WASHINGTON (CNN) – For the first time since he took over in the White House, Americans don't see eye to eye with President Barack Obama on the important issues, according to a new national poll. But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey does indicate that a majority approve of how Obama's handling his duties as president.
According to the poll, which was released Tuesday, 48 percent of people questioned say that they agree with Obama on the issues that matter most to them, with 51 percent saying no. That's a switch from April, when 57 percent said they agreed with the president on important issues, with 41 percent disagreeing.
"Obama is facing crunch time on a number of controversial issues, from health care to financial regulation to cap and trade to Afghanistan," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "The fact that most Americans no longer agree with him on important issues makes his task harder."
Fifty-five percent of those questioned say they approve of how Obama's handling his duties, with 43 percent disapproving. The 55 percent approval rating is down 3 points from September. Most recent national polls place the president's approval rating in the low to mid 50's.
"Obama continues to do poorly among senior citizens," says Holland. "Most Americans over the age of 65 disapprove of how he is handling his job as president."
The poll also suggests that two out of three Americans say Obama has the qualities a president should have, down 12 points from April - one indication the Nobel Peace Prize may not have helped him much in that regard.
Most Americans, 56 percent, don't approve of the Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, and only a third believe that Obama has done enough to deserve the prize. But seven in 10 are proud that a U.S. president won the prestigious award.
Sixty-five percent say they have a favorable opinion of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and 64 percent say they view first lady Michelle Obama favorably. Both women rate higher than the six in 10 questioned who view Obama in a favorable light. Forty-five percent say they have a favorable opinion of Vice President Joe Biden, 5 points higher than the four in 10 who view Biden unfavorably.
"It's not surprising that Clinton tops Barack Obama on the favorable ratings," says Holland. "Secretaries of State don't get blamed for economic problems or unpopular domestic policies, and they often don't get the same share of the blame as the commander-in-Chief for international slip-ups either. But typically, the first lady gets even better favorable ratings than the Secretary of State, so the fact that Clinton's numbers are slightly better than Michelle Obama's is a bit surprising."
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted Sunday through Thursday, with 1,038 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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And yet 57% of Americans want a public option according to a Washington Times/ABC news poll released yesterday. Have a nice day!
And the other 50% agree with him. ?!? What ???
For the first time? The media has its head in the sand. 80% of Americans disagree with the Obama administartions policies and performance. Are you trying to ease back into telling the truth?
And so the long slide into a single term Presidency continues. Hillary is more popular because the public realizes she's at least competent, unlike our Rock Star-in-Chief.
"we want our social security and we dont care if boys are dying in iraq and we dont care how you have to pay for it all!
I dont know who you guys poll, but those numbers are not reflective of the true sentiment.
I think he is doing a great job when you consider what he walked into.
Our prior president was driving this country into the ground!
The only thing I have issue with is the fact that he has not pulled all of our troops out of Iraq yet.
How did you get the republican members of congress to answer this poll. Seems to me it is the republican view....bet if you documentated they party affliation you would find MOST OF AMERICA AGREE ON HEALTH CARE AND THE REST.... There again..CNN is trying to be Fox News..and they dont' post messages that disagree with them.
Are these polls really necessary. How can you real conduct a poll, say that half American don't agree with Obama but only interview 1,038 people by telephone.. Is this serious. How many people voted last year? Millions! not hundred, not thousands, not tens of thousands, not even hundred of thousands. I just don't get it
But who disagrees with him, the silent majority or the extremists? This makes a huge difference, especially for getting re-elected. If the middle 50% agrees with him and extremists at both ends disagree, then he is doing great. If all the righties hate him and all the lefties love him... 50% is not so good.
As far as the health care bill goes, the latest version is hated by extremists on both ends... so it must be a good compromise and I fully support it.
There's a surprise!!!!!
But 98 percent of the nation is so hateful of REPUBLICANS....did you know this?????they messed the nation in its entirity....ok, just know it...pres. obama is doing simply excellent...pass heatlh care with public option...his ratings go up unprecedented....like mahatma Gandhi....
How can you approve of how he is handling business in the office he hasn't handled anything but getting a cop and a professor together for a beer?
In 2012, the prevailing question is going to be the same one that Ronald Reagan asked in 1980:
"Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"
No one, I repeat, NO ONE knows what the answer to this question is going to be. Only time will tell whether or not our President's policies are going to work.
Just remember THIS, unemployment is the worst it's been since 1983.
1983, my Republican friends, was the 3rd year of Ronald Reagan's 1st term as President, and unemployment was as bad THEN as it is now.
Let's see how things are in 2012.
What? Who was polled? The deep south and the far right clergy? Give me a break!
I have never beleived POLLS I rely on facts . and this president has quitely done more possative and productive things in the first 10 months than cheney bush did in 8 years...
so remember FIRE IT UP READY TO GO , and if he can pass any kind of health care plan . it will be a first ever and it opens pandoras box of getting back at the insurance industry greed , of using americans health issues as a profit maker ,rather than using profit for research and investing in pro health wellness awareness programs . the insurance companies would rather pick at americans to make a profit. If you look at the bottom line of this ,and really think about it .. these companies are banking on the government ( not controlling over charges and greed. and to me its a sick country to allow anyone to make such an out radgious profit on suffering and pain of illness and injuries ... and terminal patients denials of health clams ..
pretty sick don't you think?
I think it's more than half that disagree with Obumbles. Cause my family and I have never been polled, and we don't care for him or his administration at all. In fact 90 percent of the county that we live in don't like him. We can't wait for 2012 baby! Whoooo!
Thats because the news programs are more concerned with ratings than they are with providing proper accurate information LIKE THERE JOBS SAY THEY SHOULD BE DOING, and the Republican fear mongers are working over time to scare everyone.
Why don't you stop polling the President everyday, hoping to get a news story.
He hasn't even been in offie a year and he walked into a sinking ship – give him a break.
so 48% of people still agree with bankrupting the country?
Maybe those senior citizens, who survived a depression before know a little about what the correct path to recovery is? They have been repeating over and over you can not spend your way out of debt. But no one in Washington is listening to the voices of experance.
no one poll me or my family. Im older.
Old people are selfish and gullible.
And, 80% of Americans disapprove of the President, because some guy says so.
If you polled 1,038 people attending a Palin Country First Slack Jaw Klan Rally and book signing that number would be much lower and would have just as much significance.
So what is the problem. If you can get half a room of people to agree with you. by all accounts in life you are doing good. what is there some expection of total agreement from everyone? Once again CNN just like all the rest of the NEWS companies these days being the Tabloid again. Ballon Boy's. please do some homework.
