CNN Poll: Drop in liberal support pushes Obama approval rating down

[sasha031]

(CNN) – President Barack Obama's approval rating is down to 45 percent, driven in part by growing dissatisfaction on the left with the president's track record in office, according to a new national survey.The survey's Friday release comes as the Obama administration and top congressional officials continue talks on a potential deal tying roughly $3 trillion in new savings over the next decade to an increase in the nation's debt ceiling. If Congress and the President fail to raise the country's $14.3 trillion limit by August 2, Americans could face rising interest rates, a declining dollar and increasingly jittery financial markets, among other problems.

According to the poll, the president's 45 percent approval rating is down three points from June. Fifty-four percent of people questioned disapprove of how Obama's handling his duties, up six points from last month. His 54 percent disapproval rating ties the all-time high in CNN polling that the president initially reached just before last year's midterm elections.
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[DutchLiberal]

1. "38 % say they disapprove because President Obama has been too liberal"?!

And that's 38% of all those questioned on the left!

WTF?! Where do they *find* these people?!

[The Magistrate]

4. That Figure is Not Among Leftists, Sir

The operative figure is that the number of people disapproving because they think the President has not been liberal enough has about doubled, from 7% to 13%.

[DutchLiberal]

6. Yes it is: among leftists, 38% say he has been too liberal, 13% say not liberal enough.

[Bluenorthwest]

17. That is not what the poll reports at all.

The 38% 'too liberal' matches the 37% which say 'Republican policy would be better'. The word 'leftist' is not even used in the poll. The 38% is from all respondents, from all Parties. The poll is there for all to read.

[The Magistrate]

21. No, Sir, That is Nit What It says

It is a poorly constructed paragraph, but the 'drill down into the figures and you see signs of discontent on the left' does not mean all figures following refer to self-described leftists. In fact the figures that follow are for the undifferentiated populace responding to the poll, with the first figure given presumed to be conservatives and the latter figure presumed to be leftists.

[ClarkUSA]

5. Only "13 percent say they disapprove of Obama because he has not been liberal enough"

That's double May's numbers. Whew.. a huge 6.5% increase in a tiny minority of malcontents! :sarcasm:

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[progressoid]

16. He also has 11% approval from Tea Baggers.

Go figure.

[ClarkUSA]

24. Do you mean Republicans? Not all of them are teabaggers, obviously.

[progressoid]

27. Not false...From page 16 from the poll:

Question 1
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president?



________________Tea Pty Tea Pty Tea Pty
___________Total Support Neutral Oppose
___________----- ------- ------- -------
Approve ....... 45% 11% 43% 77%
Disapprove ... 54% 88% 54% 23%
No opinion ... 2% 1% 3%

[ClarkUSA]

28. Hmm... not all self-identified Tea Party types are unreasoning and hateful racists, it appears.

Either that, or some people are tweaking the pollsters. ;)

Thanks for the information. I stand corrected.

BTW, I edited my comment to reflect that.

[progressoid]

2. Nuh uh.

It's only the DUers that are pissed at him. The rest of America's liberals LUV him.

It twoo. I have a link!

[ClarkUSA]

3. Oh no!!!!!!! "Obama's approval rating among liberals has dropped to 71 percent"

"Thirty-eight percent say they disapprove because President Obama has been too liberal, but 13 percent say they disapprove of Obama because he has not been liberal enough - nearly double what it was in May, when the question was last asked, and the first time that number has hit double digits in Obama's presidency... the number of Democrats who want the party to renominate Obama next year, now at 77 percent, is relatively robust by historical standards"

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Gee, this situation sounds really disastrous! :sarcasm:

FYI, ORC International is not a well-recognized name in polling to my knowledge. I'll wait for other poll results.

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[corpseratemedia]

10. well, if he gets cuts to SS and Medicare enacted with or without raising taxes on the woeismewealthy

let's see where his support goes from there.

Cutting either program is anti-Democratic Party.

