Washington (CNN) - Support for President Barack Obama's Afghanistan policy is fairly high, but that hasn't stopped his approval rating from dropping below 50 percent for the first time in a CNN poll.
According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national survey released Friday, 48 percent of Americans approve of the job Obama's doing as president, with 50 percent disapproving. The 48 percent approval is a 7 point drop in approval from last month.
"The poll indicates that the biggest drop in approval comes from non college educated white voters," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "That's one indication among many that Obama's growing unpopularity may be more related to unemployment and the poor economy."
In fact, six in ten Americans questioned say they favor Obama's plan to send 30,000 more troops to that country. Two-thirds also support his plan to start removing U.S. forces from Afghanistan in the summer of 2011 - although the poll indicates most Americans think that announcing that timetable in advance was a bad idea, and they are skeptical whether conditions in Afghanistan in 2011 will actually allow the U.S. to start drawing down troop levels.
Support for Obama's policies does not translate into support for the war itself; a majority still say they oppose U.S. action in that country.
"That may currently be a reflection on George W. Bush rather than Obama," says Holland. "Two-thirds say they blame the former president, not Obama, for the problems the U.S. currently faces in Afghanistan."
But the poll suggests the conflict is eventually going to become Mr. Obama's War, with 54 percent saying they will blame Obama, not Bush, for any problems the U.S. faces in Afghanistan in 2011.
The poll was conducted Wednesday and Thursday, after the president spelled out his new Afghanistan policy in a prime time address Tuesday night at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.
Several late-November polls have indicated Obama's approval rating this low even before his speech at West Point. Weekly averages of national polls showed Obama's approval consistently at 52 or 53 percent from mid-October through mid-November.
"But in the week before Thanksgiving, his average approval rating slipped to 49 percent - solid evidence that something was going on before Obama announced his Afghan policy," adds Holland.
Obama's rating dropped 18 points among non-college whites, but only four points among whites who attended college - a good indication that the economy and other domestic issues are hurting the president.
Obama also dropped 15 points among whites under the age of 50, but only four points among older whites.
"That may partly be due to Afghanistan, but the young are also the group hardest hit when unemployment rises. The same is true for white women, whose approval of Obama dropped 12 points," says Holland.
Obama is not the first president to drop below 50 percent in his first year in the White House. That dubious honor goes to Ronald Reagan, whose approval rating dipped to 49% in November, 1981, and stayed below that mark for two years. Bill Clinton also dropped well below the 50 percent mark by May, 1993 - the fastest on record.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted by telephone, with 1,041 people questioned. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points.
CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report
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Polls are nice.
My company, like so many others, has outsourced our call center to Canada. In so doing they laid off employees that'd been with us for 10+ years. The ex-employees sued, they did'nt get their jobs back but received renumeration. The point being: stop looking at the gov't to find you a job, and start looking at what the private industry could be doing to reduce joblessness, but isn't. Private industry needs to be taken to task for the thousands upon thousands of jobs that in order to increase their profit margin they've shipped abroad. The one thing the gov't COULD do is make it less palatable (ie profitable) for them to do so. IMO
From a supporter to I believe Obama and his cohorts are crazy. He's going down as the worst Pres by far.
Jack C
WA
It is obvious CNN must call more Democrats as average of other polls are 45%, two are at 43% now.
He's gone in four yrs no doubt. He's not very smart – however he can read a telemprompter very well.
Americans falling for the Hollywood type this ADM will go down as the Hollywood ADM Fiasco, and the Whitehouse of Profanity (they swear like the Mafia perhaps would not).
Joanne B
WI
The polls don't mean nothing. Even Obama said once, he doesn't look at polls. I don't see anyone right now that would beat Obama in any election if it held now. I don't see any Republicans that are hopefull to run against him and win, regardless what the polls says. The Republicans going to have to pull a rabbit out of a hat, and that is not going to happen.
"It's the Economy, stupid."
Even the jobs report today has a hollow ring to it. While the good news is the net loss of only 11,000 jobs, the underlying data reveals that the only sectors of the economy showing gains were healthcare and temporary employment services. The former is probably tied to baby boomer's aging while the later is related to the fact that no one is hiring permanent workers with benefits.
Manufacturing was down 41,000, construction fell by 27,000, and the number of "discouraged workers" who have stopped looking for work increased by 253,000. Somehow these numbers don't give me any confidence that the Obama stimulus package is doing much good.
Long overdued!
While FOX Spews celebrates this poll, citizens of a more cerebral nature will conclude that these poll numbers are quite good. While the poll shows a weakening of the Obama's support, considering the spit-laden coverage of the lunatic fringe of the far-right (that's you Fox and Rush), one would think Obama's ratings should be in the 30's, not high 40's.
Considering the mountain of crap left Obama by Bush-Cheney, NO ONE on the RepubliCANT side side of the idle could have come even CLOSE to the effectiveness that Obamahad in dealing with ALL these issues in LESS THAN A YEAR in office.
Obama, while not perfect (no one is), he has, and will keep, this southern white male's support.
President Obama...so many are standing with you.
You know it's got to be bad if even a CNN poll has him below 50%.
At any rate, here' comes the comments:
"Bush was at 30%"
"It tells you that 50% of respondents are morons"
"I didn't get polled – no one asked me"
"Everyone who likes Obama only has a cell phone"
"There were too many republicans polled"
etc. etc. etc.
wow President Bush got 8 years to help get this economy in the shape it is yet President Obama gets 9 or 10 months to fix it. Simply amazing.
Obama still have my support.
Sometines it just takes a while to see through smoke, mirrors and ineptitude. Rookie
Oh no, another straw for the loser Republicans to grasp at.
We won.
You lost.
Get over it.
The Presidents approval is under 50% thanks to the media's incessant analysis of worthless topics, and the "ME" generation who expects everything they can think of "imediately if not sooner". Get real people.. It took the republican morons 15 years to create this chaos and quagmire. It sure isn't going to be resolved in a year especially when so many of the republican engineers of this mess are still stonewalling progress. To those who have a low opinion of the President- shut up and get out of the way – you are not bringing anything to the table except BS. Let people who really care and have and IQ above that of a doorknob get some good and real work done.!
So, is he too left for the righties or too right for the lefties? Well he's too definitely left for the righties - after all, he's a Democrat. But I think the reason his approval is dropping is because he's not being as left as the lefties thought he was going to be. Welcome to reality.
So – are we supposed to believe that the ability to understand economics and international relations is well understood by the white non-elite?
For the rest of the polling data I would just say: it is natural that memories of the worst president ever fade a little over time. Let's not forget Dubya.
We really can't expect Obama to fix within a single year what Bush drove in the ditch over a period of 8 years.
All I know is the tone has changed where I work. Seems the leaking of jobs offshore has slowed WAY down so some of us may actually get to continue our careers. I think that could be part of what may account for only 11,000 jobs being lost in Nov. vs. the 135,000 expected.
I give credit where credit is due. Whether the haters like it or not, President Obama and his administration are making a difference.
Keep it going Mr. President.
In the spirit of open Gov. The Social Secretery to the WH needs to step down. This is not what I voted for. Especially if Secret Service agents fire people. POTUS, please get back on track and get your/my "House/WH" in order. Open and honest order
I think the part that says "non-college educated white folks" says it all.
Most intelligent people approve of the president, and I'm so glad I'm in that catagory.
Now the libs can explain how the messiah is still popular and loved despite what the polls say...
Appears us "Angry folks" are now the majority.
"The poll indicates that the biggest drop in approval comes from non college educated white voters." I don't think that you need to know much else in order to evaluate this poll. Maybe these folks are too busy with their duties on the Teabaggers Express.