MORE than half, 51% DISAGREE on what he is doing. Support for the public option under 50% as well. That means the MAJORITY do NOT support his policies or his public option. The trend will continue as this man continues to show his true Left wing agenda. He ran in the center and is governing far left. We are a center right country and that's what we want our commander in chief to be. Obama is wolf in sheeps clothing.
CNN continues to try and make lemonade out of lemons. The guy is dropping in the polls big time. He has lost the independant voter and even his Democrats, except for the African Americans, are turning on his policies.
I know CNN had to hate posting this recent pole, but get use to it – Obama is going to continue to drop in the numbers as he heads for the second one term president in recent history.
I am one of the 55 percent that generally approves of the president and how he is handling his job. Considering the mess he was handed in Jan. 2009 from the disaster known as "W", I believe he is doing all that can be done. The only area in which I disagree at the moment, is his policy of Afgahanistan. I think we need to pull out, and spend the money we would have spent fighting a no win situation on securing our borders. We need to save American lives, and spend the money here at home, not overseas.
I also will be disappointed with we do not get a Public Option in the health care bill. But it is really up to congress to do that for the American people. My approval rating of the majority of congress is MUCH lower than it is for Pres. Obama. We could "clean house" and probably get better results.
The most important polls will take place next year and in 2012.
In the mean time, how much did polls sway President Bush to do contrary to what he ultimately decided to do? President Bush and Republicans were ABOVE polls, and that was when President Bush's approval rating was around 20-35%.
Opinion polls are like sampling a larger pot soup. You can try a spoon full to get an idea of the flavor and saltiness, and may give you a good idea of how the rest of the soup tastes. It gives the chef the chance to change things up, and improve the soup.
DUH! Of course 50% disagree, disapprove, disrespect, and every other "dis" you can think of as it pertains to the President. They're called Republicans! (Plus a few PUMAs to boot)....But make no mistake, Pres. Obama has plenty of supporters and we are ready and willing to support him and his agenda! Go OBAMA!
51 against and 48 with the president, CNN's calls it "half"????
Unfortunately, polls only indicate the views of those willing to be polled and do not necessarily reflect the views of those individuals who realize that polls are basically worthless from moment to moment and simply don't give any answer. I am one of them.
well welcome to that other half of how the rest of us felt for the past 8 years!
In due time, these numbers will make sense. A whole lot of elections are coming up which will be a referendum on the president's policies and I predict losses for the party in power. This administration and the hard left democrats have overreached with their supposed election mandate. Enjoy your "we won get over it" phase because it will not last long.
This number also includes Liberals who do not think he is being Liberal enough on health care and gays in the military etc....Its not all Republicans and Independents.
see ya Obozo
Why do people keep saying the GOP hasnt offered any health-care ideas?
1. open up state borders to all insurance companies
2. tort reform
....hello?
How many people actually know what the issues are? What a loaded question...
Studying Statistics on occasion leads me to believe that this is manipulated data. There are areas around me that I could do my own research poll & find exactly the opposite data. I could do this in some other areas nearby & find worse or much better. Pollsters know this better than me for sure. The wording of the questions also determine the outcome of the data. One thing for sure, there's more truth coming out of those offices at the White House then any other time in the last 8 years. It may not be perfect yet, but it's much better than it was. You have people openly saying they are gatheriing information and then making a decision. It's easy to criticize peple at least attempting to be open. You haven't had that opportunity in a while, it was always hindsight complaining.
Can we talk about the NEWS please.
'They Tried to Steal an Election,' N.Y. Voter Fraud Case Heats Up
Thirty-eight forged or fraudulent ballots have been thrown out, according to records at the Rensselaer County Board of Elections in Troy, N.Y. Enough votes, an election official admits, to likely have tipped the November election to the Democrats.
I voted for change and want CHANGE. I dont WANT TO STAY THE COURSE, otherwise, I would have voted for McCain.
First, the only people that are resisting changes are the upper scrooges that trash the economy.
We need better healthcare. It's amazing how dense people are about the issue.
If we stay the course, we will ROT in our CORRUPTED state of capitalism.
Change is not socialism. It is doing the right thing to ensure the car has GAS to go on the next decade.
Quick Rahm mix up another batch of Kool Aid it's beginning to wear off of the lemmings.
Sorry but I wasn't asked me for a vote in the polls, I am over 65 and I think this President is doing every just fine........if he didn't have the Party of NO that is always throwing up road blocks he would be showing better results........This president has tackled more in his 10 months of office than Bush/Chaney did in 8 years........
I'm not at all surprised by this...when you consider the number of people who tune into Rush every day, the fact that NASCAR is the fastest grow spectator sport in America, and that some people still wish Sarah Palin was our vice-president.
We are becoming a nation of idiots, without teeth!
You would have to live in the South, to fully understand the effects of socialistic ideas and the impact they have when implemented.
They encourage fraud, demote family values (benefits to unwed mothers is a cottage industry), if people are married their benefits are
significantly reduced. The ideas are great and fair, and we are all our brothers' keeper, but the poor are not empowered by the policies of this administration. They do not attain the American dream, but a lifetime membership in a group of citizens beholden to the government for their very existence.
Forget the polls, just tell it like it is, half agree with the white side of Obama and half agree with the black side of Obama and that way everyone is included.
Do they? Or are the just full of misinformation.
If 1/2 the people disagree with Obama CNN could have titled this article "Half the People Agree with Obama".
Once the Seniors get their "Cash for Codgers" check in the mail, maybe the poll numbers will shift.
In a nation of 316 million +, a sample of 1038 is pretty trivial, no matter how much voodoo analysis you apply to it.
How many calls did the pollsters have to make to get 1038 poor souls interested in answering questions? Many of us have lives and jobs.
For the record, I took a class in statistical analysis, and aced it. Pretty simple stuff, actually, and remarkably easy to extrapolate just about any conclusion you desire.
Ask JD Power.
The Obama Administration is not doing ANYTHING to create jobs. They like to talk a lot, but political payback was the main function of the first stimulus. We cannot afford to keep spending like this. Obamacare will destroy healthcare as we know it. We need healthcare reform, but not like this, the government is incompetent!
I stand with my President. I stood with the idiot that we had for eight years and he(Cheney) was beyond anyone's comprehension. I PROUDLY stand with the intelligent one that we have now. This man is getting the job done, say what you will. It may not be at the warp speed that some of us would want unrealistically, but it is happenning. Mistakes will be made, but none so far that we can't recover from. I take his turtle and analytical approach to the crack-like impetousness of the previous tenant of the WH.
I'd be interested in taking a look at the actuall poll sample data. This is not reflective of any of the folks I have spoken with.
What I don't like about the way CNN reports these kinds of stories is that they just lump in everyone who disapproves of Obama's performance into one big monolithic group.
