"BREAKING: In the past 12 months Obama's approval rating has dropped...."

[Clio the Leo]

.... only four points.

BREAKING: In the past 12 months Obama's approval rating has dropped 4 pts
September 02, 2010 10:03 am ET by Eric Boehlert

Hey, I'm just telling you what the daily tracking poll numbers at Gallup tells us:

-Aug. 30, 2009: 51 percent

-Sept. 1, 2010: 47 percent

I realize that Sean Hannity on Fox News last night announced that Obama had just suffered the worst August for any president ever. And I realize much of the Beltway press has echoed that sentiment, and in fact has spent much of this year pushing its beloved narrative about how Obama's polling numbers are "falling" fast, and that his presidency is in rapid decline.

But is it true?

Just because the mainstream media and the GOP Noise Machine are (surprise!) in heated agreement about that point, and have been for months, does that make it true? I realize pointing out the fact that Obama has lost four points in his Gallup polling numbers over the last 52 weeks won't do much to discourage that narrative, and who knows, maybe he's about to take a big hit in the Gallup poll and week from now he'll be down nine points vs. one year ago.

But it's it's always useful to address the facts. And the facts according to Gallup's daily tracking poll are that in the last 12 months Obama's approval rating has declined four points. That, in a poll that has margin of error of 3 points.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201009020007

Or, in other words....



http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/lifeandstyle/gallery/2008/oct/06/1/[e-mail]

[babylonsister]

1. Nice catch! Thank goodness for MM...

and of course you! :fistbump:

[Clio the Leo]

2. I'm just glad we've made it through August...

... I hate Augusts for so many reasons DC madness is just one of them.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

3. Let's get out there and work (and contribute) to deny the GOP this November. nt

[bdamomma]

4. I still like the man, I wouldn't want his job no way.

he is still cleaning up Bushies mess.

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[Peacetrain]

6. Ah yeppers..

Good Catch

[mrcheerful]

7. Well yahell headline is calling the President Mr. Unpopular

[WI_DEM]

8. and if any educated person looks at Gallup tracking poll it has been relatively stable for months

yes there have been blips up and down but by and large it's been 45-50 percent.

[zipplewrath]

11. I've rarely seen anything below 45.

I don't quite get where this "plummeting" thing comes from. Yeah, somewhere right after the election he was at 55, but that didn't last long. Considering the economy, anything above 40 is probably fantastic. That he's been able to sustain it above 47 through HCR and the summer, not to mention two wars that have little support, is pretty frickin' astonishing really.

[chill_wind]

14. That sounds about right. Here are the TPM poll averages:

going all the way back. (nice graph)

http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/contests/us-approval-obama

[impik]

9. People forget that he won 53-47, not 80-20.

[Clio the Leo]

12. exactly nt

[Pirate Smile]

The current media defines this as "plummeting".

[Pirate Smile]

10. The current media defines this as "plummeting".

edit to add - I guess I can say that again.

[newtothegame]

13. That stupid "CTFO" picture meant alot more before we got to see what "I got this" actually meant...n