New Poll: 66% of Israeli’s Would Support Iran Strike and 75% Would Support it Even if Obama Doesn’t
Iran stated today that it could strike Israel in 11 days. So my question becomes, should a country sit there and wait for an attack like a sitting duck when violent and suspicious announcements like that are made? I don’t think so. If it came between “diplomacy” and saving my family and friends, I would certainly pick the latter.
A vast majority (66%) of Israelis said they would support military action if diplomatic and economic efforts failed to get Iran to stop uranium enrichment, and of that number, 75% would support this action even if the Obama administration were opposed, according to a survey jointly commissioned by Bar-Ilan University’s BESA center and the ADL, published on Sunday.
Regarding the US president, most respondents have an overall favorable opinion of Barack Obama, but are skeptical about his Middle East policies; while 60 percent said they had either a “somewhat favorable” or “very favorable” opinion of Obama, and 14% said their attitude toward him was unfavorable, only 32% of the respondents said they approved of Obama’s policies toward Israel, and 21% said they disapproved.
Fully 47%, however, had no answer regarding those policies, an indication that people were still forming an opinion.
Bar-Ilan University’s Eytan Gilboa, a professor of international communications who directed the poll along with BESA director Efraim Inbar, said Israelis were making a distinction between Obama, whom they liked, and his policies toward the region, of which they were more skeptical.
The BESA/ADL poll showed that Israelis were ambivalent about Obama’s connection to Israel, with 38% characterizing his attitude toward Israel as “friendly” or “very friendly,” 33% as “neutral,” and 8% characterizing it as “unfriendly” or “very unfriendly.”
Gilboa noted that throughout the survey, the younger respondents, aged 18 to 41, were more hawkish in their views than the older ones.
Gilboa said that, counterintuitively, the younger respondents had less trust in Obama and were more in favor of military action against Iran, even against US wishes.
So, here we are again, this is the same issue going on here in the States. Obama has a higher personal popularity than he does job approval rating regarding his policies. Personal popularity only lasts so long and recent polls show a downward trend of that. His policies have not taken affect and people still require a normal 6 month period to make up their minds. This could get very interesting the next three months of his presidency depending on the decisions that are made.
Obama is Not Most Popular President, Just Average
President Obama is just average.
At least by the standard of approval ratings.
Though Obama’s job approval score is strong and has been since he took office, historical polling data shows Obama’s popularity during his first 100 days is right in the middle of the scores other new presidents received from the public over the past 60 years.
Obama’s 63 percent average, according to a study released by Gallup last month, is the highest for a new president since Jimmy Carter (he clocked in at 69 percent during his first 100 days).
But John F. Kennedy bested Obama by more than 10 points, with 74 percent. Dwight Eisenhower enjoyed a 71 percent rating early on.
Obama was just a media creation and still is. The more people are exposed to Obama and his policies the less popular he becomes and that is why his daily tracking negatives have been going up while his positives are going down. As of today, Rasmussen had him at only +1.
There are more recent Gallup polls that actually have him well below the pack for recent presidents regarding approval rating:
Gallup has him even lower among recent presidents, he is only higher than disgraced ex-president Bill Clinton:
Reagan 67
Carter 63
Bush2 62
Nixon 61
Bush 58
Obama 56
Clinton 55
Click here for the source.
Either way it seems that Obama is slipping and this doesn’t bode well for him in the long run, especially if he continues the witch hunt against the former administration.
National Support for Gun Protection Grows While Support for Abortion Slips
A Study by the Pew Research Center (which is typically liberal so this is great news!)
Overview
Public attitudes on a pair of contentious national issues – gun control and abortion – have moved in a more conservative direction over the past year. In both cases, the changes have been driven in part by relatively large shifts among men, while opinions among women have not changed very much.
For the first time in a Pew Research survey, nearly as many people believe it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns (45%) than to control gun ownership (49%). As recently as a year ago, 58% said it was more important to control gun ownership while 37% said it was more important to protect the right to own guns.
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted March 31-April 21 among 1,521 adults reached on landlines and cell phones, also finds public opinion about abortion more closely divided than it has been in several years. Currently, 46% say abortion should be legal in most cases (28%) or all cases (18%); 44% believe that abortion should be illegal in most (28%) or all cases (16%). Since the mid-1990s, majorities have consistently favored legal abortion, with the exception of an August 2001 survey by ABC News/Washington Post. Read more
Dick Cheney More Popular Than VP Biden (Current Polling)
Like him or not Dick Cheney is a smart man who sticks to what he believes – I think some people may be catching onto the fact that Joe Biden is dumber than a box of hair…
From Real Clear Politics:
Double take. Joe Biden is less popular than Dick Cheney. Well, in the first half year of the first term that is.
A slim 51 percent of Americans have a favorable view of Vice President Biden. Cheney was at 58 percent in July 2001. Al Gore, 55 percent in April 1993. The veep comparison comes courtesy of the Pew Research Center’s latest report.
The public’s favorable take on Biden declined 12 percentage points since January. And don’t blame the GOP. Democrats’ favorable view fell from 87 to 76 percent. Independents’ view fell from 58 to 46 percent.
Amateur Hour: Obama Requests Time Slot for May Sweeps and We May Know How to Produce High Approval Ratings for The One
Obama will be giving another press conference next week to mark his 100th day in office. This is another Ego booster for a guy that seems to have an endless supply of narcissism and arrogance.
So Creepy guy has requested a time-slot during May Sweeps prime time. This will yet again delay American Idol and all of his younger voters are getting pretty tired of the TOTUS. This is another PR stunt for him to answer questions regarding his performance over the past 100 days. I think it’s pretty easy to say “it sucked,” although it will turn into another “it’s Bush’s fault,” press conference.
Here were some of the comments on the TV Guide website:
“No! …”
“Definitely get off the TV…”
“He’s such a diva…”
“Again?!?!”
“I voted for, and support President Obama, but this is getting ridiculous.”
Next thing you know we will hear the new Obama National Anthem play in the background when he requests commands to be on air.
Which leads me to what somebody recently figured out regarding these fallacious polls that come out of the DNC’s PR camp (like AP, NBC etc.).
Just read an AP report: the percentage of Americans that think the country is on the right track rose to 48% in March as compared to 40% in February. In light of the unemployment rising, the debacle in foreign affairs etc, I found it unlikely. So I looked into the details of the poll.
73% of the Democrats polled thought we were on the right track
17% of Independents
10% of RepublicansThat made it even more suspicious as to how those numbers could result in a 48% overall right track vote.
So digging deeper, it turns out
36% of those polled were Democrats
18% Republican
26% Independent
18% None claimedIn the 2008 election the spread between Democrats and Republicans was 6.5 percentage points not 18 and independents made up 22% of the vote not 26%.
It appears that there have been similar distortions in the various polls measuring Obama’s approval ratings.
