Polling Sour Graps

Shockingly, Obama's approval has gone up after Bin Laden got taken out. Freepers are having none of that, though!

ilgipper is sure the poll is a fraud

up nine points from similar polls last month

The key phrase of the report. Similar. Not same, similar. The model was tweaked to show a bigger bounce.

Steamburg agrees

It was a poll of 457 selected Obama supporters, not the Usual 1,000 randomly selected Obama supporters. What a surprise. They had to cook the books to get only 9 points.

Lazlo in PA notes that Rasmussen disagrees, so this poll is all lies and everyone still hates Obama.

This is totally contrary to other polling that came out today like Rasmussen.

This is the MSM artificially inflating, in a vain attempt to give this loser credibility. Won’t work. Fuel and food prices are high and unemployment is still 9%. That is what people are really worried about.

pnh102 loves him some false comparisons:

Even if this is true, only 9 points? Bush 41 was up to 90% after the Gulf War, and Bush 43 was up to 80% after the War in Afghanistan started.

Howie66 notes that when Bush does it, it's much better.

Just 9 points, eh?

After all the messaging and stroking that the SRM has been doing?

Pretty pathetic, when you consider that President Bush got a 9 point bounce upon the capture of Saddam Hussein in spite of the same SRM hammering away at his approval ratings from the very beginning.

truthkeeper heard on Rush that Obama didn't want to kill Bin Laden but had to:

Did anyone hear the ex-Navy Seal call into Rush's show this morning? His theory is that BO was dragged into making the decision kicking and screaming because the word was finally out on Bin Laden's location, and if he hadn't acted it would have all unraveled because people were prepared to blab.

In other words, another purely craven political act, no heroism on the part of Dear Reader.