In reality, it consists of the GOP base, which will voraciously disapprove of anything Obama does; the rest of the GOP, which (obviously) is ideologically opposed to the vast majority of Obama's actions; and the far left, who see Obama as not advancing liberal causes strongly enough or rapidly enough.
While the latter of the two groups are aware of this, the GOP base will interpret it as validation of their far right views, which will only embolden them further.
So let me get this straight..half of the people said they disagree with Obama on issues that CONCERN the most...but a sizable percentage still a -like him 60% and approve of his duties as president 55%- way to get a TMZ-like headline
This president is an out-and-out disaster. We will be lucky if he only turns out to be another Jimmy Carter.
Well, I'm part of the half that does agree with him.
Obama/Biden 2012
Thanks for all you do, Faux News.
I wonder what percentage of the 51 percent believe things such as: death panels, that Obama was foreign born, that we're becoming a socialist nation, etc., etc.
Why the big difference between this and the ABC poll of yesterday showing a 57% favorable rate for the President... and 57% approval for health care reform WITH a public option, and 70% approval for the public option for those who have no health care or cannot afford it?.....Hmmmmm
Seniors distrusting him, of course they do. Besides many growing up in a different time and era, you have the Republicans lambasting them with lies and deceit about health care reform.
My own mother who voted for Obama was beginning to believe their outragous lies of death panels.
Our senior citizens are very often the ones snake oil salesman types go after because they can be easily swayed and the fringe right as well as the lobbyists know this. They target them just as bad if not worse than the crooks out there.
Dear God, they actually have the seniors believing that for profit insurance companies will protect them from the Governernment.
At the moment the only major legislation which the President has signed is the Stimulus bill ...everything else (healthcare, climate legislation, new afghan strategy) is either still in the pipe and is being subjected to modification, or will not happen this year (DADT repeal, immigration reform, Wall street reform).
It's understandable that improving the system isn't easy, however it's completely outrageous that good legislation has to be gutted just to appease the same corporate interest groups which are hurting this country.
Obama supporter during the election:
- polls are perfect
Obama supporter whine list now
- they didn't poll me personally so it doesn't count (math "whiz")
- even though cell phone are polled – let's say they aren't
- evil RNC conspiracy
- Bush's fault
- evil media conspiracy
- racsit conspiracy
- space alien landing (why not?)
More people would agree with President Obama's approaches to our country's challenges if they would:
- Take the time to do some thoughtful research instead of relying on sound bites from folks like Fox News and the GOP, both of which want our President and country to fail.
- Accept the fact that the problems facing our country did not happen overnight and therefore will take some time to solve.
- Accept there will be sacrifices involved in the process of cleaning up the mess left by 30 years of Reagan voodoo tinkle-down economics and 8 years of the Bush-Cheney Administration.
It is our turn to be the Greatest Generation. Either you suck it up, get with the program and do your part to help our country, or you side with the obstructionists who only spread fear, division and hate in their efforts to regain power at the expense of everyone else.
It is evident that most people in this country over 55 are less tolerant about race than the current younger generation.
The fact that a black man is in control is a phycological shock to many of them.
Tolerance and understanding only comes with succeeding generations.
This why we need term limits on Congress and bring new minds and ideas to the forefront.
It is so amazing to me how BUSH messed this COUNTRY up for 8 years and President Obama has been President for how long???? President Obama will succeed no matter what some of you may think!!!
Why is the headline "half the people disagree" instead of "half the people agree".... ?????? FOX is slanted, that's a given... but CNN?
We can all agree on the SNL skit for his accomplishments – jack & squat. Humorous how CNN's Wolf prostrated himself in his standard water carrying/fact checking SNL skit on Obama. The rest of his instegitive journalism techniques are left to the balloon boy story.
and they whole country & World disagreed with Bush , whats your point
Wow thats impressive reporting CNN! Are there no balloons today?
You guys are pathetic!
Can one of you guilty conscience, Obama kool aid drinking, uneducated liberals tell me 5 "positive and productive" things this fraud-in-chief has done in his first year, without going back to the same copout of blaming Bush? I bet you can't do it. WHAT HAS HE ACCOMPLISHED?
Everyone agrees that we need to improve our government. That doesn't mean turning our country upside down.
I love how people are passing the blame on senior citizens beause they're old selfish and senile. With age comes widsom, guys. These are American citizens and our elders, let's show some respect. If Obama, unlike most of the past Presidents, can't win them over, it's not their thinking that's wrong, it's Obama's.
Oh, and 1,000+ people is a good sampling number, according to statistics. And a 50% approval rating is lower than George Bush's... sad.
They always say History repeats itself. How did we get a city full of educated Lawyers and semi-educated representatives that did not pay attention in American History and Economics classes.
CNN is showing it's true "Fox Lite" aspect with this bile.
senior citizens are Obama's lowest approval group quite simply because older people are the most likely to have a problem with race. the breath of hope in this nation is that for the young folks coming up race is more and more of a nonissue with each passing generation. As are so many of the other social issues that rankle our aged.
Amazing to see the jealousy from the right. Nothing but something negative to say, which shows how much envy there is that we have a president that has a brain and can speak. Otherwise it there would not be all the personal attacks if it's the policies they disagreed with. You guys are sooo obvious. What does calling someone a rock star have to do with policy. At least when we criticized Bush it was about the war or other policies we didn't agree with.
But it's okay that you guys think our president is a rock star. nothing wrong with rock stars. I bet a lot of you even like rock stars otherwise they wouldn't be so successful. Thanks for the compliment to our president.
and by the way get used to having him around.
One of the strange (and scary) things about this past election cycle was the disconnect in the voters minds between Obama's policy agenda and his popularity. Way back in October/November 2008, polls showed that if you asked people about policies and not candidates, the electorate did not like Obama's plan even back then, but he was still rock-star popular. People are slowly but surely realizing that elections have consequences and that the guy that they may have voted for is pushing an agenda that they don't like. In fact the party and administration in charge are bullying it through saying "We won" and ignoring the fact that they never had a policy mandate. Their only mandate after blaming everything on the previous administration without once looking in the mirror, was that they were not George Bush (and believe me, this is no defense of him). That people are finally waking up from the kool-aid that the mass media served them doesn't surprise me at all.
This Poll is not Correct.
All those who voted for Obama, still support him.
Obama has a support from 53% of Americans.
He's still better than "W."
The presidency is a combination of prime minister and head of state (king/queen). After eight years of a president that was a good prime minister but a poor head of state, we chose Obama, a person who is a good head of state but a weak prime minister.
This explains why Obama who has excellent communication skills, has a personal approval of greater than 50%, and has less than 50% approval for his policies, which are perceived as weak or ill advised.
I sure would like to know who these guys are polling and what section of the country they are polling. I really dont believe there results on this one!
