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.
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