Cnn should take a poll of your own media, to see how credible you are
This is NOT rocket science! The country is split almost evenly in half...On the Right, almost every Republican does not approve of him. On the Left, gay rights advocates, liberals who wanted single payer or public option healthcare plan & the those who want to immediately pull out of Afghanistan do not approve of him. Simple math will tell you that more than 50% are unhappy with him right now, but obviously NOT all for the same reasons!! It is also a good indicator that he is on the right track. HE CANNOT please everyone at every moment in time. There are WAY too many issues that have been left to rot, fester and get worse over the years, that now Pres. Obama has to fix. Please people! His term is for 4 years. We have not even reached the end of the 1st one. It takes an elephant more time than this to deliver a calf....sheesh!
So the less educated people that were less likely to vote for Obama in the first place are using their lower education to conclude he is not doing a good job? And these are the same people that think a loss of jobs no matter what is a bad thing and cannot comprehend that an increase of the unemployment rate at a decreasing rate is actually a hopeful sign.
Makes sense to me.
His numbers will never get as low as Cheneys,the greatest criminal that was ever in office.
When CNN polls have a liberal at 48%, its bad news for the liberal.
According to Rasmussen, it's 46%, with 40% strongly disapproving.
The problem with Obama is that he is not Reagan or Clinton....He's Carter.
73% disapprove of government run single payer health care...if anyone cares to know.
Literacy must also hover around 50%
It is amazing that it is even 48%. In a few months I would project it closer to the approval ratings of the do nothing but spend congress. Please see a list of the presidents accomplishments below!!!!
America is finally waking up to the latest fraud we elected! Less than 3 years until we can put Obama back out in the job market and get our country back on track. It's going to be a long three years though.
I think is what is upsetting is I see Pres. Obama working so hard with alot on his plate and people are giving him little support on both sides of the fence. Keep up the good fight Pres. Obama. I cant wait for success to happen. It will not happen over nite. I understand that.
Wow! If even Keating Holland can't progressively focus group a positive performance report then Obama is in deeeeep doodoo now..
I think if the Independants want the chang they want ,thenc they need to side with the Dems to vote out the Republicans.
I can't believe 48% of the people are still under the spell of this awful policies president. He is the worst combination of inexperience, bad policy and hubris. What a disappointment.
What?? The Anti Business, Banks and Wall Street commander that wants to tax the rich until they are poor is falling in the polls!! Go figure!! America has finally woken up and sees the person they elected for who he really is! Like it or not Business and Rich folks create jobs! Rich folks spend money which makes jobs. Keep taxing them to support your social handouts and see how long it takes the economy to expand to the point that jobs are created....
I have never been called for my approval. I am a moderate republican who not only supports Obama but would gladly vote for hm again...happily. I think that your polls are taken in So. Carolina , Alabama, and Mississippi. You know to make a controversy and make news.
Just a matter of time. This happens to everyone! I think the major problem is broken promises and lack of patience! Also, the economy, the war, the status of jobs, overspending, healthcare. I understand this may not be all his fault but all this is on his watch, fair or not! This is just how politics is played out! Is racism a part? Absolutely! But remember folks disliked or even hated Bush too! Politics as usual!
This has nothing to do with Americans expecting things to turn around immediately. This has to do with Americans understanding the policies of Barack Obama. He rarely voted in the Senate and folks did not know where he stood on many issues. They are finding out now and they do not like it. It is as simple as that!
CNN is getting its political cues, polls, etc from FOX news. Welldone CNN, that's why my polls indicate you poll lowest of all Cable News.
This guy is going to be worse then JIMMY CARTER!!!
Now that reality is settling in, little slogans like "change" and "hope" won't help anymore. If Republicans would return to the core principals that they had in 1994, 2010 could repeat history.
2012 can't come soon enough.
There's no looking up at this point for the President. He's done so much damage that when he gets voted out in 2012 he'll be lucky if his ratings are higher than what Carter's were when he left.
AS Obama's agenda becomes clear, it is business as usual,and not the change he promised,people can be fooled easily for awhile but not a long time,and they are watching Obama become another political puppet of the special interest groups,Unions,Enviromentalists,Wall street,and the Elite of the Democratic party. While paying lip service to the working middle class and promises,and promises,and promises,that are hollow lies.
How do you determine who gets polled? No one has ever asked me except these stupid robo calls for local politicians and anti-abortion people.
Have you ever considered that people are just listening to all the public whining and moaning that the Republicans are doing? Any idea where this country might be if John McCainPalin had been elected? It scares me to think about it.
I know this is a novel concept but what if the Congress actually tried to work together instead of scoring political points and fear mongering from BOTH sides? I am so sick of criticism without solutions!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am not surprised." Obama has promised to much to soon". What a mess there was with Bush in charge. I don't really thing obama relized what a job it would be to get the country back on track. As the old saying goes Rome wasn't buildt in a day.
This just shows that we need a more educated population.
Funny thing about CHANGE, it keep changing.
He is a politician of course it's time to start hating him.
How about the cover up the Mercury poisoning coming out of the Obama Administration?
His new FDA chief put Mercury dental fillings back on the safe list. And they put the brain poison ethyl mercury back into the H1N1 vaccine.
The courts already found that the ethyl mercury [which is too toxic and banned from putting on the skin] is linked to autism. The medical issue is over as Case Law has spoken.
Ahem* Your polls mean nothing. All polls, the ones that make me feel good and the ones that make me feel bad are useless pointless and contrived. CNN uses polls in lieu of real journalism. I still approve of the Obama's job performance. He has a difficult job and he is doing the best he can. He has had to make some very un popular decisions.
He is way better than the last president and he will get a second term.
I know that the conservative right will pounce on this. They HATE Obama. They pray and pray for his downfall...even if that includes the downfall of our great nation.
And this is a surprise?
It is easy to see why CNN's ratings are tanking when you are the last to admit that this President's polls are below 50%. Every other major, and more reliable, poll has had him under 50 for a couple of months now. AND this is the first time I have ever heard a news organization say that the majority of people approve of how Obama is handling Afhganistan. Where are the numbers on that one? It seems that CNN is trying to protect Obama as much as possible. However, knowing some of the idiots that post on here, most will believe anything CNN says without actually fact checking it.
Doing the right thing does not generate a lot of support from the left or the right. It is a bit early to judge Obama's performance, as a number of economic indicators are in his favor. Good thing the presidential election is in 2012, and not December 2009.
The campaign is a lot more impressive than the man or the administration. He wants government to do everything. How about getting government out of the way. A jobs summit? How about cutting small (and large) business taxes – it worked in the 80's and Clinton reaped the residuals in the 90's. How about dropping Cap and Trade and not putting businesses at a disadvantage to foreign countries. Right now some businesses are probably wondering if they will be able to afford to operate under this proposal. Not to mention increased costs of fuel, electricity, transportation and inputs. What about taxes proposed on Health Care offered by companies in the Health Reform Bills. None of these encourage job creation or growth.
The 48% approval rating must be from welfare cases.
Obama's popularity and approval rating will continue to drop as
the idea that he approved continuing the Afghanistan war by sending 30,000 more troops!!! And, what a shame, Obama WAS the only hope for the Middle Class and less fortunate. We all know that the War makes rich people richer while continuing the loss of the lives of our
Soldiers. THEY should be brought home. NOW!!!
This decision made the Republicans very happy and will surely kill
"entitlements" for all and the Health Care STRONG PUBLIC OPTION.
I could NEVER vote for a Republican or a Democrat who votes for the
War and against HEALTH CARE. Hard working Americans are losing
their homes over Health Care and Job Los!!!!
As far as President Obama giving a timeline for pulling troops out of Afghanistan was a wise decision. There should be no doubt in anyones mind what our goals are and when we are leaving. Afghanistan has to to get their act together now not later. If we can't afford health care for millions of Americans then we can't afford a war in a foreign country that drags on for years and uses our resorcues at an alarming rate. The degree of corruption in this war would more than pay for health care. Timelines are important and bench marks are important. We now have them-we have only one choice-make it work.
I'll bet the birthers are ecstatic to find this out. The right wingnuts have an approval rating of 20%, republicans 25%. All this reflects a difficult time for all elected officials.
I don't believe it for a second! next time you poll, give me, my friends, family, co-workers and neighbors a call!
