November 16, 2012

President Obama’s Favorable Ratings Goes Up – Highest Since 2009

Everything looks better in hindsight, apparently. President Barack Obama’s favorable rating bounced to 58 percent post-election, the highest it’s been since 2009, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll released Friday.

Obama’s favorable rating is 3 points higher than it was a week before the election, although it’s still below his 68 percent rating immediately after winning the 2008 election.

The Democratic Party as a whole saw a more significant jump in its favorability rating, which rose 6 points to 51 percent. A majority of Americans now hold positive views of the party for the first time since mid-2009.

The president’s GOP rival, Mitt Romney, also benefited — his favorable ratings rose 4 points to hit 50 percent, tying his personal high from May, according to the new poll. The Republican Party’s ratings stayed at 43 percent, similar to the 42 percent it garnered just before the election.

The USA Today/Gallup poll surveyed 1,009 adults by phone between Nov. 9 and 12, with a 4 percent margin of error.

h/t Huffington Post

Meghan McCain To The Republican Party – Change, Or I’m Leaving You

While her father John McCain continues his fruitless partisan attacks on the Obama administration, Meghan McCain is quietly making news calling for drastic changes in the Republican party especially around social issues. And if the party remains the same boring old party stuck in the ice age, the daughter of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate is threatening to pack all her stuff and leave the party!

She writes:

“… I’ve been calling for the Republican Party to come to terms with reality and modernize. Last Tuesday, Mitt Romney lost—and he lost big. As Republicans, we lost again. I felt sad, exhausted, beaten down, and heartbroken. It was the first time that I considered that the Republican Party, which I love so much, might die.”

“Times are changing. The face of America is changing and we as Republicans stand at a crossroads. Are we going to accept the changing face of America and change with it? Or are we going to continue to become more isolated and irrelevant? It’s possible to maintain the core values of this party and evolve when it comes to social issues. Quite frankly, I don’t see any other path to success.”

“I’ve spent most of my adult life fighting for change from inside the Republican Party… And if we don’t move forward, adapt, and become relevant again, the Republican Party isn’t going to survive. It will just continue to alienate more moderate voters like myself. If I don’t see some changes in the next four years, I’m going to consider registering as an Independent in 2016.”