Me thinks there's something rotten here. Who is CBS polling - the DNC? 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Go to this site, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29493093/%3E and vote. Right now Obama is polling at 43% for an "F" grade and a 32% "A" grade. I wonder if this will ever see the light of day!!??

...'journalists' will start polling the population and stop polling the newsroom.

The poll also has good news for Mr. Obama on the economy: 68 percent say they're satisfied or enthusiastic about his handling of the economic crisis.   

  !!!!!????  You know that is a truck load of BS. 

   If they're going to give him Kim Jong Il treatment why don't they just go ahead and make it 100% approval accompanied by reports of people spontaneously shouting praises of our Dear Leader.

CBS is correct: Under Obama's leadership, the US will garner respect of world...  leaders.

Reporter Chip Reid showcased more positive poll results for Obama's trip, as “67 percent of Americans believe the President will return to the U.S. with the respect of world leaders.”

Yup - they're going to love us:  Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Bashar al-Assad, Putin, Kim Jong-Il, Castro..

It's a love fest folks!

(;~/ gary

This is BS; what do you expect from CBS/NYT? Rasmussen daily tracking poll has him at 58%, a couple points up from late March when he bottomed at 55%. He's where President George W. Bush was at this point in his first term. Where would he be if the liberal media was reporting his bowing to a Soddy king, and not knowing how to speak 'Austrian', his strikeout on support for AF, and his other hum and haw foobars? He's a clown.

Rasmussen Daily Bamster Poll: http://www.rasmussenreports.com

Where the heck do these people polled get their news? 

That's a higher percentage than even voted for him.

Smells fishy...

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

I just voted an "F" and helped keep him at 43%.

LMAO.

On page 24 of the PDF from the CBS News/NY Times poll (the last page), the pollsters say they spoke to 998 people.  Of those, 349 were Dems; 385 were Independents; and 264 were Republicans.  When they applied their "weighting" to the numbers, the Dems were 391; Independents were 377; and the Republicans drop to 230.

Now I'm no expert, but are we to believe that only a quarter of voters identify themselves as Republicans?  I know a lot of people distanced themselves from the GOP in the last election, but is the GOP that weak?  Or is the poll sample so distorted that it would inflate Obama's approval rating?

It's a question that statisticians ought to investigate. 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Drudge has had the Pew Poll saying that Obama is the most polarizing president at this point ever.  Who is right?  Pew isn't exactly a right wing polling outfit.

 When you have CBS/New York Times conducting the poll you know where the slant will be.

the founder and president of the Media Research Center (the parent of NewsBusters), has an excellent article at Investors Business Daily titled How 'Opinion' Is Manipulated In Washington that helps explain how the media can manipulate poll numbers to suit their taste.

Early in March I posted an example of the liberal bias of John Zogby, who runs the supposedly "independent and non-partisan" Zogby International polling firm. Mr. Zogby wrote the following at U.S.News & World Report:

"The chief weapons in President Obama's arsenal continue to be his personal popularity, his ability to communicate, and the Republicans' uncanny ability to shoot themselves in their heads and their feet. On Republican and conservative websites, Obama takes a beating on his stimulus plan. On Wall Street, he is accused of destroying wealth, and at last weekend's CPAC convention for conservatives, Rush Limbaugh professes his desire that the president fail. Advice to all three: You lost the election, you have very little credibility outside of your base, and you are helping to make the president look even better."

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“Nobody believes what the mainstream media says now anyway.  Except the uneducated, the illiterate, and the uninformed -- which, sadly, is a fairly large number” ~ Rush Limbaugh

I see suprising hypocrisy over the Bamster in muslim countries. He was born to a muslim father, and according to muslim law that makes the Bamster a muslim, period. He was registered at school in Indonesia as a muslim, and has commented many times on his sympathy for islam and how he would stand with islam should the time come. He has said that the muslim call-to-prayer is 'one of the most beautiful sounds in the world'.

Whatever happened between Indonesia and Chicago, by traditional muslim law he is either still a muslim or if he has rejected islam then he is apostate. Apostasy generally sends muslims into a rage of protesting and burning things. Why is the Bamster being given a pass? Or is the rage not being reported? Or do they think he is still a muslim?