News of the president’s job approval rating crawling out of the red spread like wild fire across largely left leaning media outlets. As well, the news lit up social media with liberals and progressives alike serving the good news as an indictment to their beloved president’s policies and leadership skills being the cause for the recent sign of life in the economy. But the good news was short lived, in fact it lasted only one day.
The grand jubilation was spurred by the results of a recent Gallup poll. Gallup reported that for the polling period of December 27 through 29 the president received and average 48% approval and 48% disapproval, putting him in the black for the first time since September of 2013. The following day, the Gallup three day rolling average reported that the president’s job approval had fallen back in to the red and has since been on the decline. Gallup uses a three day rolling average methodology to determine their polling results.
Despite the immediate reversal of the presidents rising job approval, the liberal media persisted and for days following the release of the net neutral job approval poll ran stories attributing the already erased upward trend to such things as the president’s efforts to normalize relations with Cuba, his executive action to defer the deportation of illegal immigrants and a growing economy, despite 5 ½ years of near stagnation. Failing to acknowledge that the shift in the presidents negative approval rating lasted only a day and their willingness to push stories based on a false narrative of the president’s rising popularity, the media duped Obama supporters in to thinking just that. With few exceptions, the media has failed to report on the following day’s downturn and continued falling of President Obama’s job approval rating.
It is understandable that after having just taken a beating in the mid-term election and the president being highly criticized for his recent executive actions, that the liberal media would take advantage of any opportunity they can to paint a picture of positive perception of the president to whom they have given their unconditional support. President Obama has not provided his party with much for them to brag about over the years and despite the strong economic growth and solid jobs numbers over recent months, the president is still struggling to earn any credit as most feel that we are seeing too little far far too late.
The hype will be short lived however, as folks on the left realize that their president’s popularity in the polls was a mere day in length. Nothing has changed and the stories of the president gaining steam as he enters the final two years of his presidency will have vanished before the next news cycle starts. As well, the social media stars will stop with their claims of the president’s rising popularity and revert back to claiming republican obstructionism for all his failures.
And while Obama supporters may for the moment feel that they have been duped by the media, they remain poised and ready, wanting to be the first to spread the next bit of good news regarding their beloved president no matter how over embellished or non-factual the story may be.
It must be noted that in choosing the Gallup poll results to drive their headline, in doing so the liberal media had to ignored all other major polling outlets, everyone one of which were reporting the president’s job approval well in negative territory. Since May of last year, the Real ClearPolitics average has had the president’s job approval 7 percentage points or greater in the red. But the liberal media has never seemed too concerned about fair and balanced reporting when it comes to protecting their agenda and this president.
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