Posted on 12/08/2009 7:26:48 AM PST by Zakeet
President Obama's job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point in his term.
President Obama's job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point in his term.
The new low comes as Obama enters the home stretch in his push to enact his signature initiative, an overhaul of the nation's health care system, and escalates America's involvement in the Afghanistan war.
Below are comparable ratings for other presidents since Gallup began taking presidential approval polls in 1938:
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This number is as artificially high as the unemployment rate is low.
Not low enough. Not by a light-year. I’ll be satisfied when it’s under 20%.
Obama’s plummeting poll numbers are due to.....RACISM!!
sarc/
When the left complains that Bush’s numbers were higher only because of 9-11, keep in mind that Bush’s numbers were higher than Obamas even before 9-11
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What is really getting Gibbs and the rest of the obamarats is that BO’s popularity is dropping like a dog turd in spite of the old media doing everything in their power to support his marxism and his incompetence.
Saying he is “lowest” is racist and a hate crime.
LOL
Boy, 2010 is gonna be a bloodbath if this keeps up.
*snicker*
You must realize that he is the last black president
The Racism will continue for at least 50 years
The interesting one in this list is Reagan at 49 percent. Reagan was elected in Nov. 1980 and inherited a bad economy. The first two years 81-82 were bad and 1982 was the low point. But during this time, Reagan cut the tax rates and got them through Congress. The economy started to turn around in the first quarter of 1983. The rest is history. I think his ratings were higher because people intuitively agreed with lowering tax rates.
What Hussien is doing is completely opposite of what Reagan did. Plus, there will be NO recovery in 2010. There is NOTHING that Hussien has done or is doing that will help businesses grow and hire people.
Yeah...but I'm not getting too excited yet. The American people have a short memory. Reagan at 49% (within the statistical MOE of BHO) got re-elected in a landslide...and GWB at an all time high barely got re-elected.
Of course...Reagan was taking the country in the right direction...as opposed to dear leader. This should at least begin to halt the agenda somewhat...although the EPA deal hints that there no signs of it...
Okay, I live in Silicon Valley and I can tell a whole lot of people are not drinking the Cooool-Aid anymore and wondering what’s going with Barry O.
I am sure the pollsters are using a box of crayons to write their report, as there is no way Barry O. has an approval rating of 47%.
Fascinating. I seem to recall things in the country were very, very grim around Christmas 1977. And yet the Peanut Farmer had a full ten points on Barry.
True, remember ACORN, Soros and the Holder Justice Dept. will be active.
you are SOOOOO correct on that!
He has done enormous damage to the prospects of any other Black American who wishes to run for POTUS. I’m thinking it won’t happen again in my lifetime. What a shame.
The David Dinkins effect on a national scale.
Does this mean the honeymoon is over? Boo Hoo
I guess this whole socialism experiment isn’t working out so-well
Maybe the big O could appoint Michael Mann as chief scientist in charge of polls. He managed to invent temperature changes out of thin air, maybe he can do the same with poll numbers.
0bummer’s approval is about HALF of George Bush’s approval?
Massive FAIL!
It’s worse than that when you look at disapproval ratings. When Bill Clinton had a 48% approval rating at a similar point in his presidency, his disapproval rating was only 43%. In fact, when his approval rating had dropped earlier in his presidency all the way down to 37%, his disapproval rating peaked at 49%. (Keep in mind, Clinton was elected with 43% of the vote, compared the Chosen One, who had 53% of the vote.)
Obama’s disapproval rating stands at 46%.
Reagan also famously recovered from low approval ratings, but his disapproval ratings only topped 48% for a brief while shortly after the 1982 elections, when many Republicans blamed him for the disastrous results. Reagan had also deferred short-term, weak growth for robust, long-term economic health. The result was a second dip in the 1979-1983 depression, with unemployment rates spiking as a result of high interest rates. Obama has done the opposite: He has sacrificed long-term solvency for a short term economic boost which is really nothing more than government spending.
By 1984, the economy was growing at an unprecedented rate. Does anyone really expect 9% growth in 2012?
So how many of that 47% really disapprove of him?
These polls from the previous
Administration
The haiku of FAIL.
“The David Dinkins effect on a national scale.”
Yeah, and also brings to mind Coleman Young, Marion Barry, Kwame Kilpatrick... all failures.
27% will never change because these are the lazy good for nothings who will never work, pay taxes or have any responsibility ever. They only breed, take up space and bitch that the do not get enough “stuff”.
The other 20% felt sorry for the previous and some of them will come around.
Bozo boy can do nothing to improve his thought process as that was fried on dope in his youth.
HAHAHAHA!
You know Obama thinks he is the leftist version of Reagan and his numbers too will come roaring back before 2012 in time to win a landslide. He bellieves if he keeps pushing his leftist agenda and get some of it passed it will fix our problems. Not to mention the stimilis is designed to kick in high gear just before the 2012 election to cause a big spike in economic activity so he can ride it into reelection , like Reagan.
Going down down down down down down ad infitnitum.
How many damn democrats did they poll back then?
Seems to me that they must have polled all of them, and sprinkled in a few American opinions as well.
Raila Odinga's favorite cousin is most likely at a 39% approval rate, but his lackeys in the MSM are hyping the numbers so as to not totally embarrass him.
But he is New Amerika's first and greatest president!
Jimmy Carter, 57 percent.Now thats real bad when you can’t out do Jimmy.
Then you will probably never be satisfied. If we can get it under 40 I’ll turn handsprings. There are vast numbers of Obamatons out there who still blame everything on Bush. They believe Barry is doing heroically well, but Bush left behind such a terrible mess it will take at least two terms to fix.
Nobama rating are skewed. I think they are polling welfare recipients, acorn members, crackheads & felons only in their sample. We need an independent prosecutor here.
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