I would like to remind those who pay attention to history, that a whole generation of women rallied against Woodrow Wilson because he wasn't getting around them quick enough. And they were partly right! Alice Paul and others didn't stop and 19th Amendment came to pass and now we have the right to vote. Luckily society had not been able to breed the Ann Coulters of the world yet. Larger point – social change, especially for social groups, comes in waves and it is up to you to make your wave now!!!
Obama could never become the worst president, as Bush has sewed that up for all eternity.
May be his approval rating will go up if he mentions he will stop pursuing the Cap and tTrade bill legislation in light of the Climate-Gate scandal breaking in the UK and starting to spread here in the US.
Priceless!
What's funny is independents are polling very close to republicans when it comes to Obama's major policy initiatives.
Obama has realigned the conservative movement back to it's origins of personal responsibility, individual liberty, and limited government once again. Thank god the era Bush's compassionate conservatism will finally be over.
Thank you Obama, exposing yourself and the Democrat's radicalism was just what the country needed to get back on track!
Who cares. Let the man get on with it. If you didn't like him or think he could do the job then why did you vote for him.
If Bush would have concentrated on Afghanistan and combatting terrorism instead of getting his oil buddies access to Iraqi oil fields, there would be no need for Obama to send more troops now.
What I find hard to believe is all the negative comments about Obama when there was very little criticism from the general public when Bush was in office and stood behind that podium in January of 2003 and lied to every American. The yellowcake in Nigeria had already been proven false but he made the statement anyway (and then later had his staff identify a CIA agent because her husband was the one who debunked the yellowcake theory!).
Of course his approval rating is dropping like a rock. He hasn't gotten ANYTHING right in his first year. Unemployment is through the roof and all of his proposals hurt creation of new jobs. One year into his term and he's having a "jobs summit"??? Give me a break!
He obviously thinks he can blame this on Bush forever but the American people aren't buying what he is selling.
This poll must have been done in a Republican nest. Regardless he's still the President of the Free World until 2012.
Don't you know that the 40-45% of this country that doesn't pay taxes are for him? Stick your hand out and get Obummie bucks. Haven't you seen the videos on this? Where does he get the money? From hard working Americans like me!!!! I say if you don't pay taxes you shouldn't be allowed to vote. My back is sore from carrying people.
The primary issue facing Americans when Obama ran for office was lack of representation for the majority of Americans and an increasing focus on groups that represent the wealthy minority in all facets of government and economy. The Obama administration has lost that primary focus... from the first day in office. I believe that he can be a strong leader, but he needs to step up and support the majority of Americans which was his platform. The rhetoric of throwing out the lobby voice disappeared... we remain without true representation and it is the biggest problem in this country. The bailouts is not how to step up... changing the representation focus in this country is how to step up. We're strong and we'll fight through economic challenges... if the wealthy folks who created the mess suffer the challenges as well. As long as the wealthy get huge executive compensation and huge bonuses and capitalize on tax loopholes at the expense of the majority of Americans... the entire government is going to lose support.
IT'S OKAY TO ADMIT YOU ARE DISAPPOINTED, LIBERALS.
It doesn't make you stupid, it doesn't make you betray your policies, and it certainly doesn't make you a racist.
It makes you a realist, and an honest person.
For once, admit your disappointment. We do. Most Conservatives admit that Bush and his advisers were epically bad. Today's Liberals, for whatever reason, would follow their messiah off a cliff if he led them there. It's saddening.
Amercians are as fickled as a school girl....besides if I had to choose between the direction the Republicans want to take this country verses President Obama....I have to stand with our current president.
No one in the my life time has been faced with the challenges President Obama faces...NO ONE! So you can take this poll and any future polls and flush it...President Obama is doing an outsatndaing job.
Obama/Biden
2008/2012
I think Obama's approach is to do the best he can and let the polls take care of themselves. Harry Truman followed that strategy. He started out as unpopular, then won a dramatic election victory, then ended up unpopular again – until historians re-evaluated his accomplishments. He, like Obama, had to deal with a Democratic majority in Congress that consisted of small men with small minds combined with a Republican minority that was, like this one, insane.
When compared with the imaginary ideal president, Obama is lacking I guess. When compared to living men and women who might be considered for the presidency, he stacks up pretty well.
Let me ask those who criticize Obama, what would they do differently about Afghanistan, the economy, climate change, health care, etc.? The Conservative answer is "Nothing. We would do absolutely nothing. We would let these problems solve themselves – or not. It's not our problem."
Republicans, what would President McCain be doing differently that you would support?
Obama has been dropping in the polls since this last summer. The CNN poll is the fifth major poll to show Obama's approval rating below 50%. And all polls show he has been dropping for months now. Obama is not delivering on his promises and he and his priorities are out of touch with a majority of voters. Little by little voters are realizing that Obama is governing as a liberal on domestic issues while polls show the majority of voters are center right.
The highest priorities of a majority of voters are the jobs, the economy and the out of control growth in the deficits. Not health care reform and cap and trade. And a growing majority of voters view the stimulus as failded in terms of jump starting the economy and creating jobs.
Until Obama can deliver positive results on jobs and the economy and defict reduction, he will contiune to fall in the polls.
Obama is a loser and it shows today. I'm glad America is finally waking up. Let's vote this empty suit out in 2012!!
Barack Obama is the best President we have had in a long time. He is forced to do things which will make him unpopular in order to fix the mess that he was left with. The sad situation we are in is directly attributable to the incompetence and greed of the Republican party and the right wing radicals who call themselves conservatives. It doesn't help that they are fighting him in order to score political points. They don't care about Americans, just their bank accounts. Mr. Obama is showing great courage in doing what he thinks is right in the face of an avalance of lies and criticism.
The popularity of real media has dropped because the extreme media of Fox usually reports made up or untrue stories. Shoddy journalism seems to sell to the uninformed. Beck and Hannity have one mission, and they are not going to let facts get in the way.
Hershey shipped overseas.
Whirlpool shipped overseas.
And Americans keep buying Hershey's and every appliance imaginable at Sears, etc. Every appliance sold in the USA is
made overseas.
As someone here stated, the government needs to make it
less palitable, (profitible) to ship companies overseas.
It is all the result of greed, as if these companies did not make
enough profit right here in the good ole USA.
They want OUR Soldiers to fight and die for our country and they treat
the families who put bread on the table like nobody's!!!!!!
WE NEED jobs and Health Care Reform with a VERY STRONG
PUBLIC OPTION NOW!!!! The Republicans are not interested in
MEDICARE, UNEMPLOYMENT, SOCIAL SECURITY. IF THEY COULD,
OR IF THEY HAD THE POWER, THEY WOULD END THEM RIGHT NOW!!
I am so against this continuence of the WAR. NO MORE WAR.
OUR COUNTRY'S MIDDLE CLASS IS WANING AND WILL BECOME
OBSOLETE.
DO NOT VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN OR A DEMOCRAT THAT WON'T
VOTE FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM
OBAMA WAS OUR LAST CHANCE!!!! HE NEEDS TO RECONSIDER!!!
Polls change like the weather. You want to see Obama's polls
skyrocket, let the GOP announce Sarah Palin as it's candidate.
*YAWN*
The dramatic change in jobs lost will help a little. Next month, when we see positive jobs growth (rather than negative) for the first time in two years, that will help (as will Christmas).
When health care finally passes it will help a lot.
Then there will be a State-of-the-Union address, which will give him a 5 point boost, and an olympic games which will give him at least 3 points.
So going into the spring he'll probably be sitting very comfortably at over 55% again. During the spring and summer we should see constant jobs growth, which will help a lot (both for the poll numbers and more for us).
By next fall he should be unassailable, and the right will be tripping over themselves trying to recant much of the BS vitriol they're spewing today.
