Obama Job Approval at 41%, Tying His Low

[stockholmer]

Source: Gallup

PRINCETON, NJ - The latest Gallup Daily tracking three-day average shows 41% of Americans approving of the job Barack Obama is doing as president. That ties his low as president, which he registered three times previously -- twice in August 2010 and once in October 2010.



The current 41% approval rating from April 12-14 polling includes interviews conducted before and after Obama announced his plan for deficit reduction on Wednesday. It also comes in the same week Congress is voting on the 2011 budget deal reached last Friday. The deal did not seem to have an immediate effect on the way Americans viewed Obama, given his 44% approval rating in the three days prior to the agreement and his 46% rating in the initial days after the agreement.

The economy is likely also a factor in Obama's declining ratings. Though unemployment is improving according to government estimates, the economic recovery remains slow and is being challenged by rising fuel prices. Presidents' approval ratings have historically suffered in times of high gas prices...........................................

Read more: http://www.gallup.com/poll/147140/Obama-Job-Approval-Tying-Low.aspx

[jezebel]

1. gas prices are killing everybody and it's bound to affect his approval. Hopefully for everyone,

prices will come down.

[flpoljunkie]

18. I think you're right.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. 15%+ real unemployment for two years has consequences

Let's hope that Wednesday's speech marks the end of the "but the Republicans suck more" strategy.

[totodeinhere]

3. But yet when put up against any potential GOP candidate, President Obama wins hands down in most

polls. You can find a poll to fit just about any agenda you want.

[2banon]

4. I'm curious how much of the population viewed Obama's speech

I wonder if anyone has done the number crunching wrt to cable viewers just during this week's speech. Not suggesting that those numbers would be indicative of anything significant but wondering if speech viewers were factored in the poll.

[ProSense]

5. Maybe the effects of Gallup's poll a few days earlier

Democrats, Republicans Differ Widely on Taxing the Rich

PRINCETON, NJ -- President Obama's call Wednesday for higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans highlights a partisan and class gulf in Americans' views on taxing the rich. Substantial majorities of Democrats and of those with low incomes endorse the idea of redistributing wealth by heavy taxes on the rich. Two-thirds or more of Republicans and of those with higher incomes disagree.



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Who knew President Obama called for "redistributing wealth by heavy taxes on the rich"?

Also, when did ending the Bush tax cuts become redistributing wealth and heavy taxes on the rich?

[Scuba]

6. Do you still beat your wife?

[pnwmom]

9. They're obviously testing out a campaign theme.

I'm disappointed that it seems to work, at least among Independents.

But can you tell me how averages of 44 and 46% yield a 41% overall?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

17. When they use the phrase "redistribute the wealth" that generates a negative response.

Asked in a different way, and perhaps we'll get more folks on our side.

[Fuddnik]

7. They must have missed that 387% of "Liberal Democrats".

[pnwmom]

8. How does a 44% and 46% average into a 41%?

What am I missing?

[FrenchieCat]

16. Gallup makes its own math.....?

Because yes, I agree...if he was at 44% 3 days prior, and 46% at least two days after, then 41% is impossible. I'm doing taxes today, and only reading here, now and then...but certainly a letter to them on this issue, and the loaded question they asked on that other survey demand letters to them....

[jwirr]

10. Job approval does not necessarily mean they won't vote for him.

A lot of us on DU do not like some of the things he does but will still vote for him because we cannot vote for a rethug.

[FrenchieCat]

11. Nobody said this shit would be easy......

Wonder how many Democrats who have shitted on the President regularily for
the past two years does this poll include?

You know...the ones that won't be working, donating or voting for his re-election.
I know there are quite a few here......and they have been very loud and clear.

It appears that those who wish his defeat should simply continue throwing rocks,
so that they can witness the ushering in of a new all Republican era!

So I think that this poll should be celebrated as a victory, by those who are so much more passionate in seeing this President defeated, than actually loudly supporting the issues that
the President also supports, and that they have claimed to hold so dear.

[pnwmom]

12. FrencieCat, can you tell me how the average approval ratings

of 46 and 46% turned into a 41% three day average?

What am I missing here?

[Drunken Irishman]

13. He probably had one really good day that dropped off their three-day average.

[pnwmom]

14. But it says he had

"44% approval rating in the three days prior to the agreement and his 46% rating in the initial days after the agreement."

How does this make a 41% average?

[jenmito]

15. The two previous approval numbers were 44% and 42%. It now fell to 41%. The 46% number is gone

from the average.