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Pew poll: Obama's public support is eroding
McClatchy ^ | March 16, 2009 | Steven Thomma

Posted on 03/16/2009 11:13:46 AM PDT by Zakeet

A new poll by the independent Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has found that President Barack Obama's popular support is eroding, with his approval rating dropping below 60 percent.

"President Barack Obama's approval rating has slipped, as a growing number of Americans see him listening more to his party's liberals than to its moderates, and many voice opposition to some of his key economic proposals," the Pew Center concluded.

Its new survey finds Obama's approval rating falling to 59 percent from 64 percent in February. It also finds the ranks of Americans who disapprove of the president's job performance rising, to 26 percent from 17 percent.

Among those who registered a jump in disapproval were Republicans, up 15 percentage points, and independents, up 13 points, Pew found.

The survey was taken among 1,308 adults last Monday through Thursday and has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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The Pew poll is the latest finding that the president has lost some support as he's started to flesh out his governing agenda.

A McClatchy-Ipsos poll last week found his approval rating dropping from 69 percent to 65 percent. An average of six public polls in the last few weeks — Pew, Gallup, Rasmussen, McClatchy-Ipsos, Newsweek and Fox — put Obama's approval rating at 60.3 percent.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; approval; bho44; bhojobapproval; first100days; obama; pew; poll
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For some reason, most people are starting to believe I'm a liberal.

1 posted on 03/16/2009 11:13:47 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

So the Republic still works, a little.


2 posted on 03/16/2009 11:15:41 AM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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“Adults” in a Pew poll. #s are much worse...


3 posted on 03/16/2009 11:15:46 AM PDT by eureka! (Elections have consequences, boy howdy. *sigh*)
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To: Zakeet

Please continue...don’t worry about the stock market folks...just keep those numbers diving...he needs to go.


4 posted on 03/16/2009 11:16:25 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Zakeet

The MSM will still spin this as high approval, however, I heard that Jimmy Carter started his term above 70% approval, and GW2 was above 60%.


5 posted on 03/16/2009 11:16:41 AM PDT by fightin bronco (All animals are equal, except some animals are more equal than others)
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To: Zakeet
Photobucket

Who turn my teleprompter upside down:-()

6 posted on 03/16/2009 11:18:12 AM PDT by geo40xyz (BE PREPARED: Geo The Engineer says its HUSSEIN & the MSM fault for next 4 years:-))
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To: Zakeet

The media is still in the tank for Hussein.


7 posted on 03/16/2009 11:18:29 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Zakeet

This can’t be right. Gallup has him at 112% approval rating.


8 posted on 03/16/2009 11:18:52 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: fightin bronco

I just saw an article today saying 2 out of 3 approve of the job Obama is doing.

LIARS!


9 posted on 03/16/2009 11:19:03 AM PDT by a real Sheila (Obama's FAILURE is the only chance the U.S. has for SURVIVAL!)
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To: geo40xyz

Man, that is FUNNY. did u make that??!


10 posted on 03/16/2009 11:19:06 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: geo40xyz

That is LOL funny.

Regarding the slipping numbers, I just want to say to those who were duped, “so the rest of us weren’t telling stories, were we?!”


11 posted on 03/16/2009 11:19:13 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: Zakeet

That's racist!

12 posted on 03/16/2009 11:19:21 AM PDT by Purrcival (Proud to share my birthday with President Reagan)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
No, lifted it from a fellow FR’er......
13 posted on 03/16/2009 11:20:58 AM PDT by geo40xyz (BE PREPARED: Geo The Engineer says its HUSSEIN & the MSM fault for next 4 years:-))
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To: geo40xyz

Obama’s teleprompter will be deeply saddened.


14 posted on 03/16/2009 11:21:53 AM PDT by Tarpon (It's a common fact, one can't be liberal and rational at the same time.)
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To: geo40xyz

CREEPY!


15 posted on 03/16/2009 11:22:05 AM PDT by a real Sheila (Obama's FAILURE is the only chance the U.S. has for SURVIVAL!)
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To: Zakeet
For some reason, most people are starting to believe I'm a Liberal.

NO, You are not a Liberal, You are Natural Born Lying Commie, Born & Bred.

16 posted on 03/16/2009 11:23:06 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Zakeet

Pew is a Democrat-leaning polling outfit. If Pew is starting to show erosion, then things are not well in Obamaland.


17 posted on 03/16/2009 11:23:48 AM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: Zakeet

The economy may be in a free fall. Wall Street investors may be scared off. Small business owners may be avoiding making any large investments. And the hotel and convention business is in the tank.

But Obama sure has some great pecs, doesn’t he?


18 posted on 03/16/2009 11:23:49 AM PDT by earlJam
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To: geo40xyz; Recovering_Democrat

Here’s a teleprompter editorial cartoon that cracked me up:

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IMAGES/cartoons/toon031209.gif

I posted it directly a couple of times, but it was a “violation”.


19 posted on 03/16/2009 11:24:18 AM PDT by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: a real Sheila

Thats true, fat a-s Michelle and one of his daughters


20 posted on 03/16/2009 11:25:04 AM PDT by italianquaker ( Something stinks in DC, oh it is just B.O)
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