I think if anything President Obama tried to do TOO much TOO soon and now it's starting to come down on him a bit much. I think in this first year of office he should have focused on the economy and jobs, he should have left healthcare alone. It's the healthcare crisis that is bringing his numbers down because all the mis-information got out there first and the damage was done...right wing folks can't change their mind once a seed is planted. Plus now people in his own party are not in favor of this war...whereas the far right are in favor of it but refuse to support him on anything else. The economy is slowing starting to come bacl....job growth all though slow will start to come around. Healthcare is now his big problem and if they shelf it now it would called a failure and he needs no more of that.
Yep, not surprised at all. With the Republican hate at its highest level in decades, I'm sure Americans are getting very antsy about President Obama fixing the economy, Iraq and Afghanistan immediately. Now, just because those haters had 7-8 years to break the economy, get us involved in one illegal war while ignoring an important one, and isolating us from the world community shouldn't affect their decision.
For a President to come into office with all the advantages that Obama had with unparalled media support , Hollywood cheering , and unprecidented celebration by a political party as a whole (In this case the Dems really out Demmed themselves) Obama has been a huge disappointment.
The Rhetoric hasn't changed.Obama still hasn't learned that you can't just blame the previous administration in every speach and go for cheap applause lines with little or no detail over an entire year after you have been elected.
If Obama wants to be a leader that he claimed he would be then he needs to be tougher on the Dems in congress and the Senate to actually make an effort to work in a Bi-partisan manner on the tough issues of today and realize that most of America realizes that Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Frank, Boxer, Dodd,Maxine Waters, and other Dems that are so outspoken in partisan ways just don't have a clue what they are doing aside from running for re-election.
Time to lead Mr. President. Hard choices aren't about popularity or appeasing the Dixie Chicks who are dumber than a stump. Own up to your mistakes of the past in all of the above mentioned failing to heed the warnings of non other than the Bush Adminstration in 2001 and 2003 about the sub prime mortgage problems and issues with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and get to work.
In a few more months these numbers are going to look great to Obama.
Interesting that 48% still approve. Pretty close to the 47% of Americans who pay no federal tax. I bet there's a lot of overlap in these two groups.
@Joe, 3 years before the last election no one would have bet on Obama either. There are plenty of Republicans who actually have executive experience who can run in 2012. If Obama keeps going like he is, it won't take a superstar to beat him. A telling statistic is his big drop among women and those under 50. these are both demographics that he carried by wide margins to win.
President Obama is an embattled president.
The messy load of problems dumped into his lap especially the economic woes stemming from the two wars America is stuck with (thank you Bush, Chenye & Partners), are bogging him down.
The ratings went down because he came in as a harbinger of 'Change" and people do not see that happening. Be it the Middle East perennial quagmire, Iraq, Afghanistan ,economy,health care, nothing seems to be happening. Staus Quo rules.
He has to get out from under the menacing shadows of the lobbies,special interest groups ,allies who think USA is just a big milking cow & twist our arms whenever they feel like it. Do what the Constitution allows him to do for the people & to heck with the interests of the others. America & Americans should take priority over
all else. If this starts happening America & its President would be again where its our right to be on this planet.
If it is due to the non college educated, does that mean the college educated people always disapproved of him. And if that is true, is it because people in college have to take economy classes and understand that if someone promises you more and says you are going to pay less, that something does not add up.
The lowest approval comes from non college educated white voters. This shouldn't be a worry since many of them don't have healthcare/jobs/education and will likely be dead in 2012.
Biggest drop is by uneducated. That would be due to the simple fact the uneducated were the easiest for him to fool. Little to late now. We are forced to live with this huge mistake.
Goodness me, I am very surprised that President Obama's approval rating is even that high! Have there been a past president that have had to contend with the myriads of problems buffeting Mr President since the inception of his presidency? An economy in abject squalor. An opposition party hell-bent on scuttling his every efforts regardless. A bunch of no-good Republicans-in-Democrats clothing within his own party who relish nothing but any chance to show their Big Business paymasters what excellent nefarious inside jobs they are doing for their keep. Add to these our penchant for instant gratification which makes it very hard for us to understand why Mr President have not fixed within one year an economic mess more than eight years in the making.
Good grief! I really thought that they would have done him in by now. There may still be hope for those of us who gave up a long time ago!
It's at 48% and dropping.
Obama has screwed up on just about everything.
He lies and exaggerates how many jobs his dear stimulus has created and even refuses to correct the web site on known inaccurate statements on jobs created.
He makes fun of Tea Party patriots who protest the massive growth in the deficits and now much latter speaks out against them himself. But does not acknowledge that the Tea Party protersters were or are correct in their concerns about the deficit. What kind of crap is that?
He pretends climategate does not exist or matter when in fact climategate calls into question the very crediblity of the global warming science. Obama and the major TV networks can pretend climategate does not exist, but it is a big deal in many major newspapers and Fox News. Just about everyone knows about it and pretending it does not exist makes Obama look just plain stupid.
Obama took months the come to a decision on Afganistan that almost no one likes.
Obama is become a bigger faliure and joke by the day. One term and done.
In the first place, jobs are a lagging indicator in an economy. This means the recession can be started with out many jobs being cut at first, it also means that the economy can start to grow long before job cuts stop and rehires start. It is a "well duh" moment that jobs are still being lost. As for the President's popularity – actually I wouldn't want him making decisions based on his popularity so I find it reassuring that he is making unpopular decisions that seem well thought out. Maybe this means a President trying to do the right thing instead of trying to get re-elected 10 months into his term.
He fooled a lot of people during the campaign and now they are seeing what the unions, ACORN and George Soros really shoved on the American people. Will go down as the most unpopular and worst president in our history thanks to the liberal wing nuts.
I predict Obama's approval rating will drop like a rock the closer we get to 2012.
ONE and DONE.
Start the chant.
Begin the drumbeat.
I especially like the part about how this poll is more of a reflection of Bush (?), good try.
I think there is more smear going around on Obama than there has been in recent history for a President and on things that are not legitimate. People are raising fear in the most horrendous way to the extent it's getting scary. It's sad how racism and fear still run high in American.
On a separate note, those who say to pull out of the war now are foolish. There are those out there that have been taught since birth to kill Americans and sadly a nice little talk with them isn't going to change their mind. When a liberal president decides to send more troops over you should realize how serious it is.
Every single one of these "Obama approval rating drops" posts inevitably gets inundated with the usual "people are waking up" and "how are hope and change workin for ya?" bromides that the right wing has become so fond of.
CNN should really emphasize (and I mean in big bold red letters) that these dropping poll numbers are a reflection of disaffected liberals, otherwise the GOP base will interpret these articles as proof that support for their hateful, paranoid tea party movement is increasing, which only goes towards galvanizing the least educated and most heavily-armed segment of the population.
Please don't worry about approval ratings. You are doing a great job. It is not easy to put together a country that has almost fallen apart. We are all proud of you Mr. president.
When you are sitting on a throne with the rich and famous, it must be easy to give up your ideals. To compromise on HEALTH CARE REFORM, LOBBIESTS WHO RUN THE COUNTRY, WAR AND SENDING MORE TROOPS TO AN ENDLESS WAR, SENDING JOBS OVERSEAS, ENTITLEMENTS, THE DEFICIT AND WHAT WE OWE CHINA, IS A CONTINUENCE OF THE REPUBLICANS AND THE BUSH
DOCTRINE RUNNING OUR COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Romneys, Huckabees, and the McCain's, Grassley and the Boener's of our Governments HAVE GOT TO GO.
Did ya see folks, how HAPPY the Republicans were to hear
OBAMA extending the war in Afghanistan??? DID you see???
And, the RICH HEALTH CARE companies running the "scare tactic"
adds on T.V. are outrageous! They are "betting" on Americans to
be really dumb a__ idiots!!!!! Which we are if we let them get away
with not passing Health Care with a Strong PUBLIC OPTION!
I am a senior and I am all for the Public Option for all. they don't
scare me.
President Obama's approval rating with me is 100%!
