Political Forum » Obama's Approval Rating - A Running Update

Lets keep track of Obama's approval rating over the course of his presidency.

It started at 65%.

60%

Today a fox news poll has the rating drop 5% so it now stands at 60%.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02 ... port-card/

Would you be open to a lottery on how low his approval rating will be by the end of the year?

I'm not sure what you have in mind with a lottery, but I would definitely be willing to make a bragging rights prediction on this one. Of course, I would want to research Jimmy Carter's approval rating history trends before I formulated my predictions about Obama's approval ratings. Regardless, a 5% drop in one month doesn't extrapolate well for Obama.

Bragging rights would be adequate, I should have used a better word than "lottery." I estimate Obama will be down to 40% by November.

Obama is a smooth talker so won't go that low that fast. I predict just under 50% by November.

According to a Harris Poll Obama's approval rating has slipped to 59%. This is not real news, what is news is the poll also showing his disapproval rating slipping from 18% to 24%.

58%

Latest poll shows Obama rating has slipped another point, that is 12 points since he was sworn in.

MSNBC poll: Obama earns 'F' on performance
In survey of more than 100,000, president gets failing grade

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Posted: March 10, 2009
6:20 pm Eastern


By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily


President Obama has earned a grade of "F" for his performance in office.

He received a failing mark in an MSNBC unscientific online survey after having spent less than two months in the White House.



In its "Give President Obama a Grade" survey, MSNBC asked more than 109,000 repondents, "If you were grading Barack Obama on his performance as president, what would he get?"

More than half of all respondents – or 60 percent – gave Obama an "F."

Only 16 percent said the president has earned an "A," while 6.4 percent gave him a "B," 5 percent answered a "C" and 12 percent said he has earned a "D."

I guess the MSNBC audience had their expectations set way too high

MARCH 13, 2009 Obama's Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth Article

By DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN and SCOTT RASMUSSEN
It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama's high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express increasingly significant doubts about his initiatives, and most likely support a different agenda and different policies from those that the Obama administration has advanced.

Polling data show that Mr. Obama's approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001. Rasmussen Reports data shows that Mr. Obama's net presidential approval rating -- which is calculated by subtracting the number who strongly disapprove from the number who strongly approve -- is just six, his lowest rating to date.



M.E. CohenOverall, Rasmussen Reports shows a 56%-43% approval, with a third strongly disapproving of the president's performance. This is a substantial degree of polarization so early in the administration. Mr. Obama has lost virtually all of his Republican support and a good part of his Independent support, and the trend is decidedly negative.

A detailed examination of presidential popularity after 50 days on the job similarly demonstrates a substantial drop in presidential approval relative to other elected presidents in the 20th and 21st centuries. The reason for this decline most likely has to do with doubts about the administration's policies and their impact on peoples' lives.

There is also a clear sense in the polling that taxes will increase for all Americans because of the stimulus, notwithstanding what the president has said about taxes going down for 95% of Americans. Close to three-quarters expect that government spending will grow under this administration.

Recent Gallup data echo these concerns. That polling shows that there are deep-seated, underlying economic concerns. Eighty-three percent say they are worried that the steps Mr. Obama is taking to fix the economy may not work and the economy will get worse. Eighty-two percent say they are worried about the amount of money being added to the deficit. Seventy-eight percent are worried about inflation growing, and 69% say they are worried about the increasing role of the government in the U.S. economy.

When Gallup asked whether we should be spending more or less in the economic stimulus, by close to 3-to-1 margin voters said it is better to have spent less than to have spent more. When asked whether we are adding too much to the deficit or spending too little to improve the economy, by close to a 3-to-2 margin voters said that we are adding too much to the deficit.

Support for the stimulus package is dropping from narrow majority support to below that. There is no sense that the stimulus package itself will work quickly, and according to a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, close to 60% said it would make only a marginal difference in the next two to four years. Rasmussen data shows that people now actually oppose Mr. Obama's budget, 46% to 41%. Three-quarters take this position because it will lead to too much spending. And by 2-to-1, voters reject House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's call for a second stimulus package.

While over two-thirds support the plan to help homeowners refinance their mortgage, a 48%-36% plurality said that it will unfairly benefit those who have been irresponsible, echoing Rick Santelli's call to arms on CNBC.

And although a narrow majority remains confident in Mr. Obama's goals and overall direction, 45% say they do not have confidence, a number that has been growing since the inauguration less than two months ago. With three-quarters saying that they expect the economy to get worse, it is hard to see these numbers improving substantially.

There is no real appetite for increasing taxes to pay for an expanded health-insurance program. Less than half would support such an idea, which is 17% less than the percentage that supported government health insurance when Bill Clinton first considered it in March of 1993.

While voters blame Republicans for the lack of bipartisanship in Washington, the fact is that they do not believe Mr. Obama has made any progress in improving the impulse towards cooperation between the two parties. Further, nearly half of voters say that politics in Washington will be more partisan over the next year.

Fifty-six percent of Americans oppose giving bankers any additional government money or any guarantees backed by the government. Two-thirds say Wall Street will benefit more than the average taxpayer from the new bank bailout plan. This represents a jump in opposition to the first plan passed last October. At that time, 45% opposed the bailout and 30% supported it. Now a solid majority opposes the bank bailout, and 20% think it was a good idea. A majority believes that Mr. Obama will not be able to cut the deficit in half by the end of his term.

