Gallup: McCain Has His Highest Approval Rating Of The Last 8 Years

The Whistler • March 19, 2008

67%:

Of course, the big question is what’s driving that approval number. Is McCain impressing voters, or are Obama and Hillary turning them off?
Personally, I tend to think the latter is more likely than the former.
On a related note, Obama is losing ground with white voters.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday again shows John McCain with a six-percentage point lead over both potential Democratic opponents. McCain currently leads Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton by an identical 48% to 42% margin (see recent daily results). Among White voters, McCain leads Clinton by fifteen percentage points and Obama by nineteen points. . . .
The Illinois Senator is viewed favorably today by just 48% of voters nationwide (see recent daily results). The number with an unfavorable view of Obama has grown to 49%. Obama’s overall favorable ratings peaked at 56% on February 21 and have declined modestly since that time. While Obama tries to move beyond discussions of race, he is viewed favorably by 83% of African-Americans and by 42% among White voters.

I think voters are having a hard time believing that Obama was able to attend Wright’s church for twenty years and still disagree with sermons. As well they should.

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I agree that the Hillary-Obama kerfuffle is helping McCain by undermining their positive ratings,but that wouldn’t necessarily be reflected in better ratings for McCain.

I would say that he has done an impressive job in keeping his face on the broadcast screen, given that he is the presumptive Republian nominee. Perhaps the negativity of the Clinton-Obama campaign is making that so distasteful the political reporters are simply choosing to write about McCain instead. So yes it has helped him, but he has to help himself to gain anything from it.

In a sense, it has given him a political opening that he has exploited.

But in any case, his tour of Iraq and his prominence as a major supporter of it hasn’t hurt him either. Neither are a number of other recent campaign promises, such as his signature of on the amicus brief to the SCOTUS in favor of repealing the DC handgun ban….
carrick

Jimmy, let me be the first to say that you’re an idiot. Have a nice life.
carrick

Jimmy, nobody’s going to argue that he misspoke on Iran vs al Qaeda. BFD. At least he knows they are both our enemies.

Nor would I argue that he’s particularly knowledgeable about the economy. At least he knows it. As a party, on the other hand, Democrats are completely clueless about how free markets work. (Why would they be so gung ho to have the government constantly tamper with it.)

McCain with a good economics advisor is far more palatable to me than either Hillary or Obama’s socialistic tendencies, either of which are likely to lead us back to the failed economic policies of the Carter era. Socialism is a failed political ideology and the sooner that the Democrats realize this, and move away from it, the better for our country.
jimmy

Oh yeah, the Republicans have done wonders with the economy: Record deficit spending, plummeting dollar, $3+ gas, rising inflation, rising bankruptcies, falling home values. Bush came into office crowing about the balanced budget (which he inherited from Clinton), but he sure has made a mess of things since then.

Over the last 50 years, the economy has fared better when a Democrat is in the white house.
jimmy

Sure, how could not like an adorably clueless old codger like McCain?

Speaking to reporters in Amman, the Jordanian capital, McCain said he and two Senate colleagues traveling with him continue to be concerned about Iranian operatives “taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back.”

….A few moments later, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, standing just behind McCain, stepped forward and whispered in the presidential candidate’s ear. McCain then said: “I’m sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qaeda.”

Bush’s invasion of Iraq has been front page news for 5 years now and McCain still hasn’t figured out who’s on which side. And foreign policy is supposed to be his strong suit.

“I’m going to be honest,” he told Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal three years ago. “I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.” McCain has since tried, implausibly, to disavow all these statements, protesting that his knowledge of economics is perfectly sufficient for a president. But the zigs and zags of his 25-year career as a congressman and senator suggest that, when he said he didn’t know much about economic policy, he was giving us some of that bracing straight talk.

He may be likeable, but you don’t want a guy like this in the white house.
pparets

Only in America could a woman, a black man and a senior vie for the highest office in the world, and each brings some postives and negatives to the table.