Let's hope it goes WAY down and America gets this Bozo out!!!-as Mike from Syracuse said..."2012 can't come soon enough!"-AMEN!!!!\
But all the Bots will say "Polls-Smolls"-BO-nice guy-not president material.
@ Dominican Mama-where's your Always Present praise for BO now???
In total agreement with Indy voter & Tom in Va there are so many issues being tackled by this President simultaneously AND effectively. I can almost see the 'bated breath' of the non-contributing, and quite frankly, flat-out lying detractors on this site waiting for Obama to make a significant mistake. Give credit where credit is due and maybe your comments might carry more weight. It would also help if the detractors kept their irrational and all too predictable spin into the land of NO FACTS ALLOWED down to a minimum. How can you expect to be taken seriously when you're still talking about the President's place of birth legitimacy. It's lunacy.
Obama has and is doing more to help our country than ANYONE could've expected udner these circumstances. That's a fact. More people stand behind him and support him than those that wish for him and the country to fail. That's a fact. This is our country: yours and mine. That's a fact. Either piss or get off the pot, but stop being a hindrance, and a negative entity when it comes to the success of the USA. It's going to take a village to fix us. Be a part of it.
Just another string of broken promises, I voted for Obama once
not gonna make the same mistake twice.
"Dominican mama 4 Obama" highlights the hypocrisy of liberals – chastise Republicans for not creating jobs, but defend Democrats by saying you should blame the private sector for job losses.
Let's face it. Obama, and for that matter any [D], are facing an uphill battle to begin with to get their approval rating to go significantly over 50%.
To see this, merely recall the 2000 election where 50% of voting Americans actually CHOSE to put an inexperienced, failed [R] ideologue in the office of the presidency. And then recall that in 2004, after re-proving to the whole country his tendancy towards failure and inflexible adherence to rightwing ideology, about 50% of the American voters inexplicably CHOSE again to go with the known [R] FAILURE.
Apparently 50% of the American public don't have the brains God gave to lab rats, to distinguish between good vs bad, right vs wrong, success vs failure. Thus in any poll that has a progressive with brains as its subject, 50% of the American people can be counted on to mis-place their support and approval for NO good reason at all.
Just look at the demography of the drop in Obama's approval: domninated by uneducated white people.....the VERY people that the rightwing underbelly of this nation feasts on. 8 years of FAILED [R] policy, that they themselves supported for the most part, lost these people their jobs.....and they are too stupid/partisan to remember. Pathetic.
Let me see if I get this straight, Obama's numbers drop and it's still a "reflection on George Bush"? When will the current President be held accountable for his actions? The next administration?
I am surprised it is as high as it is..........considering Obama is the worst president ever and we are stuck with this Disaster in Chief for another 3 years!!
"the biggest drop in approval comes from non college educated white voters,"
Funny how that works, isn't it?
I can't believe how ignorant some people are. I know things are going to get better because our president is doing the best he can to improve very poor conditions in a very short time in many aspects. But, again, for some people, everything is just about hate and criticism without solutions. What a shame.
First, let me say I am willing to bet a days pay that all of you who say polls do not mean anything, were the same people ranting and raving about what the polls said prior to election day.
Second
Tom in Virginia
>>>>>Considering the mountain of crap left Obama by Bush-Cheney,
My god, How long are you going to beat this dead horse? Blame Bush, blame Cheney, blame Fox News, Rush, Hannity and whatever Republican you can come up with. Give it up, stop the blame game, please.
Augustine December 4th, 2009 12:26 pm ET
>>>"The poll indicates that the biggest drop in approval comes from >>>>non college educated white voters." I don't think that you need to >>>>know much else in order to evaluate this poll.
So, what are you saying here? The fact I am a blue collar person with only high school education, that I do not know enough about the world and condition of the US to be worth a poll question.
That my opinion should revolve around stereo typed attitudes that if I do not have a college education, I must be a tea bag person of low intelligence?
I find it funny how many college educated people work right along side of me doing blue collar work. They puff thier chest out and tell me I have four years of college,,, I say, Yep, grab the shovel and get back to work, because I am your supervisor and I was just an average high school kid. But oh yea,,, I am nothing in your eyes,, right?
Last,,, where is Obama today,,,, back on his campaign trail again. Doing speeches to tell people his dream. Just stop, do your job, or grab a shovel and come work beside the people who do not approve of you right now.
Obama is finished. Folks are right that he has only had 10 months to try to change the environment. However, the folks are smart and know that the policies he has implemented to change it are failing and will not work.
Thus his poll numbers will continue to slide, the Republicans will sweep in 2010, Obama will get crushed in 2012 and Sarah Palin will be President.
By that time everyone will be so feed up with Obama that "Gumby" could run against him and get elected. This is what happened with Bush. Everyone was finished with him and it is why Obama won. Any Democrat could have won.
Obama's policies are hurting the country and he will not win again unless he changes.
Obama is a joke.
He is a liberal progressive who pretened to be a centerist to get elected. He tried to get his liberal agenda passed thru congress with the liberal leadership of Pelosi and Reid before the center right majority of voters figured out what was happening. It didn't work as center right Blue Dog democrats slowed the process down and the country figured it out.
Now Obama is stuck. He can continue to try and cram his liberal agenda down the throats of a center right majority of voters. Or move to the center like Clinton did and piss off the liberal wing of his own party.
Either way Obama is a one term president. He gives a good speech, but he is terrible at actual governing.
Oh ignorant people, the present government can do only so much. This is a worldwide crisis and Obama is not God. No Republican can do better and their tax cut agenda will only cause more burden.
At least there are no tax increase "as yet" but you all seem to think the government should employ 6 million people. Oh what crazy and foolish ideas.
Only independent businesses can turn the tide of unemployment and it takes time. Everyone looks at the numbers over the past 11 months and expect a sudden change; this is impossible. In the same breath, you crazy people complain about big government; while talking about government taking over everything.
There is only one reason why this insane attitude continue today; you are all illiterate, lazy, ignorant, uneducated and above all foolish.
You are in and were born in the greatest nation on earth; why then are you not educated? Why don't you all have PHD or at least and masters degree? Had you gone to school and college; earned a solid education, you would have nothing to complain about.
Jobs are available for anyone with the required experience and education but because you waste your days in school or preferred to waste your parents earning, you now find reasons to complain.
Join the welfare line then and pretend to be good Americans. I call you foolish, insane and a waste of space while using precious resources in a wasteful manned. Get educated!
President Obama has already change the world for the better, noone can take that away from him. If the people of this country are too busy to pay close attention and hunger for more GOP policy. I hope you get what you wish for... and more. Misery is always there to hold your hand.
bwahahahaha- If you subtract about 7 or 8 percentage points from the CNN poll that is most likely the actual number. 40 to 41% approval is more like it. WOW, you libtards are doomed in 2010 no matter how much denial you are in. Oh and 2012 (if he is not impeached first) fuggeddaboutit.
Speaking for Liberals December 4th, 2009 12:50 pm ET
He is way better than the last president and he will get a second term
How long are you liberals going to play this silly game?
Blame Bush, Cheney, Rush, Hannity, Orielly, all Republicans, anyone who is involved with Tea parties or speaks out at town hall meetings.
Whats next, the easter bunny and Santa,,,, I suppose so if you find out they voted republican.
I am tired of hearing,, wah, wah, wah, ,,,, it is not OUR fault. It is ALL Bushes fault.
Aenta just announced that because their profit margin was not enough in 2009 that they are cutting 600,000 from their rolls in 2010.
They need to make more money.
Now do you see why we need a strong public option to compete with these theives?
Fix it now! Now! Now! I want mine now! Mine,mine, mine! It's been almost a year already! What's wrong with you!? Hurray up! I can't wait. I can't! I can't! WaahhaaWahaaaaa.
We have a distinct problem in this country with patience and memory and myopia.
If, after three years, jobs are not on the rise, medical costs are not beginning to be on the way to stability, troops are not on their way out of Afghanistan and there's no hope of the uninsured to be insured, then I will think there's been great oratory and an equally great vacuum.
