Obama's Second Year Widened the Partisan Divide on How He Is Seen

For those of who remember the great divide began during Reagan years, when middle class workers felt that minorities and the poor were their enemies, that myth a lot in part created by Reagan who convinced middle class Americans that they were too stupid to vote, litigate or manage their own money. So ever since the Republicans have convinced America that terms limit gives voters a choice, that they are too stupid to decide in a court of law what is liable, and that Social Security was funds for Republicans to use as a discretionary fund.

I wonder who these 13% of Republicans are that think Obama is doing a good job? A good job at what?

Why all the comments about race , we are all Americans but with different ideas about the way our country is run!! I don't care what color Obama is may God bless
him and his family! I would vote for him if he and I agreed on policy but we don't! People need to lay down the race card and just talk about our different
views! Sure we have many news programs that lean one way or the other but thats good for debate ,we don't need to cut off one or the other ,just listen to both and make a decision to vote on that .

Not one of the other presidents has had a 24 hour news network , that it appears their only job is weaken the image of the President.

Fox viewers don't even know what the truth of matters are if the only outlet they listen to is FOX. Fox is by far the least truthful of all the networks.

the president isn't doing anything but talking. when he talks everyone stops to listen. that is why he spends 364 days on the road talking. he doesn't really know how to bring people together except to listen to what he says he's gonna do. in business i have known many men like him who tell you all the things they are going to do to make more money and make their company a household word, and then there are a few who just do it. people who wet themselves when the president speaks thinks he is marvelous, and those of us that watch what is actually happening think...not so much.

One of the factors that may be fueling President Obama's recent rise in job approval polls is that Americans are feeling better about the economy. New figures from Gallup, gathered from its January tracking surveys, found optimism about the economy at its highest since the pollster began tracking it in 2008.

polarized or not. People will vote in 2012 with the wallets and the economy is improving. Most people with the ability to buy and trade stocks are mostly republican and are loving the current situation now as the stock market is booming. Who cares what Beck and the tea party say and lets all ignore Sarah and watch our President continue to move us in the right direction.

This is a totally different era. U have internet, 24 hour cable. The polarization has come from the right. The rise of fox (not) news. They have even purge their own party to the loonys and the far right! This is bogus based how far the right has gone. Also he is black. They dont mention that. The false rumors and the muslim rhetoric and hate. please. The right and whites have lost it sonce this man has become president. The right has none of the facts right and its all rhetoric. No matter what this guy does he will not get credit for anything from the right. Thats the difference.

Many moderate Republicans have left the party in the last few years. Some became Democrats but most registered as Independents. I wonder what the "gap" is between Republicans, Democrats and Independents.

January 2011 - 187,000 jobs added. Just last night the Nightly Business Report said that the Dow is soaring because our manufacturing sector is at a six year high. They also report weekly where the jobs are being created -It is time to acknowledge that President Obama and his administration and legislation is indeed working. GOD BLESS PRESIDENT OBAMA