From The Washington Times: Dismal new poll numbers for President Obama in Virginia and North Carolina underscore a growing danger to his 2012 re-election hopes — his job-approval ratings have dropped below 50 percent in all of the key states that he “flipped” from the Republicans in 2008. Mr. Obama was able to win three years ago mainly [...]
From NewsMax.com: Americans aren’t rejecting President Barack Obama’s jobs plan out of hand, but they aren’t embracing it with open arms, either. Two new polls show that, although more favor the president’s $447 billion plan than oppose it, their backing falls far short of half. A CNN/Opinion research poll shows that the public favors the [...]
From RedWhiteBlueNews.com: Barack Obama told CBS yesterday that his low approval numbers are a result of weather…Europe… an earthquake… bad luck… the tea party… the internet… public unhappiness with Congress. President Barack Obama prepares to putt while playing golf as a photographer, left, looks on at the Vineyard Golf Club, in Edgartown, Mass., on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Sunday, [...]
From NewsMax.com: Liberals’ support for President Barack Obama is dropping, according to a poll that also shows he has not won back independents despite his recent tax-cut deal with Republicans, The New York Times reports. The Marist University poll finds declining approval for Obama among all Democrats and no comparable rise in his standing with the [...]
From NewsMax.com: Things weren’t looking too good for President George W. Bush when he left office last year. They’re looking a whole lot better now, according to a new Gallup poll, Politico reports. The survey shows 47 percent of Americans approve of Bush’s presidency, up from 34 percent when he left office and from his November [...]
From Public Policy Polling: If this election is a referendum on Barack Obama then o boy are Democrats in trouble. In our final round of 18 polls we found the President with a positive approval rating among likely voters in only 1 state- Connecticut. Even there only 46% of voters expressed support for the job [...]
From Telegraph.co.uk: Why have American voters gone so sour on Barack Obama’s Democratic party? It’s a question that must puzzle many in Britain who – Conservative as well as Labour and Lib Dem – welcomed Obama’s election two years ago and saw him leading America and the world into broad, sunlit uplands. But now it [...]
From NewsMax.com: A new Gallup Poll released Thursday shows President Barack Obama’s approval rating at a new low. Only 44.7 percent of Americans approve of the job the president is doing in office, according to the poll conducted Oct. 14-17, down more than two percentage points from the most recent quarter. Only 39 percent of Americans [...]
From Michelle Malkin: “You voted for Obama to prove you’re not a racist. Now, who are you going to vote for to prove you’re not an idiot?” –Commenter at NBC-11(by way of Doug Ross) ******** Any businessperson will tell you that getting a lot of people to show up at your grand opening isn’t as nearly [...]
From CNSNews.com: The Obamamania that gripped college campuses two years ago is gone. An Associated Press-mtvU poll found college students cooling in their support for President Barack Obama, a fresh sign of trouble for Democrats struggling to rekindle enthusiasm among many of these newest voters for the crucial midterm elections in three weeks. Forty-four percent [...]
From Prison Planet: Americans are divided over whether President Barack Obama or his predecessor has performed better in the White House, according to a new national poll. And a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday also indicates in the battle for Congress, Republicans hold large advantages over the Democrats among independents, men and blue-collar whites. [...]
From Liberty.com: Across the board, Americans continue to reject President Obama and Washington Democrats’ economic policies. Under the headline, “Obama’s Approval Rating on Economy Falls Further,” CBS News reports on new survey results released today showing that half of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s handling of the economy: The President’s rating on the economy. . [...]
From Telegraph.co.uk: Some 57 per cent of Americans disapprove of Mr Obama’s overall handling of the economy, while his job approval rating is also at a low, with 52 per cent saying he is not doing well. However there is some hope for the Democrats as only 32 per cent think Republican economic plans would [...]
From CNSNews.com: While President Barack Obama’s overall approval rating averaged 48 percent for the first seven months of 2010, it was 78 percent among Muslim Americans, according to the Gallup Poll. That gave the president a higher approval rating among Muslims than among any other religious category reported by the poll. Members of other non-Christian [...]
From CNSNews.com: For the first time in his presidency, Barack Obama’s average weekly “disapproval” rating has hit 50 percent, according to the Gallup Poll. Each week, Gallup interviews about 3,500 American adults, asking them whether they approve or disapprove of the job President Obama is doing. On a daily basis, the polling firm publishes a [...]
From National Review: There is a chart currently making the rounds that shows President Reagan’s approval ratings during his first two years in office overlaid upon President Obama’s. The trend lines nearly overlap. Liberal commentators are using the chart to argue that Obama’s unpopularity is almost entirely attributable to the weak economy and thus comparable [...]
From The LA Times: President Obama busily continued his five-state cross-country political money collection tour today. But he took time out to declare that he has “no regrets” about his firm statement of support for a new mosque and social center near the site in New York City of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Shortly [...]
From Newsmax.com: The percentage of Americans disapproving of how President Obama does his job hit an all-time high Monday, with half of all voters surveyed by the Gallup poll saying they disapprove. The 50 percent mark was a jump from previous polls, which had showed Obama leveling off in the high 40s, according to Gallup’s [...]
From CNSNews.com: Independents who embraced President Barack Obama’s call for change in 2008 are ready for a shift again, and that’s worrisome news for Democrats. Only 32 percent of those citing no allegiance to either major party say they want Democrats to keep control of Congress in this November’s elections, according to combined results of [...]
From CNSNews.com: As the Senate reconvened on Thursday, taking a rare break from its August recess to pass a $600-million bill to fund border security provisions that had passed in a specially-reconvened-session of the House on Tuesday, new numbers from the Gallup Poll showed that only 29 percent of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling the immigration issue. [...]