Wow... seems like anyone in an elected office can share common ground with sports athletes you see on TV. It's easy to point fingers and judge someone who fumbled or made a mistake while completely forgetting what they really do on the field. Sadly, the world is made up of armchair quarterbacks....Bill O, Glenn Beck, Republicans, Dems, etc. All pointing fingers without offering viable solutions. If you don't like the direction we're heading speak to your elected officials with your concerns (and hopefully your ideas) and if they won't listen? Vote them out.
We do have options, just make sure you use them before it's too late.
" If Republicans would return to the core principals that they had in 1994, "
YOu do realize that one of th efirst things out of Gingrich's mouth in 1994 when they took back congress was to say they would let Medicare and Social Security "wither on the vine," don't you? But hey, I suppose if the "non college educated" Americans out there want to vote against their own interests (again), then so be it. We can pretty much sign off on America's demise without health care reform, and you morons out there don't even realize that the current fleecing we're all taking from big business and Wall Street, particularly the insurance industry, is all because they're consolidating whatever they can get their hands on before the country goes belly up for real.
99% of us are sick of the polls
You Libs are the biggest Hypocrites on earth. Defense Secretary Gates is touting Obama's decision to use the same tactics that Bush used in Iraq. Obama and all you drones were against the Military Surge in Iraq. How can a poll show 50% of democrates (ie Statist) for Obama's Afghanistan tatics but when democrapes where 75% against Bush's Iraq tatics when the tatics are essentially THE SAME!!
I know how the liberal media must hate having to trot out the truth on the polls nos. for Obama. I see no rise in his poll nos. in the near future either. I applaud the conservatives, tea party movement, & our GOP members on the Hill for helping to shine the truth on this socialist admin. and the liberal Dems in congress who are out to destroy all that's good about this country. Keep up the good work!
A man with no experience in business, international relations or the military was elected President of the United States and people are actually surprised that he's having some problems?
We're less than a year into his term – not early enough for me to judge yet. I waited two years before I started judging Bush's successes/failures and worrying about his poll numbers. I'll give Obama the same benefit.
Many Americans are not so patient. I'm willing to give the president (regardless of party) time to start showing results, because one year is barely enough time for a president to get things rolling.
Poll numbers at this stage are too malleable to accurately show anything but gut sentiment. If Obama starts showing success within the next year, poll numbers will go up. If he fumbles, they will slide. It is a sign of how deeply divided the country is, though.
Just shows what a lack of intelligence there is out there.. I'll predict this that by next summer his poll number will be in the mid 50s when jobs start getting better. People never look at the long term as they want is immediate gradification.. I support you Mr. President. Keep up the good work... P.S. I didn't get polled..
I really had alot of HOPE with Obama that it would be a new start for America. He has broken everything he promised for. Where's the transparancy he spoke of? Why can't I read the bills presented, then email my government officials before they vote on it....like he promised. Why hasn't the Iraq war stopped like he said it would? Why is he funding African's to have abortions with my tax money? Why is he printing trillions of dollars out of thin air?
Let me leave you with this analogy: If we are playing monopoly together. And I am doing poorly for example. Then I go upstairs to my color printer and print off 50,000 dollars in monopoly money. Then your 2,000 you had, (that you were going to buy Boardwalk from another player)...just became worthless. Why? Because I just bought it for 10,000 dollars that I gave myself in my "bailout". Each time I print off fake monopoly money, your money just gets more and more worthless.
Gold is going through the roof. Thanks Obama – you SOCIALIST!!!!
It'd be a bit higher if the Republicans didn't lie so much about him. They're fear tactics have some effect.
That number has actually been below 50% for some time in several other polls. You guys are just catching up.
OH PLEASE!!!!
Republicans would KILL for a 48% approval!! They're circling the drain with 20%, INO over TWICE as many people approval of Obama as approve of republicans!!!
Please stop basing your poll numbers on the calls to John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rush, Newt, George, Dickie, John Boehner, etc. Call REAL American people. Your numbers will be drastically different – i.e. they will show we support a President who can make a decision – like it or not.
Obama is constantly scrutinized by the media or having his performance rated constantly. Why do people think this is constantly happening? His intentions may be good but he's not God! I am apprehensive about sending more troops as well but the war has been started and now it must be finished.
Gee, why would this be....let me count the ways:
Almost 1 TRILLION dollars spent on "stimulus".......Failed
His promise to bring the troops home.......................Failed
His promise of transparency........................................Failed
Cash for Clunkers..........................................................Failed
His promise to cut spending......................................Failed
His promise of no earmarks........................................Failed
His efforts to gain support from China/Russia on anything....Failed
Bringing the Olympics to USA...................................Failed
One of the very few times I agree with Dominican mama 4 Obama.
As far as the subject matter of the article, and my points of view, I agree with our President on some points but differ on some of his main points like healthcare. I cannot understand how democrats voted to have lobbyists and politicians determine what kind of care you can receive that will be covered by this government insurance. This is an outrage and should not be allowed. This needs to be taken out of the bill and Republicans have asked for that but democrats yesterday turned them down. How can we allow politicians and lobbyists to determine what kind of care my doctor can give me??
I think we all need to bring this up and have this changed. This is disgusting.
It is reasons such as this as to why Obama's ratings are dwindling.
I see we have a lot of people who think they know what the answer is to everything. You got the left wing nutjob blaming everything on the Republicans, because that's all he/she knows to do. You got some other idiot foaming at the mouth because he.she thinks differently about the war. Of course, they have all the answers.
The only correct answer I have read is, "Obama bit off more than he can chew!" Sorry, folks, he's destroying America. Smile, because you are being flushed down the toilet. Compliments of King Obama!
As Americans, we have attention spans ranging from 0 to 1 second and demand what we want right away. To assume Obama is going to be "another Jimmy Carter" is completely bogus. It's impossible to judge an entire presidency based on work done in less than a year – especially with how bogged down legislation can get. You can't just snap your fingers and make the unemployment rate drop rapidly. Give him some credit for trying new ideas. We all know where we would be if neo-conservative was in office – moving backwards.
It is a shame that the media has taken it upon itself to look for every possible way to slander the president in any way shape or form. So what his approval rating is not good...look at what shambles the country was in before he took over. In this age of instant gratification, it is not an overnight fix. It will take time, and the good thing about Obama is that he is fixing things with the long run in mind. In five or ten years we do not want this to occur again. And with the less than educated teenagers we have now, this would really be an issue when its their turn to run the country. WE ARE IN PERIL, if the changes do not take place and soon. Let him do his job, he is aware of his accountability, and what the decisions he will make will do the U.S.
Obama may in fact be the worst person in US that we could have elected as President...except for all the rest.
Looks like 52 percent of America finally woke up.. Hope and Change my @#@...
I firmly believe Obama will be remembered as one of America's greatest presidents! Certainly as great as Truman or Kennedy, and in the rank of FD Roosevelt.
Pres. Obama tackles the most difficult problems, understands issues thoroughly, does not follow the whims of public opinion, inspires our best instincts, and makes tough decisions (on the economy, energy, education, foreign policy, etc.) that will strengthen our country for years to come. I am tremendously proud we elected him.
President Obama has done everything he said he would do while campaigning. Anyone who doesn't like him is either stupid, or has a vested interest!
Another poll CNN? I remember when Bush was President and you rarely polled about him. Yet, every week you are polling about Obama.
Bush and his accomplices damaged this country like it's never been damaged before. And it's not just the phony war in Iraq or the torture memos that justified waterboarding. It's millions of missing emails and the constant use of executive privilege and signing statements.
It's the secretive meetings with Enron and other energy executives and the wholesale firing of federal prosecutors. It's trying to get the president's personal attorney seated on the Supreme Court and that despicable Alberto Gonzales sitting in front of congressional investigators whining, "I don't remember, I don't know, I...etc."
It's the domestic eavesdropping in violation of the FISA Court, the rendition prisons, and the lying. It's looking the other way while the City of New Orleans drowned and its people were left to fend for themselves.