We knew this on November 4, 2008. He won by just a few percentage points. The country is fairly split in half. Half want progress into the 21st century and the other half wants us to return to the 1800's (or believe it still is), the "good ole days" when uppity minorities and "illegals" weren't allowed to speak their minds or exert any influence and corporate America could still be trusted because it wasn't yet so big that you pretty much spent your entire life as an indentured servant. How much money gets wasted on polling to confirm what we already know anyway?
Where the heck have you been? Wonder what the literacy rate is for the supporters of our basketball Jones in Chief? Here is the real question, what percentage of the American supporters of Obummer are productive hard working tax paying non-entitlement seeking Americans?
So you tell seniors you will cut $400billion from Medicare, tell doctors you will cut their pay, tell insured happy people you will force them on to the socialist wait and ration plan, and he expects to be popular? All this with 10% and rising unemployment and devaluing the dollar with inflation like the world has never seen coming, and the destruction of the capitalist economy making us a 3rd world power. Buckling to all our enemies and nutering the military. I mean it just gets better and better, ......if you are a commie America hater.
It's scary to me that he still has the support he has. NOBODY that still supports him was even alive when Carter did this and worse to our country. We will be lucky to survive 4 years of this insanity. 2010 will be a bloodbath for Dems, but we still have to get enough Republicans to overide veto's from this commie.
I think people are looking at these polls the wrong way. They tend to be very vague. President Obama is NOT a left wing liberal (despite criticizm from Republicans). The progressives are going to disagree with him on sending more troops to Afghanistan (and the war in general) and Republicans are going to disagree with him on health care reform. You cannot please everyone. I'm shocked 48% agree with him. When you stand in the middle, you tend to stand alone.
I have been telling you for over a year that Obama is an empty suit. Why didn't you listen to me? Being able to present a rousing teleprompter message just doesn't cut it for the awful responsibilities of being POTUS. Obama's community organizer training also does not prep him for what's required, either.
Way to go CNN. You effectively have managed to skew even your own poll. Congrats.
The key point in this poll is that you found that 55% approve of the President's job, (60% have a favorable opinion of the President).
A 55% approval rating in this highly partisan atmosphere and while the President is trying to accomplish something SO huge, is very, very impressive.
Yet you managed to make it sound as if only 48% approve of his job performance (via that poorly phrased, misleading sample question which will have an incredibly high MOE).
You're just as bad as Fox. The cable networks are all a disgrace to news. You should just rename yourself CEN (Cable Entertainment News). Cable News Network died years ago, as far as I'm concerned.
Who are they polling, I am still waiting for my phone call, my father (senior citizen) is waiting for his. So who is getting polled, and by whom. Hmmmmm!!
The majority supports the policies he outlined during his campaign which is why he was elected. Unfortunately, Obama is the only one "changing" as he tries to appease the private sector and its Congressmen who are in its pocket. The majority of the public wants a public option. Its the all-powerful HMOs that don't. If he would make good on any of his promises (Afghanistan, Gitmo, etc.), that would probably go a long way towards garnering public support.
It's all in how you phrase the question, as I should know having created these sorts of surveys. The only thing that matters is that the economy is improving, healthcare is finally getting some attention, and we are no longer viewed as a rogue nation by the rest of the world....all in less than one year since Pres. Obama took office. I know our forefathers firmly believed in the media as a key tool to keeping government honest but they could never have foreseen how the media would manipulate public opinion all in order to make $$ via ratings. Shame on you CNN. And if I ever meet Ted Turner I think I might just slap him upside his head for not retaining CNN because I don't think he would have tolerated the path you've toward sensationalism.
That's amazing considering that every Democrat in America, along with their media and simple minded indoctrinators have stated that if you disagree with Obama on just one thing you are an evil racist terrorist. The number is no doubt higher as many asked don't want a batch of idiotic hate-filled liberal froth that Democrats spew as they call you a racist terrorist for not slurping up their kool aide.
And the number of people that disagrees with this President will only grow, and grow, and grow, and grow.
Your polls mean nothing. All polls, including the ones that make me feel good and the ones that make me feel bad, they are all meaningless. The only poll that matters is the one that we all participate in...and that is the election poll. CNN uses polls to replace real journalism and they do it to death. This is filler, but it's better than a token Palin article.
"Support for the public option under 50% as well."
Funny, CNN just reported this morning that support for the public option is at something like 52% (opposition at 47%), having risen from the month of August when all the tantrum-throwing feces-flingers were trying to prevent any Dems from disseminating accurate, factual information about the proposed bills at town hall meetings.
Ho Hum. Another day, another poll.
We should have a poll on how many polls it takes to qualify as an accurate poll................Maybe we could poll the pollsters and have a great big ol' "poll of polls". Oh wait, the last one has already happened.
The only poll that mattered happened on Nov 4, 2008 and it won't happen again until Nov 4, 2012.
Currently half and increasing. America did not expect such a weak lefty to be in the WH.
We are a center left country and that is what Obama is
More than half of the voters in this country disapprove of the president on the issues.
It is amusing to watch the minority come to CNN.com and make excuses for that.
82% of Americans agree with Republicans on who will win the World Series...30% of Americans agree with Mitt Romney that Pluto is not a planet....77% of Americans agree with Donald Trump on methods to save heating costs in high-rise buildings in the middle-Northern section of the country....61% of Americans agree with Anderson Cooper that the mullet is no longer considered stylish above the Mason-Dixon line...99% of Americans agree to disagree with 71% of the pharoahs of Ancient Egypt.
Most of the Americans who disagree with the president do not realize that health care insurance snatches almost $13,000 per year out of their paychecks and that deregulation causes prices to increase 50% instead of competition driving the price down like it is supposed to do in theory. That's why Austinites pay much less for their electricity than Houstonians. If the media would do a better job of presenting what is really going on many people would forget about teabags and go to protest corporate headquarters instead, but of course, corporate headquarters pays CNN as well as others to present the "news".
There are how many million people in the US? Why anyone would think that the opinions of a mere 1000 would adequately reflect the nation's opinion is beyond me ... it frankly defies credibility in my mind. When CNN polls even 0.01% of the total US population for a poll and reports the results ... that'll be the day that I start putting some viability on opinions expressed.
Let's see 47% of American taxpayers do not pay any federal taxes whatsoever – $0 Zip – Nada. They must be the ones that are for Obama. The other 53% of Americans are the taxpayers that actually contribute something to this country; these people must disagree with Obama. Yup macro economics and national politics are beginning to make sense now
If this was the truth, I would have to say that many people start suffering from loss of memory! But, I do not think that these polls are accurate. There is much more support of the President and his work; the supporter are just not as vocal and as obnoxious as the Fox crowd!
cnn your poll and comments are absurd
what poll? It was not sent to me. ? I do not agree, Obama is doing an exceptional job, considering what he had to overcome. Have we forgotten about the failed "Bush" years and where that all led us? 8-years of negligent war effort, failing economy, jobs. ?? Give our Presiden a chance, after all he won the vote, didn't he? Are you looking for instant gratification or is this a continued sabotage of our "will" ? Please answer that question.
