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Gallup: 40/53 (Disapproval Up One Since Yesterday, Approval Unchanged)Apologies for always linking this, but, again, I am looking for confirmation of my belief the last month constituted a tipping point or preference cascade, not just a short-term blip, but an enduring loss of support. (Actually, per preference cascade theory, it's not so much a loss of support as an acknowledgement that support has been lost; the theory goes that some of the public has long doubted/opposed Obama, but only with the latest horrific news have they stopped concealing this and become comfortable saying aloud what they've long believed.) So the approximate 39-40 approval, 51-54 disapproval level continues to hold. This article claims that you'll know he's gone when his personal favorability rating starts to fall. The theory is the personal favorability rating represents the upper bound of possible public support; that's the highest level, and will be reached (but not exceeded, or not by much anyway) when the President is helped by favorable news. So the personal favorability rating is the ceiling of his plausible level of support or vote share in the elections. There is no real floor, except for the 36% of the public that will vote Democratic no matter what the hell happens. A high personal-favorability rating can bolster a lousy job-approval rating. But once the personal rating falls, rehabilitating a president's professional image becomes much more difficult. Voters can decide they're simply done rooting for a president to succeed, as they did with [Bush after 2005]. The claim is made that job approval ratings fluctuate based on current news and mood, whereas personal favorability is both more enduring, and harder to get back -- once someone decides they're done with you, it's hard to ever get them back. The difference is between "My employee is screwing up lately" -- an attitude that can be changed with better performance -- and "My employee is a screw-up" -- an enduring personal assessment of unworthiness which is harder to overcome by hard work.
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