It's the violations of the Geneva Conventions, the soiling of our international reputation and the shredding of the U.S. Constitution. It's the handing over of $700 billion to the Wall Street fat cats last fall, no questions asked. Where is that money? What was it used for?
It's the no-bid contracts to firms like Halliburton and Blackwater and the shoddy construction and lack of oversight of reconstruction in Iraq that cost American taxpayers untold billions.
If the Republicans were serious about restoring their reputation, they would join the call for a special prosecutor to be appointed so that at long last justice can be done.
It's too late for George W. Bush to resign the presidency. But it's not too late to put the people responsible for this national disgrace in prison.
The election of this nation's first African-American president and his massacre of John McCain in the Electoral College is because of Cheney and President Bush and the myriad problems they left us all with.
We have a GREAT President now.
When do you people who constantly attack this president think this recession started? I doubt that most of you know, so I will tell you! It started at the end of 2007, a FULL YEAR BEFORE BUSH LEFT OFFICE!!! What did George W. Bush do for that year to try to help the economy???? All I hear is deafening silence. That's because he did NOTHING until the end of his term when he threw the TARP money (for Wall Street) together in a huge hurry because we were on the brink of financial meltdown! Why can't you people understand that the mess created by George W. Bush and his party is not going to be fixed in the first year of President Obama's term??? Do you have heads full of bricks instead of brains???!!!! Instead of constant back-stabbing and attacking President Obama who, unlike George W. Bush, IS helping the economy, why don't just once try to support your president and your country instead of trying to tear it down????
People are finally beginning to catch on that Mr Wonderful hasn't a clue what he's doing as President.
It's fairly plain he took office thinking he could just somehow wave a magic Presidential wand and ping! everyone would just suddenly fall in love with the idea of socialised medicine. Another couple ofpings! and the troops would be home Iraq and the economy would recover over the week-end.
Reality sucks. It must suck especially hard when you kinda think of the entire US as a big Chicago community, where everyone fundamentally agrees with you on most issues, just waiting, eager, to be "organised".
It's pretty obvious Obama is just little short of being overwhelmed by his job–and resigning to turn the whole mess over to Joe Biden would be even more of a fiasco than the one Obama's already in.
soooo..it's below 50% because he saved the banks and auto industry (who are now paying the money back with interest) or because he wants healthcare for the american people? or is it because he gave an exit strategy for an 8 year war? or is it because we went from losing 750,000 jobs to 11,000 with unemployment starting to go down? All in less than a year, oh yeah he is doing such a horrible job-"rolls eyes*
People. Obama is doing "the best HE can". The problem is it may not be good enough. Although I did not and will not vote for him b/c of his policies/political beliefs, I do believe that he (and past leaders) is doing what HE/his advisors thinks is best. The problem is his best is not good enough at this time (according to the polls).
Time will tell.
I respect President Obama very much and believe he is given much more info. then we will ever know. However, he claimed to bring the troops home. People who have been on the ground and serving in Afghanistan have said it's nothing other than a civil war. What are we trying to accomplish. It is known that most muslim extremists are no longer in Afghanistan. We are creating more hatred for the US just by our presence there. It's been a civil war that no one has defeated. What do we need to prove. I was hoping his witness to the bodies coming off the plane which made such a profound impact on him would change his mind. REALIZING PEACE BEGINS BY PUTTING DOWN YOUR WEAPONS. We don't belong there and need to use the funds being spent on this war which will never result in a victory on things like education. The most important thing for building up our future. I only hope he brings the troops home soon. Listens to people who are on the ground and realize extremists of the Muslim religion our in many countries including our own. We need to bring the troops home and really make an example out of his winning of the Nobel Peace Prize. I would only wish the support to leave Afghanistan and the polls would help him bring these troops back to their families.
Yeah – wow tough blow for Obama -
I mean let's see what are Mitch McConnell and John Boehner polling at? Oh that's right 14% and 16% respectively.
Wake me when the Rethuglicans break 20%.
At Right leaning Independent:
"What?? The Anti Business, Banks and Wall Street commander that wants to tax the rich until they are poor is falling in the polls!! Go figure!! America has finally woken up and sees the person they elected for who he really is! Like it or not Business and Rich folks create jobs! Rich folks spend money which makes jobs. Keep taxing them to support your social handouts and see how long it takes the economy to expand to the point that jobs are created...."
The Obama Administration HAS cut taxes; and keep in mind the "social handouts go right back into feeding the economy." If the unemployed had no money then things would be much worse. economics 101...trickle down economics did not work in the 80 of trying to allow the rich to keep everything to create jobs because it only caused inflation, but taxing the rich in the 90's under clinton allowed the economy to see an economic surplus, once Bush reversed that we saw yet another collapse in the system. And please do your research on the stimulus bill. 2/3 of that money hasn't even been spent yet. Patience is required and these polls are just a snap shot of fear mongering and the nay sayers going into the holidays.
You are not an independent if you listen to all the rhetoric without doing your own research...hince right leaning. People on the right tend not to be very intuitive and offer no real solutions.
Wellfare as you are afraid of calling it is helping this country squeak by. And not everyone on wellfare is on it because they are lazy or want to see the rich taxed out of existence there are plenty of professionals on wellfare from almost every industry. Get a grip.
Glad I didnt vote for him, I have been saying from day one, that Obanana was a joke, lier and a smoke blower and now it shows.
And your surprised? He's turning this country against itself.. Pretty soon we will be eating our young.
I'm tired of Mr. Obama apologizing for our country.. and as a result me.
I would like to apologize to the country that he is now in the highest office of our country and shows such disrespect for the people here.. of course unless your part of his Socialist/Marxist agenda.
Well good luck with that Barrack.. I doubt the American people will make the same mistake in 2012... and then you can go back to Chicago where you belong.
Lessee...
Creating this mess: 8yrs
Expectations that said mess will be fixed within 8mths: Silly.
Since 1/2 the counrty was divided it does not surprise me that his polls are so low. Want onion soup, someone has to cut up some onions.
Less mistakes than Bushcheneyrove for sure..
Well maybe not Pelosi..
Need to give this time, there will be mistakes. I think we will come out ahead given 4-6yrs.
Give it time.
-Moo
@Tom in VA : "Considering the mountain of crap left Obama by Bush-Cheney, NO ONE on the RepubliCANT side side of the idle could have come even CLOSE to the effectiveness that Obama had..."
Ron Paul.
On the economic mess, he's been right every time. On foreign policy, he likely would have done what Obama promised–shutting down the Iraq mess–but failed to deliver. And I seriously doubt he'd have waded into the swamp that's been sinking armies since the time of Alexander the Great, Afghanistan.
Don't worry, Obama fans. It's just the stupid white folks that disapprove. The intellectuals, like Keating Holland, still love him. How many times in this spin-article could they mention that non-college educated whites had the biggest drop?
NO SURPRISES HERE! Been trending downward for several months now!! But of course, the Administration pays NO attention to the Polls when they are trending downward...saying they don't really mean anything..>BUT...when they are trending Upward...."See I told you so, we ARE on the right track and our Programs are working!" YEAH......... The definitive lack of concrete Decision Making is absolutely MISSING from the Obama Administration....too much rhetoric and political posturing and sounding politically correct...BUT....that doesn't GET THE JOB DONE. We should be addressing each challenge in a priority pecking order and seeing that problem address completely and pursuing it aggressively to a FINISH....not Dancing Around multiple problems and challenges with NO real finish in sight! Song, Dance and Rhetori WILL NOT get the job done...Effective and Timely Decision Making and Action WILL. Please copy this message to Ms Pelossi and Mr Reid.
George in Rochester
Doing the right thing is not always the most popular thing. I support this president and wish him (and our country) success in his efforts to turn this country around from 8 years of mis-management.
Instant gratification, lack of reflection and short memory – the not so good American traditions.
