I take it as a given that President Obama's popularity will get a boost from
the killing of Osama bin Laden. Polls so far are all over the lot; some show a
significant bounce, while Scott Rasmussen's daily tracking poll of likely
voters shows no improvement at all. Rasmussen's poll is a three-day running
average, so two-thirds of the interviews for today's survey were conducted
after the raid was announced:
Others have argued that the benefit to Obama will be transitory, and will
essentially be forgotten by November 2012. As many have pointed out, the first
President Bush's approval rating was sky-high at about the same point in his
re-election cycle (March 1991) as a result of the Gulf War, but that effect
was long gone by November 1992.
It is true that the election is a long way off, but I think some permanent
benefit will accrue to President Obama as a result of the successful
operation. Whether deserved or not, presidents get credit when things go well
and blame when things go badly. Many voters have had doubts about Obama's
national security credentials, and the fact that the bin Laden operation was a
success ...
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