Colorado Mom
55% agree that he is handling his White House duties well. Now would that be getting up in the morning, reading his emails, making sure the latest foreign diplomat is greeted properly. Just exactly what is the difference from his "duties" to his handling of healthcare, gays in the military, two wars, homeland security???? I am very suspect of polls and now I am even more so.
You have the likes of Fox Propaganda spreading hate against him 24/7 and his ratings drop somewhat, then he makes a speech and the ratings are back up, so I'm not too worried. Obama is doing the right thing, well, the best he can given the corrupt Congress and the awful situation he inherited. We get frustrated with him because we expect so much of him; that does not mean we'd want anyone else.
The only poll that's important is on election day 2012. Considering the alternatives, I gladly cast my vote for President Obama, but I'm really disgusted with Congress.
This was expected, the president is unable to meet his promises during the campaign. We are still in Iraq, Afghanistan, and still have detainess at GITMO. All were suppose to have been resolved by now. GITMO was to close or that was the first thing he was to do. In fact the news media are having a harder time getting in to meet with the prisoners, see the living conditions, etc... This is with the house and the senate controlled by the Democratic party. His ability to lead is poor. He couldn't poor pee out of a boot with the instructions on the bottom.
We are headed for hard times, only the bankers, auto manufacturers, and loan companies have profitied. We are still loosing our jobs and our homes. Our defecit went from 1.2 trillion to over 9 trillion in a span of less than a year. Worse times are on the horizon.
People who don't like Obama don't understand what the heck he has to go through. Until you become president then you will never know. People may not like him because they don't understand him or the words he speaks. People need to pick up a dictionary. People complain and talk about presidents,but think about what he has to go through. Polls don't matter issues do and think about what our country is going through, "it ain't cause of Obama, but cause of the famous vegetation we all know BUSH.
The same morons on the right that voted FOR G. Bush and FOR S. Palin, and AGAINST Obama are now polling against Obama. Under what slimey rock at the bottom of what dark cave would this come as a surprise?!! And these very same neo-morons are now claiming that Obama is dropping in the polls?...dropping from what? 50% of Americans are flat-out idiots, as proven by their voting record for [R]s in the 2000,2004,2008 elections......these same 50% were never for Obama, and they will never be for Obama...they are too brain-dead to be for Obama.
By the way I am white, middle class, and independent, and I SUPPORT President Obama. I find his agenda very smart and middle of the road for the most part, and it is every bit as advertised during his campaign. So I guess all you rightwingers who vacuously claim that all he has is support from the far-left blacks and communists, take ALL your talking points and your worldview from the delusional fairytales told to you everyday by your lords on Fux News. Boy, there is a recipe for national success....NOT.
He's doing a great job considering the absolute mess that was left by the previous administration. Who do the republicans have that can do better under the circumstances???? My guess is absolutely no one. Maybe Bush and Co. should have been MADE to stay in office until he cleaned up his own mess!!!
... chant and chant! ...never get tired until the depressed get more depressed! but the president will always walk to walk and talk to talk! Let wait and see what 2012 will show us!
this poles dont mean anything
I believe that there are many Americans that simply do not understand what the problems and the proposals to solve them are. An example of these would be the "Public Option" in the Health Care Bill and what is the long term proper strategy is in Afganistan. The GOP and the extreme Right, I believe, have twisted the truths about so many issues that it is confusing for many Americans to understand the issues. This leads to many disagreeing with the President mainly due to their lack of truthful knowledge of the facts.
Seniors are just mad because they aren't getting a social security increase this year. Guess what ya greedy old jerks? Most people lucky enough to still have a job have had their wages/hours CUT. Less money is making it into the government coffers, so they have less to pay out. Meanwhile, younger people have higher expenses -rent/mortgage, higher property taxes, struggling to raise 1 child vs. the 5 or six YOUR generation was able to afford on just one income. Times have changed and it was that brain dead B-movie actor the right insisted on crowning king in 1980 that started this whole nightmare scenario. You reap what you sow, so stop whining.
I would never put much creditibility in a poll taken by CNN or any
news media.
CNN has been against health care reform and our president these
last months, showing their bias in web headlines and with their
TV programs. They are confrontational, accusing and right out
rude with any Democrat or supporter when interviewing and
practically lick the boots of the republicans, never addressing what
are out and out lies etc.
So, takepolls with a grain of salt. The outcome depends on the
bias of who are conducting them.
It isn't like the seniors who are angry voted for Obama, so who cares what they think?
I am tired of these polls. Who are they polling and how? Did they bother to ask me? I mean when Jessica Simpson was crowned as America Sweethear in 2007, did they ask me? So, these polls did not bother to ask me or several people I know. I want to know who are they asking?
Is 50% supposed to be a surprising number? Wasn't he elected with a little over 50% of the vote??
We are a center- center country, not center right; that's what Rush wants you to believe. 80% of the country is somewhere in the middle, 10% far right, 10% far left.
Public option? Seriously, should this even be an issue? No one should ever hear another story where a friend or family member had to declare bancruptsy over medical bills, no one.
The other issues? Obama is solidly in the middle, sometimes a bit right, sometimes a bit left.
Turn off hate radio and think for yourself!
and last week, 62% of ppl wanted the public option...what is up with you ppl??? I would like to see exactly who you polled, break down the #'s (ie: states, party affiliation, age, gender, etc., etc.)..until you do that your #'s mean nothing...look at what happened with "Rasmussen" (partly owned by Fox-when someone leaked their polling data, it was discovered that 80% of the ppl called were either R's or leaned toward being an R)...and where you get the senior #, agan I don't know..go to some nursing homes, parks, etc. and you may be surprised...I live in FL and quite frankly of all of the seniors I've had the chance to talk to, are either with our Pres. all the way or are willing to give him the time necessary to heal this country...you should hear them talk about Dubya and his crew!!
My Dad is 85 and a WWII vet. He whole heartedly supports Barack Obama. I don't know who you are asking but obviously not him. Some where in that 1/2 is the 27% who still think "W" did a fine job. There is no pleasing them so the sooner he gives that up the better. But I have to say that since people approve of the job he is doing even if they disagree about specifics that must be he is doing something right..
