Obama Approval Rating Improving
 

SUBJECT: President Obama’s approval rating


Obama Approval Rating Improving In Crucial States
Gallup: Obama Approval Rating Improving In Crucial States | TPMDC

President Obama has seen some hits to his national approval rating over the last few weeks as residue from the bruising debt debate, although Congress is even worse off since the almost-default. But new data from Gallup released on Monday shows a much more coherent and specific picture of Obama's job approval as he ramps up his 2012 election campaign, and how his approval rating looks when set against the modern electoral map.
The president did receive a 50% or higher approval rating in a few more states during the first half of 2011 than he did in 2010 -- 16 compared with 12, along with the District of Columbia in both time periods. His approval rating crept back to the 50% level in Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota in the first part of 2011 after being below that level in those states in 2010

Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Three states that the President almost certainly needs to win to make the electoral math work. Some other crucial states just below the fifty percent mark: Iowa at 49%, Pennsylvania at 48%, Florida at 47%, and southern Democratic beachheads Virginia and North Carolina are at 46%.

There were also some trouble spots for the President. In Oregon, a state that has gone Democratic since 1992, Obama only notched 44% approval. He scored the same in Colorado and Nevada, states that Obama flipped from the 2004 election, and 46% in New Mexico, a state Obama was able to win in 2008 and Al Gore took in 2000.

The sample sizes for individual states are available here. Gallup describes the margin of error for individual state polls as mostly plus or minus four percent.

Gallup: Obama's not losing his base

Despite much grumbling from the left in Congress and online, President Barack Obama isn’t losing his base and has largely maintained his liberal support, a new Gallup Poll found.
Of self-described liberals, 72 percent still approve of Obama’s job performance, down 7 points since the beginning of June but up 2 percentage points from mid-July, the poll found.

“Obama’s support among Americans who identify themselves as both liberal and Democratic was 83 percent last week, little changed from previous weeks and slightly higher relative to Obama’s overall approval rating than it has been historically,” Gallup said.

“Although President Obama’s job approval rating hit the low point of his administration during the past week and is down among most subgroups, there are no signs yet that he has taken a disproportionate hit among his traditional base of liberals and Democrats. On a relative basis, both of these groups remain as loyal to Obama compared with Americans overall as they have been on average since he took office in January 2009,” Gallup added.
The president’s overall approval rating is at 42 percent, down from 50 percent at the beginning of June.

The poll was conducted last week, so the effects of Congress and Obama finally reaching a deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling and avoiding a national default are not measured in the survey.

Compared with the beginning of June, Obama lost no more support from liberals than he did from self-described moderates, 49 percent of which still approve of his work, or conservatives, from whom he has a 22 percent approval rating.
The poll is consistent to Gallup’s numbers throughout the Obama presidency, it said. Democrats typically rate Obama 33 percentage points higher than his overall rating, while independents rate him 4 points lower and Republicans 34 points lower than the national average. This week’s approval ratings are largely consistent with the historical trend.

Read more: Gallup: Obama's not losing his base - Reid J. Epstein - POLITICO.com







Disclaimer: This information was taken from a Gallup Poll; not my own personal Poll ; if you disagree please direct your anger, rage and PMs to Gallup.com

I expect the 47% that pay no Federal Income taxes to love Obama, not just the far left, not paying your fair share is great if you are part of the 47% and not so for those paying there way:kick:

What about the 90% of America that spends the most ... known as the backbone of the American economy ?

Those with money...who happen to spend the most have been villianized by the Left for not contributing enough...guess 40-70% is just plain not enough of a contribution to the greater good.

Get back to me with the results of a Gallup poll taken after the events of the last week. You know, when a Democratic President and a Democratic Senate blamed 10 freshmen members of the House for destroying the credit rating of the United States.

When American's voted for "Change" they didn't mean from Bad to Worse. That's why the Tea Party arose. Because electing Obama and giving the Democrats control of Congress was akin to throwing gas on a fire and We the People understand you cannot fund every single social program in the world.