I think moderate America will worry less that John McCain is not a classic conservative than they will that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are too liberal. Further, on the issue of experience and statesmanship, McCain wins again.

Knowing that there are 8 months until the general election and, near the end, about 90 days of an actual one-on-one race, McCain is doing the right thing; a low-key but visible campaign in which he defines the issues: Gun-rights, The war on terror, and taxation. Meanwhile, Obama and Clinton remain locked in a divisive struggle over delegates and the convention; a struggle which may alienate blacks or women from the democrat base.
pparets

Rob: Duh! Just noticed that not only does McCain have the highest positives, he has the lowest negatives.
jimmy

It’s no joke. See for yourself: http://youtube.com/watch?v=v6GBdyws5YU
carrick

What a raving lunatic.
Mark D

Gas prices… that’s primarily due to the increased demand from China and India for a limited commodity due to their growing economies

yup……sure.
Mark D

jimmy
But the wars are goin good and we are safer.
And we don’t have to really pay for anything till a bunch of years from now.
Look fannie and fredie can buy more toxic crap, and JP Morgan, a share holder of the private corporation “The Federal Reserve” is helping out the economy by shafting Bear Sterns share holders and employees.

We still got war profiteering on our side….BAE gets $715 mln order for mine resistant vehicles

BFD!

“In his Economic Club of New York speech, Bush urged the businessmen and women
in the audience not to overreact. And if you’ve ever seen the footage of him reading to
the children on 9/11, you know one thing this guy doesn’t do is overreact.’”
— Jimmy Kimmel
carrick

Record deficit spending, plummeting dollar, $3+ gas, rising inflation, rising bankruptcies, falling home values.

That’s been happening for eight years, has it? no…. then do you have a point?

The last eight years has seen an explosion in the number of home owners. We now have 97% of american families owning their own home. Think the market may be topped out?

Gas prices… that’s primarily due to the increased demand from China and India for a limited commodity due to their growing economies. You’re blaming Bush and the GOP for that? There are effects on oil prices from US policies though: Limiting off-shore oil drilling and preventing access to the oil reserves in that frozen arctic wasteland known as ANWR. Preventing the building of any new gasoline refineries since 1978.

Guess which party those two policy decisions rests upon the shoulders of? I’ll give you a hint, it’s not the GOP.

Inflation, what was it 3.5% inflation for the last quarter? Over the period 2002-current (the period where Bush’s economic policies would be relevant) the mean annual inflation rate is 2.6%. That’s exactly the same as it was from 1994-2001 (the period where Clinton’s economic policies would have been relevant). In fact, the inflation rate has been pretty much static from 1992 through the end of 2007 has been pretty much static.

It’s true that we had a 4% spike in January due to rising oil prices (more on that in a minute), but the economy remains remarkably resilient to the inflationary pressure of rising energy costs. In February the rate was 3.5%. Assuming that the oil prices stabilize, there is every reason to expect a return to modest 2.6% rises in CPI that we’ve been seeing for the last 16 years or so.

Over the last 50 years, the economy has fared better when a Democrat is in the white house.

So are you telling us that triple-double Jimmy Carter is a Republican? (Only president in history with simultaneous 10%+ inflation, unemployment and prime interest rate was your Democrat hero, Jimmy Carter.)

You really are historically naive.

When Clinton came into office the first thing he did was adopt GHWB’s economic policies. That and the Republican House/Senate were primarily responsible for the good we saw in the economy in the 1990s.

The bad was that Clinton wasn’t much of a leader: He allowed many things to decay including our national defense and research spending. As a result, Bush was forced to spend at a higher rate than he otherwise would have had to, to repair the damage from Clinton’s neglect.

As to bankruptcies… so now you’re blaming the federal government, Bush and the GOP in particular, for poor decision making on the part of individual, and foolish business decisions on the part of a number of sub-prime lenders? How exactly does that work?
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My reservations about McCain as a leader aside, I’ll admit that he’s run an admirable campaign.

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