This cracks me up. So few people know anything about statistical analysis and polling, but consider themselves expert enough to challenge professional poll results. Is it so hard to believe that the country is roughly 50/50 divided? Is this a big suprise? Guess what? Half of us ARE conservative, half of us are not. That is why we have a two party system decade after decade. The fact is that not everyone agrees with him, and they shouldn't. In 4 or 8 years the pendulum will swing again the other way.
How many of those polled are Republicans who only watch FOX News? I wish they'd break down these numbers so you can understand them better.
This should read "More Than 50% Disagree..."
Plummeting support down from 57% to 48% That's a huge drop, considering that the majority of people participating in polls are Democrats.
This guy is going to make Carter look like JFK.
The thing is some people disapprove because he hasn't come out strong enough for a public option while others disapprove of health care reform in general. Some people disapprove of the US being in Afghanistan at all and want all the troops pulled out while others want a troop surge.
This poll is meaningless unless it says who disapproves of what.
All a poll is a snapshot of opinion at a given moment: In 6 months, if his apporval rating was back in the 60s and skeptical Independents were leaning hsi way again, he would be hailed as the greatest since FDR. He's 10 months into his first term: the only poll that matters is the one in November 2012, nad the rabid Obama -haters would be well-advised to remember that. Bush 43 was riding high after being re-elected, and look how long it took him to become politically toxic.
I don't understand people. If our leaders do nothing that make waves or puts a spotlight on themselves, their ratings are high. But if they actually try and address the problems facing the people then their ratings go down. But these same people that disapprove are also the ones that complain that our leaders don't do anything.
When Obama came into office we were on t he verge of another great depression and Bush just handed out almost a trillion dollars to the wall street with no stings attached. Obama is trying to fix the problem and stave off major economic problems and finish up unfinished wars left over from Bush and working to help all Americans by focusing health care dollars on actual health care rather than corporate profits.
He deserves the publics support in his efforts, not fear mongoring and war drum banging.
It's all in the jobs which equal stablity in families (food, housing , clothing, medical care)...without the jobs the polls will continue to affirm lack of confidence.....just imagine the polls a few months from now when the lady on the horse falls off....sad...
At least he is trying to fix the problems Americans are facing and not starting a unjust war like the last administration.
Unfortunately you have to consider where the data comes from. You say over half and that is probably mostly senior citizens, the largest group and the only one that would be against any kind of change. We all get old and we all get set in our ways, it's a fact. They were against Medicare when it came out and now would fight to the death to keep it. Same old story, just in another century.
Uncle Barrick is dropping like a rock !
Unemployment is at 10%, the only people who are going to make out with HealthCare reform are the Attorneys, and all of his european buddies are saying bye bye when it comes to Iran.
Now Uncle Barrick doesn't have G. Bush to blame every thing on. He owns the Store!
Looks like Jimmy Carter all over again!
You can like the man, and dislike his policies.
However, as a Democrat, if he keeps up hiding the truth from Americans, then Americans will start disliking the man.
How many fluff pieces before the news media starts asking tough questions?
Who cares if Biden first said no? WASN"T he the one assigned to make sure no funds were wasted in the Stimulus? What's up with that?
The more Americans hear about the details of President Obama's policy proposals, the less they like them. The difficult part is to actually find a media outlet willing to report the details honestly. Most news organizations act like unpaid lackeys for this administration and do absolutely nothing to challenge it. I suppose CNN is too busy doing "fact checks" of Saturday Night Live skits to actually tell the American people what's going on!
These polls don't mean squat. What really matters is that all the youth have seen enough destruction by the GOP to NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN AGAIN!!! The end result will be another LANDSLIDE by President Obama against ANY GOP HACK.
Ok, if all of these people disagree, why are his approval ratings so high?
CNN: 55%
Washintonpost:57%
Gallup:50-54 on any given day
Lets get concerned when they are in the 30's, comon people.
Amazing how this works. A Republican congress and president practically ruin the country with their failed policies, a Democrat takes office and starts trying to fix everything the people before him ruined and still everyone whines about what he's doing.
Republicans sure do have selective memory, don't they?
Remember when there was a budget surplus?
Remember who got us there?
Hmmm...Gallup or Rasmussen polls vs ABC?
Think Gallup and Rasmussen has more credibility.
However, ABC, NBC keep up the numbers, and when you read the actual questions, and the opposition in the poll numbers, it makes one wonder how they came up 57% in agreement.
Senate Health Care is going to cost the following:
Individuals making 66K a year $4,620.00 more.
Individuals making 33K a year $1,700.00 more.
Individuals making 22K a year $750.00 more
For those of you who don't know, 22K is poverty in the US.
One and done.
Wingnuts really need to turn off Fox for 10 minutes a day. 57% of Americans approve of our president, which will be hard to beat in any election. Bush's popularity was at 43% and he was reelected to a second term. Based on their unwillingness to help Americans, the republicans will be destroyed at the polls in 2010 if health reform passes
Now let's poll those same people, not give them a simple AGREE/DISAGREE option and ask them what solutions they have? the room gets awfully quiet.
people act like obama is hiding from all of these issues like Bush did by going on vacation more than 40% of his presidency.
Obama is confronting the issues, asking questions that nobody has brought up in years, and making people uncomfortable on important issues.
do you guys really enjoy year after year of elections discussing the SAME ISSUES AS THE LAST 50yrs? let's come together and get something done, keep it moving.
You cannot lead a Nation out of economic instability by spending more of what you do not have, anyone with any business sense understands that concept, even a dominican mamma probably gets that one. America has lost its industrial and manufacturing base through Free Trade agreements and our primary business has been growth through the commercial and housing markets. Until the Federal and State Governments figure out they have burdened the American people out of business and prosperity with environmental regulations, political pandering for votes, and taxation we are to remain kaput! Enforce our laws!
Problem is people don't know what Obama really believes! Every story is spun positive and Obama sugar coats everything. Obama is doing an awful job. He has radical positions and radical people in his administration.
Obama is chicago politics with a twist of socialism. Yuck.
I think its less not agreeing with what he says and being tired of him taking longer to get it done than we'd like to see. "Yes we can" needs to become "Yes we will".
I voted for Barack Obama. Unfortunatelyl, the new poll numbers show his Achilles Heel; his failure fo fully engage the public in the issues that most concern us; healthcare, economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If he had made his case more fully to the public sooner, he could have avoided this result. However, I am optimistic that he will succeed. He just needs to express his intentions to the public more efficiently.
Half of the country disagree. What half? The poll only survey between 1200-1500 people (neither to say) this is not half of the country; maybe half in the poll. People say what you want and believe what you want......President Obama will be Cheif-in-Command for 2 terms. These polls that come out is just speculation and they do not include every person in this world. Yes it's just the GOP opinions and views of the President. These people just refuse to give credit, where credit is do. And whether some of the America people disagree with the President in the decision about more troops to Afgan...well it's not up to the people because they do not know what's going on there and has no ideal the stake of the situation. I approve of President Obama and his administration in whatever choices they make because they know better than we outsiders looking in or just people listening to alot of garbage. Be wise in your own decision about a person and not be influenced or manipulated by alot of haters toward President Obama.
