Obama’s Job Approval Hits New Low
According to Zogby’s most recent interactive survey results, President Barack Obama’s job approval rating has dropped to a record low of 45% among likely voters nationwide. About 51% of the respondents disapprove of his job as president.
Groups that are more likely to approve of his job as president are Democrats (84%), females (54%), African Americans (84%), liberals (94%), 18-to-29 year olds (57%), respondents who do NOT consider themselves members of the investor class (54%), and those who never shop at Wal-Mart (67%).
Groups that are more likely to disapprove of his job as president are Republicans (91%), males (60%), conservatives (95%), respondents who are married (59%), members of the investor class (65%), those who attend religious services at least once a week (63%), and those who shop at Wal-Mart every month (61%).
In another question, where respondents were asked “how would you rate Barack Obama’s job as president — excellent, good, fair or poor?”, 16% of the sample chose “Excellent”, 27% “Good”,11% “Fair” and 45% “Poor”. Within Democrats, 80% chose “Excellent” or “Good”, compared to only 7% of Republicans. Among those unaffiliated to either of the major parties, 35% rated the President’s job performance as “Excellent” or “Good”.
“None of these numbers looks counter-intuitive to me. Gallup, NBC, and Pew all have Obama at record lows. Rasmussen also shows low approval. Things are volatile out there and news travels fast. There is a lot of anxiety over healthcare,” said Zogby International President and CEO John Zogby. “The President let it get away from him and voters are scared right now. They are experiencing sacrifice overload and feel more threatened than empowered. The President is being forced to play defense and he is much better when he is in possession of the ball. But do not underestimate Obama. Last August he was toast.”
For Zogby’s latest press release on the survey results, please visit: http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.cfm?ID=1734
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“The President is being forced to play defense and he is much better when he is in possession of the ball. But do not underestimate Obama. Last August he was toast.”
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Yeah, but that was PRE-Obama in “the House!”.
WRONG!
Last August: everyone was still doing the “Hopey-Changey” swoon !
Now, they’ve seen this dismantler in action – and they feel
Sunday-punched!
The sleeping Giant was RUDELY AWAKENED, and he’s ticked off!
And… No one likes: Gibbs, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Dodd, Murtha, Emanuel,
or Axelrod, either. And the list goes on! Not only will these people be done re their current positions, they may very well be “toast” in anything “politics” from now on.
They have taken the rope-a-dope and ceremoniously HANGED THEMSELVES.
The Dems have always had a knack for this. I’m just so pleasantly surprised that it happened even faster than I ever dreamed possible! Whew!
I agree with John Zogby’s comment not to underestimate Obama. We in the United States are in the midst of troubling economic times, and it easy for people to forget who caused it and the alternative that would have been the result if the bank bail-out and and the economic stimulus had NOT been put in place by Obama, the Fed and Congress. If McCain and Palin had been elected and the Democrats NOT gained in the House and Senate, market forces would have been allowed to cause a financial collapse and a associated depression. It is easy to forget the failure of deregulation pushed so long under GOP leadership.
It takes some time for the economy to fully recover after this downturn, but, of course, voters only want to think of their current problems. We don’t like the apparent reward for those who caused the problems with the bank bail-outs under TARP. And we see the increasing deficits NOW but in most cases, we can’t see the benefits which will take longer.
But several months is a long time in politics and it is premature to start think the incompetent GOP is going to recover in political fortunes, since they have nothing to offer. It is very premature to start talking now about what will happen in November of 2009 let alone November 2010.
Of course, we do not want to have single party rule without a viable opposition. But the GOP has to start showing responsible opposition rather than unbridled negativity with nothing to offer. That is the continuing long-term advantage they hold.
As far as health care is concerned, the GOP has only pushed ‘lies’, like the DEATH PANELS they based on nothing. But the Democrats have to recraft the reform bill to make us see a beginning to benefits prior to 2010, rather than not until 2013.
Barack Obama is facing the toughest choices any president has ever had to face. Of course his numbers are going to go down some simply because the decisions he’s making are going to upset some people. That being said, I did not vote for Obama in the primary last year because I thought Hillary Clinton would have made a better president, and to this day, I still think so.
Obama has one main problem, he’s listening to his liberal base too much. I’m not either liberal or conservative, but if Obama started listening to the more moderate wing of the Democratic party, I think he’d be better off. Passing health care is a noble gesture, but passing it for the sake of just getting something passed is not the way to go.
I agree with Joe Lieberman. By all means, health care should be a top priority, but the deficit is THE top issue today. I just want to know how much are we going to add to the deficit by passing this!!! Obama should weigh that question very carefully.