% somewhat approve of his work. This means there are a lot more people who could be swayed against him than those who can be persuaded to move to him. And his total disapproval is already over 50%.

[Iron Butterfly]

Mitt Romney is the first presidential candidate since 1996 to exit the primaries with a negative approval rating.

What will the the Tea Party's candidate for president do when this clip starts going viral on the internet? Will they respond with their typical violence?



Does this mean Romney wants to take his Tea Party into even more extreme positions? How dare they!

No... they will visit Brazilian whores to releive their stress, take un- needed junkets on the taxpayers dime, send guns to mexico for shits and giggles, declare that there is a war on women, play the race card several times over amd put the needs of foreighn countries ahead of US concerns.

OOps... wrong canidate.

[Phatscotty]

Is Romney's negative approval rating as pathetic as Obama's?

Just as I expected, only half of what is polled. Here is the full information. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... ex_history Also, Scotty this is a thread about Mitt not Obama, so please stop derailing thread and posting half information.

It's not about Mitt, it's about negative approval ratings.

so...what do you think about the negative approval ratings? Or are you dodging

[Nola_Lifer]

Is Romney's negative approval rating as pathetic as Obama's?

Just as I expected, only half of what is polled. Here is the full information. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... ex_history Also, Scotty this is a thread about Mitt not Obama, so please stop derailing thread and posting half information.

Rasmussen polls on a gradient of options, but it uses only the strongest opinions when calculating the plus/minus of the favorability rating. The theory being that those who strongly approve or disapprove are less likely to change their minds, so if they are skewed one direction, it means that the person has less middle room to gain people to his side.

And besides my explanation above, showing all the numbers is actually a worse indicator for the president. Only 10% of those polled somewhat disapprove of his work while only 20% somewhat approve of his work. This means there are a lot more people who could be swayed against him than those who can be persuaded to move to him. And his total disapproval is already over 50%.

This may be true but it doesn't show us how many people vote in the stronger category and who just voted, so it is still skewed.

[Nola_Lifer]

Is Romney's negative approval rating as pathetic as Obama's?

Just as I expected, only half of what is polled. Here is the full information. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... ex_history Also, Scotty this is a thread about Mitt not Obama, so please stop derailing thread and posting half information.

It's not about Mitt, it's about negative approval ratings.

so...what do you think about the negative approval ratings? Or are you dodging

This thread is about Mitt Romney's negative approval rating not presidential candidates approval rating. I am not dodging anything. You only see what you want to see and not the whole thing.

[Night Strike]

This may be true but it doesn't show us how many people vote in the stronger category and who just voted, so it is still skewed.

A percentage is still a percentage, no matter how many people are polled. Most Rasmussen polls are around 1,000 likely voters (which is different from "adults" or "registered voters"). You can always go look at that data if you are skeptical about a poll. While you're at it, I'd like to mention that most polls (not Rasmussen) tend to over-sample Democrats, so if a Democratic person/issue is tied or even losing in those polls, it's not a good sign for them.

[Phatscotty]

Is Romney's negative approval rating as pathetic as Obama's?

Just as I expected, only half of what is polled. Here is the full information. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... ex_history Also, Scotty this is a thread about Mitt not Obama, so please stop derailing thread and posting half information.

It's not about Mitt, it's about negative approval ratings.

so...what do you think about the negative approval ratings? Or are you dodging

This thread is about Mitt Romney's negative approval rating not presidential candidates approval rating. I am not dodging anything. You only see what you want to see and not the whole thing.

Well, Mitt Romney is not a Tea Party candidate either......so, are you just as mad that people are talking about the Tea Party and not Mitt Romney's negative approval ratings? You weren't callin someone a hypocrite earlier today either by chance were ya?

Yall crackin up, big time

[Nola_Lifer]

You can go through and do a search and you will find that I never called anyone a hypocrite.

If you wanna talk about Obama and me being a hypocrite explain this poll? Polls don't mean shit.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/gallu ... roval.aspx

[Phatscotty]

You can go through and do a search and you will find that I never called anyone a hypocrite.

If you wanna talk about Obama and me being a hypocrite explain this poll? Polls don't mean shit.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/gallu ... roval.aspx

You are right. I confused you with someone else. Apologies

thanks for your contribution. We now have a chart on Obama's approval/disapproval, along with an in depth chart of Obama's stronlgy approve/disapprove.