According to a Washington Post poll today, 57% support a public option in healthcare reform.
Obama's efforts will go down in history as guiding the US down a path of peace and fairness for All Americans. The old Republican way way of selfishness, war mongering, religious extremism will never be again.
the other half is all he need, two-thirds disagreed with Bush and he furthered his agenda
Down with the Crooked Healthcare System in the U.S.or better yet .Make it exclusively for republicans. You know what they say":Birds of e feather flock together.:
Most Americans over the age of 65 who disapprove of Obama have racist tendencies.
Really? That many agree w/the President.... THAT is surprising!
It is interesting to note that in your article you referred to the President as President Barack. After being a CNN fan for many years, I have been shocked by the administration's belittling of another news organization and therefore started watching to see what the fuss is about. I find Fox News to be elevating and enjoyable. I think Pres. Obama is just used to the "Barack" treatment; i.e., everything he says is great and everything he does is great coming from other "news" organizations.
Why did his approval slipped? Here's one reason.
I read his books and respected his desire to help the less priviledged. I then realized the path he has chosen to fulfil his goal. He surrounds himself with people and advisors who advocate or admire Socialistic, Marxist, and Communistic ideology whose leaders generally do not honor human rights. The irony is that the democrats made it their trademark to extol human rights. Mao executeded, imprisoned, tortured millions who happened to have been born wealthy, or educated through hard work, or did not subscribe to communism. Obama's communication director "came to" Mao as her favorite political philosopher when it comes to making choices as she advised high school students. (Check this out from her own words as recent as June 5 this year). There has been no denouncement about that from him or any democratic leaders.
All these people are Obama's choosing. For that, he loses credibility with peopel who care about principles more that politics.
CNN Poll: Half the country disagrees with Obama on issues ... you mean the same half that agree with Bush issues?? Those are the half that NOW don't agree with Obama .... wow good poll CNN.
My family has never been polled. We all disapprove of Obama and the government takeover of healthcare.
Once and for all may we lend less credence to polls? I have been around a longgg time and have NEVER been polled. My friends say they never have and my family hasn't either. Just who makes up these figures anyway, No matter how you slice , it's still baloney. THE POLLS ARE A FRAUD!
Yeah and what did bush and chenney – GOP war monggers do, except bring the country to her knees financially, to include being single-handlely responsible for the death of thousands of American lives in Iraq.
America is still scared the a black man is the leader of the free world and the 45% of America needs to get over it and stop being so negative. Where were they when bush and his cronnies destroyed the American economy?
It is not suprising to see Obama do poor with Seniors and I dont mean all. I just think Obama needs more specifics to sway the Hillanites and the mod republicans about health care.
I suspect those numbers will continue to increase as the true Obama and the true Obama agenda becomes more apparent. Sometimes you have to rely on just more than hope you have to face the facts. The hijacked Democratic Party by the liberal elite and Obama want socialism, nothing less.
Let Obama ram everything through and he will see only his die hard liberials vote for him only.
Cap and Tax
Welfare Healthcare
President Obama is finding out just how much Americans do not care about each other. What Americans care about is money, power, and self. We say we care, we say we are generous, we say we are tolerant and open-minded. Actions speak louder than words.
More than half the country..."The USA.."...do not even know that the USA government saved Capitalism by bailing everyone out.. Nor did they even have a clue about credit card spending themselves into a tight situation nor did they the people of the USA even know they were close to an Economic cliff.. And some fell off.. and crying all the way down in their fall.... for money from the USA govenment.. to save them.......... So who knows what?
Count me amoung the 1/2 of the county that DOES agree with Obama on the issues; the other will come around once they see that it is in their own best and self interest that they do so; give them some time and rewrite your headlines.
Bush was at 26% approval, so Obama is twice as popular as the last guy.
is this any surprise given the out and out lies and deciet the population has been spoon fed by tghe republican dogs!
Maybe if he would actually do what he promised to do during the campaign, this would be a non issue. I voted for him and I don't agree with him most of the time, but at least we aren't at war with Iran or any other country that may snub their noses at America.
well...DUH..
Aren't you guys over at CNN supposed to be journalists reporting facts? polls are opinions
Americans need to realize that for Obama it simply does not matter what they think. He has never once considered what Americans want, he only considers what he thinks Americans need.
That is why his presidency is, and will be, considered such a failure.
All of you pointing to these polls have lost site of the fact; President Obama is delivering what he promised. People don't understand President's sign legistlation brought to their desk. President's also push for legistlation eventually ending up on their desk that they promise to sign during elections. But President's don't create their own legistlation and sign it. if they do, they take the chance at legistlation being overturned later in another President's term......like President Bush. The questions posed in many of these polls are created by Conservative pollsters who seek specifically selected questions that can only be answered with a "yes" or "no" oblivious to our system of Government and how legistlation is actually made law....when a President is actually following the law...............
Leaders do the right thing, not the popular thing. The question is not "Do you agree with what Obama is doing?" but "Do you believe in his intent, capability and method of insuring that it is done well?".
While Obama has now reached Bush-like numbers on agreement with what he was doing, if the right question was asked, even Laura would vote "no confidence" in Bush's intent, capability and method.
I find it amusingly telling that the very neo-morons who voted, not once but TWICE!!!!, for arguably the worst and most incompetent president in the 20th and 21st centuries, now find it within their purview to judge the competancy of a new president who they didn't have the brains to vote for....a president who is deeply involved in SOLVING all the problems left by their idiot-in-charge and the lemming [R] congress who allowed themselves to be led around by the nose for 6 straight years.
Obama a Rock Star-in-Chief? Yes, I suppose he is, and deservedly so.
The delusion, hypocrisy, and stupidity it takes to continue to defend the empty [R] principles that have so abjectly FAILED is just stunning.
And 90% Disagreed with Bush on issues...and?........
And 5 will get you 10 that the people who disagree with Obama can't articulate it either!
Make them explain their position, and they'll have to get back to you when Rush, Hannity and Beck give them the next set of speaking points.
Can we change the constitution and accomondate President Barack Obama for life??. This guys is a combo of FDR and Mandela! take or leave it, it will take America another century to produce such a smart gentleman!!.
I'd like to know who was polled. Everyone I talk to is thankful he is our president instead of John McCain and think that considering the mess he walked into, he's doing a great job. I shudder to think where the country would be if John McCain had won.
That isn't bad at all. 90 percent disagreed with Bush and Chenny. Barack is doing just fine.
