Strongly Weakly

Friday, 31 July 2009 by bbbeard.

WASHINGTON.D.C. (BBB) — The Obama administration today touted the latest results of the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll. Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, said to an admiring press corps, “We would like people to note that the latest results of the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll are tout-worthy. In particular we want to focus on the unprecedented number of likely voters who feel strongly about President Obama. Early in this administration, we struggled with ’strongly’ numbers in the low 60%-ish range, but our non-stop efforts to engage Americans in the political process have boosted the total number of strongly feeling voters into the 70% range.”

After uncharacteristically pointed questions about the proportion of strongly feeling voters who actually approve of the President, Gibbs urged the press corps to focus on the overall trend, and not try to “micro-interpret” subcategories of poll results. “We feel the hard part is getting people to feel engaged in the political process, and we feel we’ve been doing a great job with that. We don’t want to dwell on day-to-day shifts in ‘approve/disapprove’ numbers because in the long run those don’t count nearly as much as getting people involved. We like to say, ‘We are the people you’ve been waiting on. Um, for.’ ”

For a closer view of the trends in the Rasmussen poll, click on the thumbnail below.

For a closer look at the “not strongly” voters, click on the next thumbnail:

Asked what it would take to get more of the “weakly feeling” likely voters to feel strongly about the President, Mr. Gibbs suggested that upcoming plans to bring the overnight package delivery business up to the government standards would be a centerpiece of fall plans to rejuvenate the economy. “Once we purge greedy doctors, greedy bankers, and greedy oil companies from the public square, it will be time to purge greedy overnight package delivery companies. You know, why should it be fifty times the cost of stamp to deliver a package overnight? Americans pay a higher percentage of their GDP to overnight package delivery companies than any other country. We are way overdue for reform. And our polls indicate that this issue will help more people than ever feel strongly about the Obama Presidency.”

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