Obama v. Limbaugh: Poll finds it's no contest

[struggle4progress]

BY STEVEN THOMMA
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

... The survey found that 65 percent of Americans approve of the way Obama is doing his job roughly 50 days into his presidency. That was down slightly from 69 percent a month ago.

At the same time, 29 percent disapprove of Obama's performance, a small increase from 26 percent a month ago. The poll of 1,070 adults taken last Thursday through Monday has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Still, the president's numbers remain high, roughly twice as high as his predecessor's in his final year in office and more than twice as high as those for Limbaugh, the right-wing radio talk-show host.

The poll found 30 percent of Americans with favorable opinions of Limbaugh, and 46 percent with unfavorable opinions. A solid 33 percent of all Americans have "very unfavorable" opinions of the talk show host ... http://www.miamiherald.com/515/story/944436.html

[corruptmewithpower]

1. What does Camille Paglia see in the big blowhard?

[steven johnson]

2. I don't think we're Rush Limbaugh's target audience

Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is viewed favorably by 60% of Republicans nationwide, while 23% have an unfavorable opinion of him. In sharp contrast, only 6% of Democrats view Limbaugh favorably, while 63% view him unfavorably.

Limbaugh Well-Liked by Many, but Not All, Republicans

[struggle4progress]

3. Gasbag's demographic more or less coincides with the BushCo bitter-enders: so,

in fact, Republican = Bush = Limbaugh is a winning message for us for a while

[endersdragon34]

4. Wouldn't Limbaugh v. Moore make more sense

Compare extremeist talking heads to other extremeist talking heads.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Why, I would LOVE to see such a poll.

And I don't think you would like the results of THAT either.

[sunwestdog]

8. Apple's and oranges

True, both are extremists, but the difference is Moore is fact based extremism and Limbaugh is make up crap extremism.

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[lk9550]

7. Great news

Take that Repubs.