Only less than a quarter of Americans believe that the federal government truly reflects the will of the people. Almost half disagree with the idea that no one can earn a living or live "an American life" without protection and empowerment by the government, while only one-third agree.

Despite the economic stimulus that Congress just passed and the budget and financial and mortgage bailouts that Congress is now debating, just 19% of voters believe that Congress has passed any significant legislation to improve their lives. While Congress's approval has increased, it still stands at only 18%. Over two-thirds of voters believe members of Congress are more interested in helping their own careers than in helping the American people. When it comes to the nation's economic issues, two-thirds of voters have more confidence in their own judgment than they do in the average member of Congress.

Finally, what probably accounts for a good measure of the confidence and support the Obama administration has enjoyed is the fact that they are not Republicans. Virtually all Americans, more than eight in 10, blame Republicans for the current economic woes, and the only two leaders with lower approval ratings than Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and John Boehner.

All of this is not just a subject for pollsters and analysts to debate. It shows fundamentally that public confidence in government remains low and is slipping. We face the possibility of substantial gridlock along with an absolute absence of public confidence that could come to mirror the lack of confidence in the American economy that the Dow and the S&P are currently showing.

Rasmussen has it at 56% today.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... ex_history

All of you bring me hope that America is moving in the right direction. Washington D.C. Barak Obama inspired the nation. He gave us hope. He proved that, once again, the American Dream is Alive! Now you have the opportunity to own a piece of historic commemorative of this great moment in history.

And the wind of truth is blowing away the smoke and clouding the mirrors that Obama and his puppet masters, Rockerfeller, Rothschild, George Soros and the 100+ members of the Democracy alliance were operating behind, and folks don't lke what they see.

maybe a lot of people are finally realizing what a horrible mistake they made. i hope so

Rasmussen has it at 55% for 5 days in a row.

Wow I just notice that the strongly approve number is 34% while the strongly disapprove number is 32%. Note: on 1/22/09 these numbers were 44% strongly approve and only 14% strongly disapprove. What a difference a few months make.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... ex_history

I just checked and Rasmussen has Obama gaining ground.

Date 05/06/2009
Strongly Approve 37%
Strongly Disapprove 30%
Total Approve 57%
Total Disapprove 43%

Is it because the markets are doing better?

It went as low as 54% and now is is back to 57%. It is a mystery to me why it is going up. However, I am very confident it will go down again soon.

hopefully it wont last long

the public needs to figure out that alhough Obama is popular because of his charisma....every one of his policies are tremendously unpopula and leathol to America:

1) complaining about a deficit while tripling same is not a popular move with most Americans
2) his obsession of apologizing for our worldly good deeds. America have liberated more than half the earth masses and population of the world from WWI to WWII to winning the cold war. Do any of you remember the iron curtain? evil empire? more than half of the people on eath lived under the most horrible communist oppression. Cuba remain a jail and slavery is the law.
3) trying to criminalize past administration policies that kept us safe and out of harm
4)closing of Guantanamo
5) His obsession that terrorist rights are more important than american lives
6) calling waterboarding a torture but not speaking about head decapitation and other atrocities committed by the enemy
7)his socialist agenda of big government and high taxation
8) the stock market had his biggest drop the week he passed McCain in the polls, the market predicted his win. If he was smart...he should had gone on natinal TV and make one single statement: I am not going to raise capital gains...that would had stopped the bleeding and save the economy...but he is not smart or care about our economy as much as his socialist agenda.
9) the most important issue for our future is energy independance, not health care. If we become energy independant we can afford everything including health care and pay off the deficits. Instead he tripples the deficit before eliminating all the waste as promised....how are we going to pay for health care when we are deep in debt? The only thing he is growing is the deficit and the government...not jobs...where are the jobs? He is throwing money to the economy like crazy. As a good democrat that believe the solution to all is government spending and thowing money at the problems. If he would had done nothing, we would had been better off by now. What is needed is incentive to the private sector. Give every corporation a 15% tax credit towards their employees health care. This will help our business become more competitive globally. Every time the government reduces taxes, more is collected. It is a fact. It is the record, historically.
10) Obama policies are most unpopular but the Demoncats are using him to sell their unpopular and socialist agenda of bigger government and taxation. The more the government takes of your income the less freedom. High taxation = oppression. We must detach Obama from his policies or it will be death to America. Our enemies know this and this is one reason all our enemies like him most!

His policies will eventually catch up with him. Today his approval reached a new low at 53%.

Obama's approval is still at 53% today, but the interesting thing is his approval index went negative for the first time ever. The June 21, 2009 Rasmussen poll has 32% strongly approve and 34% strongly disapprove. You can read more about it in my blog posting:
http://oscarcan.blogspot.com/2009/06/ba ... aches.html

It is at 51% Approve now!

However, the big news is the Presidential Approval Index is at -8 with 30% strongly approving and 38% strongly disapproving.

I figured this ratings drop would happen, but I didn't anticipate it happening this fast.

Less than half of the people now approve: 49%

The real question ???? How do we get someone who is not a total doushe bag next time ?

cain= doushebag also