A new AP-GfK poll asks voters their feelings concerning the Obama administration. The Washington Post,
The AP-GfK poll asked the approve/disapprove question, finding 17 percent of likely voters said they strongly approve of Obama and 44 percent strongly disapprove. But then it asked a separate — and we would argue, more enlightening — question about the Obama administration. It asked how people felt about it, and gave them four options: “enthusiastic,” “satisfied but not enthusiastic,” “dissatisfied but not angry,” and “angry.”
That would seem to be a pretty good analogue for the approve/disapprove question, but the answers are quite a bit different. While 17 percent of likely voters “strongly approve” of Obama, just 9 percent say they are “enthusiastic” about his administration…
As for being “enthusiastic” though, we’re not sure what would prevent Democrats who “strongly approve” of Obama’s presidency from also professing to be enthusiastic about it.
Perhaps they’re just not that excited about politics. But whatever the case, the result is the same: only about one out of 10 people who heads to the polls on Nov. 4 will go there being enthusiastic about the Obama presidency.
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