Gallup: 50% of Americans Call Obama Presidency 'Failure'

Newsmax ^ | March 08, 2012 | Newsmax Wires

[RobinMasters]

A new Gallup poll released Thursday reports that half of all Americans believe the Obama presidency has been a "failure" thus far.

Even the number of those saying it is a success (44 percent) falls far behind the number saying the same for Bill Clinton's administration just before his re-election bid in 1996 (64 percent).

Most who believe that Obama's presidency has been a failure are Republicans, but in what could be a grave development for President Obama, 53 percent of independents said the same.

Gallup also reports that "President Obama's average job approval rating for the month of February in Gallup Daily tracking was 45 percent, with 47 percent disapproving, unchanged from January. ... The 50 percent approval mark is a crucial one for presidents in a re-election year. All incumbents who have been elected to a second term had a 50 percent or higher average approval rating by February of that year, and in the case of all but George W. Bush, they maintained that through Election Day."

The latest Gallup numbers show an uptick for the president, with 48 percent approving and 44 percent disapproving.

[spokeshave]

..they must all be racist......

[Irenic]

I guess 50% is a start...

[dragonblustar]

Don’t look for this to be reported in the MSM.

[South40]

[BobP]

Countdown until Jackwagon leaves Office: 317 days as of March 9, 2012.

[citizencon]

If the liberal media were not so deep in the tank for Obama, it would be much more than 50% of Americans.

[PA Engineer]

Results are based on telephone interviews conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking Feb 1-29, 2012, with a random sample of 13,999 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

I wonder what likely voters are. He is in trouble. That explains the Fluke campaign.

[MestaMachine]

“That explains the Fluke campaign.”

Which is coming apart at the seams thanks to Rush Limbaugh.

[okie01]

Yet, according to the "experts" in Washington -- Democrat, Republican or Media alike -- Obama is a "shoo-in" for re-election. Can't be beat. No sir.

Methinks 50% of Americans know something the "experts" don't.

Recall that there is one part of the country that is still thriving -- where there are more and more high-paying jobs created every day. A place where money flows fast and free. It is called Washington, D.C. -- a place where there is no economic hardship.

So, Washingtonians may well believe this president has been a "success".

We know better...

[fortheDeclaration]

Tomorrow we see a poll saying that 60% of people think Obama is a great President.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

So, do they, also, honestly believe that Rush Limbaugh was correct, when Rush said that he hoped that Obama’s politics would fail?

[tet68]

Failure.

[Kickass Conservative]

Since Gallup didn't call me, make that 50% plus ONE.

[Jack Hammer]

And yet, how many of these congenital idiots are ready to vote for him again?

[Jack Hammer]

And yet, how many of these congenital idiots are ready to vote for him again?

[DeaconRed]

50%?
The other 50% were bidding on a bridge for sale cheap.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I’ll bet it IS more than this.

[Williams]

Yet they will keep writing stories that Obama will win in a “walk”, is likely to win, is the odds on favorite, blah blah blah.

IMHO voters who thought Obama was a moderate feel betrayed by him, and cannot wait to vote him out.

[ChiMark]

If it’s 50% now it will be much higher in September.