President Obama’s Approval Rating Jumps 5 Points as Millions Sign Up for Obamacare

[babylonsister]

President Obama’s Approval Rating Jumps 5 Points as Millions Sign Up for Obamacare
By: Jason Easley
Wednesday, January, 1st, 2014, 2:09 pm


President Obama is beginning 2014 on the upswing as millions are signing up for the ACA, and his approval rating has increased by 5 points according to Gallup.

The Gallup Obama approval daily tracking poll reveals that the president’s approval rating has jumped five points since the days before Christmas from 39%-44%. Disapproval of the president has fallen from 54%-49%. President Obama’s approval numbers shift wildly based on the tone of the media coverage that he is receiving, but media’s negativity was hiding a convergence of positive things.

Now that the ACA website is repaired, and millions of Americans are signing up, the media’s endless drumbeat of negativity has temporarily stopped. Without the Republican fueled Obama bashing from the corporate media, the president’s approval rating has gone up, and his disapproval rating has gone down.

Republicans and the media have consistently failed to understand, and in many cases actively worked to undermine, the fact that President Obama remains basically popular. For the sixth year in a row, the president was named the most admired man in the world. For as much as Republicans try to project their hatred and contempt for this president on to the nation, the rest of the country has never shared their feelings.

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[lame54]

1. And here we go...

it just takes patience

[Dawson Leery]

2. Ras has had Obama at 46% approve/51% disapprove as an average

during the ACA rollout. Those numbers are better than the Q poll and Gallup.

[okaawhatever]

3. Can you imagine his popularity if we had the media we had thirty years ago? Prior to consolidation

and corporate takeover/foreign ownership we would all view him completely differently. Ditto the current state of affairs.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. seriously. n/t

[Cha]

5. That's gotta burn the koch-ayn rand wing which

includes most repubteabaggers! And, coincidently Great for America!

Thanks babylonsistah!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

6. Whoops!

Better find the next talking point, FAUX

[Iliyah]

7. GOPers are still gonna bash Obamacare

because they think they have a winner. Just like when the GOPers thought they were going to win the WH and said that the polls that had Pres O ahead were wrong. They believed that anything positive concerning Dems were wrong, so with that type of mindset, they will go forward with all out war against ACA. It wouldn't surprise me when they comes back to what they call work and repeal Obamacare for the 100th time.

[Scurrilous]

8. K & R

[SidDithers]

9. DU rec...nt

Sid

[nobodyspecial]

10. Wait until more people get signed up and the help they need.

I just hope the estimated 3 million in the GOP-controlled states who fall through the expanded Medicaid gap know who to blame. The GOP screwed them in hopes of making Obama fail.

[panader0]

11. What gets me is how so many people can change their mind so fast. Back and forth.

[Nictuku]

12. I bet it won't be mentioned in tomorrow's morning news...

... unlike how a lowering in approval rating is mentioned at least 20 times on Morning Joe.

[sheshe2]

13. GOP and Media Fail!

Love that!