[chill_wind]

9. Hovering a bit above or below

in a lot of different poll numbers in the last week

07/21/11 Rasmussen permalink Approve 46.0% Disapprove 52.0%
07/21/11 Gallup permalink Approve 43.0% Disapprove 49.0%
07/20/11 Rasmussen permalink Approve 45.0% Disapprove 53.0%
07/20/11 Gallup permalink Approve 43.0% Disapprove 49.0%
07/20/11 CNN permalink Approve 45.0% Disapprove 54.0%
07/19/11 Rasmussen permalink Approve 44.0% Disapprove 54.0%
07/19/11 Gallup permalink Approve 42.0% Disapprove 48.0%
07/18/11 Harris Interactive permalink Approve 38.0% Disapprove 62.0%
07/18/11 Zogby permalink Approve 43.0% Disapprove 57.0%
07/18/11 Rasmussen permalink Approve 44.0% Disapprove 54.0%
07/18/11 Gallup permalink Approve 44.0% Disapprove 47.0%
07/17/11 Rasmussen permalink Approve 45.0% Disapprove 54.0%
07/17/11 Gallup permalink Approve 44.0% Disapprove 48.0%
07/17/11 ABC/WaPo permalink Approve 47.0% Disapprove 48.0%
07/17/11 NBC/WSJ permalink Approve 47.0% Disapprove 48.0%
07/17/11 PPP (D) permalink Approve 46.0% Disapprove 48.0%
07/16/11 Rasmussen permalink Approve 45.0% Disapprove 54.0%
07/16/11 Gallup permalink Approve 44.0% Disapprove 49.0%

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

In the end, no one poll means that much by itself, IMHO, when you look at the aggregate (graph) over the last year or so. It's not been very dramatic. It could start getting interesting from here, though.

[ProSense]

11. Interesting stuff

His overall approval dropped 9 points since May (when it was 54 percent). From the PDF

1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president?

Approve
July 18-20 45%
June 3-7 48%
May 24-26 54%


From the OP article:

<...>

Obama's approval rating among liberals has dropped to 71 percent, the lowest point in his presidency. And the number of Democrats who want the party to renominate Obama next year, now at 77 percent, is relatively robust by historical standards but is also down a bit since June.

<...>

Question 43
Do you think the Democratic party should renominate Barack Obama as the party's candidate for
president in 2012, or do you think the Democratic party should nominate a different candidate
for president in 2012?

Base = Democrats

Renominate Obama
Total 77%
Democrat 81%
Independent 69%
Liberal 84%
Moderate 76%

Those are great numbers.

[QC]

12. Fortunately, 867% of liberal Democrats still support him!

:silly:

[ProSense]

13. Here are the

actual numbers from the poll

[myrna minx]

15. I thought it was a brazilian percent!

:silly:

[progressoid]

18. Yep! And everybody know that high polling numbers equals good policy.

:banghead:

[PoliticAverse]

29. But are they less likely to actually go and vote for him... n/t

[ClarkUSA]

31. Where in the poll does it say that? 84% of liberals want to renominate Pres. Obama.

Furthermore, the poll says the renomination number is very "robust", historically speaking.

[Maven]

33. That's right and DUers are IRRELLLLLEVANNNNNNNNT

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. Oh, that's OK. Ignoring the left is smart politics. Ask LBJ.

And, President Humphrey.

[Liberalynn]

19. Self deleted dupe

[Liberalynn]

20. Primary, Primary, Primary

I don't care what the odds are against it succeeding. If we are going to go down anyway we might as well go down fighting.

[JoePhilly]

25. Its not HAPPENING, let alone SUCCEEDING.

[blkmusclmachine]

23. Obama's numbers will go down after his attack on SS/M&M gets signed in:

And I don't think he cares one way or the other.

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[ClarkUSA]

30. These are terrific numbers: 84% of liberals and 81% of Dems overall want to renominate Obama.

Question 43

Do you think the Democratic party should renominate Barack Obama as the party's candidate for
president in 2012, or do you think the Democratic party should nominate a different candidate
for president in 2012?

Base = Democrats

Renominate Obama
Total 77%
Democrat 81%
Independent 69%
Liberal 84%
Moderate 76%{/div]

:)

[Shagbark Hickory]

32. Librull support doesn't matter one iota.