In the 50% percent who disagree with Obama you have to include those who think he isn't going far enough. Doesn't mean there is some new shift to the right.
Our country elected a very inexperienced man who had never really accomplished or led anything significant in his entire life. Obama simply does not have the experience, leadership or accomplishment skills to be an effective president. As more time passes, this will become evident to more and more Americans.
You have to understand the huge task that Obama has. 5 decades of presidents have not been willing to take on health care companies.
That is 5 decades of unchecked profits for these companies. I am surprised that health care reform has reached this level. We just might get it. It will not be perfect, but neither is the republican party.
I wasn't contacted for this poll, but you can put me, my wife, family, and friends all in the NO column agreeing to the direction this president is leading our country. Even the die-hard liberals at work are unable to come to this administrations defense on the DoJ's rulings, leftist members of the administration, attacking news outlets, breaking campaign promises, piling more debt, more deficit spending, and just a general lack of leadership. Never has there been such unease about the next two years. Unless Obama starts addressing 80% of the population and stops cow-towing to special interest groups and organizations, there is going to be a huge problem in the upcoming year.
Not everyone thinks Obama walks on water and believes everything he says. He talks all this bull about wanting to do things but dosen't want anyone to question it or how he will pay for it. He is alot of fluff but not much substance. The problem is the dems will not question anything he says. This will reflect in next years elections.
Americans have spoken: no public option and no obama!
Unemployment! Focus! Stop fluttering around campaigning and fundraising! Oh wait, is that Bush's fault too?
Are these polls really necessary. How can you real conduct a poll, say that half American don't agree with Obama but only interview 1,038 people by telephone.. Is this serious. How many people voted last year? Millions! not hundred, not thousands, not tens of thousands, not even hundred of thousands. I just don't get it. This is really getting out of hand.
FROM 'COMMUNITY ORGANIZER TO PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA with a brief stop in the Senate to polish his resume and use taxpayer monies to campaign....WHAT DID U EXPECT?? DUH! Next time vote RECORD not HYPE AND SMOOTH TALK.
CNN Why not: CNN poll: half the country agrees with Obama on issues.
Why not accentuate the positive rather then the negative.
Not as good for ratings if you don't see the glass as half empty right.
President Obama is doing a great job. Regardless of what people try to pretend. He has been president only 10 months and has improved our image world wide. We are further along than ever on health care. It is amazing how everyone wants benefits but does not want to pay for them. A new president does not mean that everything changes overnight. Just like Obama said during the campaign, this is not going to easy and there are not quick fixes to our problems.
So many people disagree with the president because so many people does not read for themselves. They go by what others say.
It's just like how so many people was so blind to believe the lie about the boy in the balloon. Not one person stop to wonder if there were two children outside playing, the other child should have seen if his brother floated away in the balloon. That is just how quickly Americans can be deceived. If it had been something the president said, every one would have had so many reasons not to believe him.
No one polled me.
Those of us who are unable or unwilling to accept change will always find it difficult to agree with changing anything – It is unfortunate that we are creatures of habit and it is very hard to teach the old dogs new tricks – P.S. I am 63 and very willing to go along with our president on what needs to be done – especially with healthcare reform – do it now with a PUBLIC OPTION!!!!!
I wasn't polled, but I do agree with our President on issues, and, I WANT A PUBLIC OPTION. Not too sure if I agree with this poll results, or any poll results for that matter.
So what is the problem. If you can get half a room of people to agree with you. by all accounts in life you are doing good. what is there some expection of total agreement from everyone? Once again CNN just like all the rest of the NEWS companies these days being the Tabloid again. Ballon Boy's. please do some homework.because this is really geting out of hand.
I wish someone could research the so called polling data for Reagan's first term...what did people think of his policies in the first month, then the first two months, then the first three months, then the first three months and one day, and then the [you get the idea]. If they aren't the same or worse, its only because Reagan put eveyone in a deluded state by giving them tax cuts which didn't do anything but make rich folk richer.
This is the same thing Bush did. When you govern from an extremem position, you alienate all but your true base.
And make no mistake, Obama is an hard-core leftist.
WOW...anyone that ever had a joke about the intelligence level of our last president (myself–GUILTY). All they need to do is read the postings from those on the apparent left of this debate on this board to find that it is a widespread issue!!!! Perhaps, we should focus on education first. People who can actually spell words correctly or use proper grammer are far more likely to be in the position to argue their point on health care or an unpopular Presidents approval ratings.
No one poll me, and why CNN always polling? I believe President Obama is doing a great job by the grace of God he makes it to 8 years. I always watch CNN, but now I am really disappointed with the media specially CNN. Please do that for me as a favor let President Obama do his job as a job, stop with that polling the World love him, the polling doesn’t matter.
Go President Obama God is with you, your family, and your administration.
Lots of love,
"What? Who was polled? The deep south and the far right clergy? Give me a break!"
What is wrong with the "deep south and far right clergy?" Are they not Americans worthy of an opinion?
I have never been polled, so I wonder who are those that are always polled or are they only selecting the town-hall shouters? lol
Hard to rate him on how he is doing on the job as president, considering this man never works, too busy campaigning for every Democrat.
Polls will be polls. They change constantly just like the weather. Only time will tell. Also in a global economy there are other factors like, Oh the rest of the world that affect the economy. There is a certain amount of luck involved as far as how things turn out.
I wonder if the people knew that the Press was being greatly manipulated, as Anita Dunn freely admitted in a foriegn country no doubt, if the election results would have been the same. Where is the outcry? If the Bush Administration had done this, and then talked about how they decieved the public, the media would be freaking out.
But, not as much as a whisper can be heard.
Instead, the country is seeing that they did not get what they thought they were paying for. The Man they elected said to jusde him by the people he surrounds himself with....................After further review, I would like a mulligan.
Senior citizens will continue to be the biggest voting bloc against the president. He is simply too different for their old-fashioned ideas.
In 2010, the GOP stands to gain due to the dissafection that this voting bloc has toward Obama. In 2012, the young and middle-aged will have a chance to reverse the power of their numbers during a mid-term election cycle.
Here we go again with the polls, and their misinterpretation. CNN gives us the news that Americans have changed their minds, without examining the possibility that it's Obama who has changed.
If you had asked me at the beginning of Obama's term if I supported his plans, I would have said yes. Now, I'd say no. I didn't change. Obama has failed to do what he proposed: single payer health care (or even a public option), get us out of Iraq, close Gitmo, reverse Bush's Constitution shredding.
When you read polls that say American opinion has changed, remember that it is just as likely, or more so, that America has not been given what it was promised, not that it changed its mind.
That means the other half agrees with him. Wow, big story.
Another stellar feat of journalism by CNN!
Aim high!