Universal Healthcare is a great idea, free education for everyone is a great idea, paying people not to grow crops is a great idea, a social safety net for people who can;t seem to find a job for two years is a great idea...

At some point you have to ask the 50% of the population who pay for all those great ideas if they are willing to keep feeding the pig.

If you can;t get the 50% of the population who aren't paying taxes to think you're doing a great job, then you are screwed.

How does retail spending mesh with a government funded by taxes on income?

Yeah but you're asking the same people who destroyed America what's fair & balanced ... and they're giving you the same plan that got us to where we are today and now worse ... 2000 points lost in 2 weeks ... who do you think got hit the worst ... podunk libtards or the wealthy ?

:rofl::rofl::rofl: You're not blaming todays mess on the Tea Party or conservatives. It's the out of control spending and the lacking leadership of the president who was unwilling to make the tough choices and compromises required to avoid this. The president continues to be ok with kicking the can down the road..it appears to be catching up to him doesn't it.

Dude, don't run on the GOP/Tea Party ticket on this one ... they've already driven the price down on this stock and bond ...

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Zero taxes on the podunks so they spend more on Corp. products ?

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They attempted to address the real problems plaguing our Debt and Deficit issue. When a serious bill was passed, or even talked about you had everybody and their brother calling it draconian and other things. This is squarely the left and even the republicans who keep going along with it's fault.

Again, they're out of site and hiding ... should be good when they crawl-out from where ever they are ...

How exactly?

They are the only ones in DC talking about fixing the core problem.

I've said it before - you're blaming the brakes because the car goes too fast?

The markets only respond to confidence and *euphoria* (and to credit ratings) ... it wouldn't matter if you slashed entitlements by $4 Trillion or raised taxes by $4 Trillion ... if you cause uncertainty for weeks on end this is the effect ...



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Thank you, I do have a fundamental understanding of how the stock market functions.

Perhaps you're unclear on fact that the uncertainty in the market is caused by the fact that since they began rating the Federal Debt, the USA has always held a AAA rating. Since this has never happened before that is causing the uncertainty.

The fact that the Republican House and the Democratic Senate couldn't get to a bill and blaming that on a fractional minority of House members is disingenuous at best and bullshit at it's finest.

This is the first time in U.S. history the Debt-Ceiling was even an issue.
The longest Debt-ceiling debate I believe was about an hour under Nixon .. which was merely acknowledging the implications say, as the Founding Fathers would digress ...

This is the first time in U.S. History that an AAA credit rating was lowered and as a double wammy because of the Debt-Ceiling debate.

The market decline we saw in the last 2 weeks had nothing to do with the U.S. debt and it's ceiling ... (see Denmark as the only other country with a Debt-ceiling which is so high as to never be attainable ...) ... it was caused by uncertainty of the Debt-Ceiling debate ...

It was a manufactured hoax by the GOP/Tea Party as the first time in U.S. History ... this was confirmed by Boehner, McConnel and the Tea Party as holding America hostage until they got 98% of what they wanted ... or cisis-causing filibuster ...

The right-wing wackos like West and Boehner are starting to creep out and blame Obama for this market downturn for not giving-in to them ...

I don't see how they can last now especially at the human capital level say like Wisconsin who are taking their state back ...

You need a new slogan now ..

Is there someone ... anyone here who can inform the uninformed ... that the Unemployed don't pay taxes ... never have and never will. So you can keep showing this 47% number from now until you're broke ... but there's only once place where you'll get tax revenue ... from PEOPLE WHO HAVE INCOME!

Basic math ... nothing from nothing comes nothing.

The middle class is not the only place to find revenue. :yesnod:

Well it's clear, you have no problem with the us running up so much debt that it would have to fold(see Greece) I on the other hand, really would like to see some fiscal sanity in Washington.

It only became a problem in January 2009 :yesnod:

Again, the crisis of debt is a hoax .. as S & P stated ...


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