Finally, the people of this country are waking up that Obama is not apt for presidency. 11 months - 11 months - and Debts, Wars, Economic problems, Global Warming issues, etc.. etc.. are piling up. Obama is really lucky to be President of United States without much qualification.
Let us have Hillary instead. At least with her, she is who she is and not like Obama that leads with lies just like Bush.
one more thought...
I think those who support MR.Obama may just be those with their hands out and upturned.. waiting for Obama to go into HIS stash for mo money... quoting some woman in line in Chicago "mo money"
Of course, we have the Congress democrats who 'have' to support him cause thats the way the game is played...
Leave our health care alone
Get rid of illegal ALIENS
Stop Cap and Trade because it's based on lies from Al Gore and his cronies
Stop the payoffs and pork
and.. just one more thing... how can you live with what your doing here? This is the greatest country ever.. and it seems as if you, Obama and the masses of ignorant and greedy that worship at your feet, are so far out of touch with reality that when you fall.. I guess you will look surprised... but those of us that are paying attention.. as Americans we will reach down to help other Americans back to their senses.
If we start posting job gains starting next month, his numbers will go up. The one thing some people don't understand is that this President didn't create the problems we face right now, but his job now is to fix it. His approval number are linked to fixing the economy. If he begins to turn around the worst economic failure since the Great Depression, we will see these numbers go up.
I like all of the comments that say this poll was skewed up by CNN to make the President look better.
By the way, the running poll of the President's approval rating which is posted on the FOX News website still has him holding above 50% as of this morning. So, what FOX is too liberal also?
All hyperbole – no substance labels the guy from Chicago!
Some of the comments here are hilarious. As an independent, (college-educated) I can predict the comments from the header for each story.
One thing I don't understand, according to liberals Republicans are old white rich men. They're also old/white ignorant knuckle dragging trogolodytes. So, how did those troglodytes get so rich? Was there gold in the cave dwellings?
Also, according to Republicans, all liberals are sitting on the steps of the government housing waiting for their next welfare check to arrive.
They're also all rich elitist snobs.
Come on folks, we're better than this.
I am an uneducated white guy so maybe the educated could help me understand this poll. Without knowing how many of my uneducated brothers and sisters participated vs. the educated, I need some help figurin'. If his approval dropped 7% and only 4% for educated and 18% for non.......I guess he had had a lot of the uneducated supporting him before. And what about the Non-whites, educated or not.
Can the man make it completely through his first year in office before writing him off as a loser? Let's not forget he's trying to fix 8 years of phuckery, war, greed and corruption.
from the article: "The poll indicates that the biggest drop in approval comes from non college educated white voters," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
Non college educated white voters = Palin base.....
Overall "it's still the economy stupid" as the last great President William Jefferson Clinton said.
I stand corrected, the FOX poll currently says 49.3 approve, 45 disapprove. Okay haters, figure out how to spin that into a majority disapproval.
In 6 more months 34%
If you think president Obama has had chance to put this economy in the state that its in. i say this to you. you are un American for not allowing the democrat process take its course. allow him to do his job and support our PRESIDENT.. Dont be UN American i believe in America..free speech is fine. but respect the Law and Laws of this great nation before YOU wake up and say to yourself its my fault..i didnt do anything but complain..one other thought what are you doing to help this Country when no one is LOOKing ?
Good, it shows that people are starting to realize what a horrible mistake was made last November....funny, I knew it would be from the beginning.
CNN–please post...
Until folks realize that it is the corporate libertarian thieves who outsource your jobs, privatize wealth and socialize risk – the ignorant will continue in their "gimme now" expectations.
Bush had 8 yrs to rape this country with help from deregulated business and Dick "Darth Vader" Cheney's drive to war as a boon to the military industrial complex. Ronald Reagan began the largest war on the middle class by giving the very rich extreme tax breaks and lessing any control we had on their shenanigans in banking, insurance and Wall Street.
Trickle down? Yeah, you KNOW what trickles down... and it sure ain't money, honey.
BTW, as a freelance web developer, my business is picking up at a time of year it typically doesn't. As the jobs scene improves - and it IS - the morons who only live in the moment will change their minds yet again and start to realize that it takes more than 10-11 months to fix what has been broken down over the past 20-30 years!
Get out of the wars, NOW!.
Single-payer healthcare system – FOR PROFIT insurance companies will NEVER do anything that hurts their bottom line.
Obama 2012!
"My company, like so many others, has outsourced our call center to Canada"
Because the roll of the government is to create a favorable environment for job creation. When government creates an unfavorable environment, jobs are lost.
Businesses like low taxes. When taxes go up, businesses go elsewhere. Look at Detroit, California and IL.
We need to create an environment in which businesses based here in America ARE THE MOST PROFITABLE, not the most taxed.
Don't blame private industry because your liberal president hates profit.
Honestly I do not understand these CNN polls. Seems like they come from conservative bases where the likes of Palin get above 60%. Let's face it, President Obama in doing ancredibe job in the midst of adverstity such as the war in Afghanstan. He even scaled back the numb If I understood it well, the generals over there has requested for an additional 40,000 troops but he ended up authorizing for 34,000. He has to make difficult decisions and again, you cannot satisfy everyone. Additionally, he was being vilified for taking too long to send the troops and when he finally does, it becomes a problem as well. So what can he do, he fails to send in reinforcement he will be trouble especially now that they are under pressure to keep the Taliban at bay. Give the man credit where it is due. It is obvious that some people just want to spite him.
Can someone please tell me why Obama is doing a bad job?
First of all, he promised to get troops out of Iraq and direct the US forces t o the real threat which is Bin Laden and what has he just done? He is sending 30000 more troops to Afghanistan and pulling troops out of Iraq.
Second of all, because of Obama, the US has much better relations with their international counterparts.
Third of all, he has been doing all HE can to push healthcare, it is the democrats in the Senate that are holding his plans back.
Fourth of all, since he has become President, GDP has improved.
I do not see why people say he is the worst president when he has actually done so much in less than a year. People just want to look for reasons to hate on Obama and just spew out what they hear from Fox News and Yahoo.com (yes, it has a conservative bias). If people actually kept up with politics and looked into what is really happening, they would see that he has indeed been a very good President so far.
Cleaning up a TRAIN WRECK is not a popular job to have...
The Rush-Beck-Fox-liecans have done a great job of convincing people that Obama is responsible for their misery and the end of the world.
He is a "socialist" from another country, who is trying to kill their Grandma. He is Hitler in ideology, Communist in philosophy and a domestic terrorist. It is Obama who is responsible for the recession and these two insane wars... even Darth Vader Cheney is getting a free pass by the media.
And to those bashing welfare recipients (no I don't get welfare so don't even try it) didn't Corporate America get the largest welfare check in histroy? It's called TARP/Troubled Asset Relief Program or the in the nicer, politically correct terms "Stimulus Funding". I understand that the government (more or less) bought equities in these big companies and gave them money to redistribute (through loans and credit which they did not extend) in order to help stabilize the market.
The truth however is that these companies used greed as a motivation to gamble and give credit to those who didn't deserve it and they took a loss. They got bailed out when they fell on hard times. Wait a minute-isn't that what people do when they fall on hard times...get unemployment compensation when they lose their jobs; food stamps when they cannot afford the escalating food prices and cash assistance to stay afloat?
I'm still with the president. I know many progressives that are not happy with the Afghanistan decision, but will vote BHO again in 2012. The alternative is far too frightening.
Nobody asked me...And I support him & his policies 1000%
His true colors will continue to show; a shameless, hollow, lying fraud. Fooled the majority of foolish Americans into electing him by telling them everything they wanted to hear; now leaves them by the wayside as he continues to push for the special interests of the scummy lobbyists (high profile democrats and trial lawyers) that keep his pockets full.
Americans will slowly begin to feel the repercussions of his lack of knowledge, substance and insight as he ruins healthcare, something he, and that circus that he has assembled with Sebelius and DeParle, have no business or qualifications to be delving into.
Applying economic cost-cutting/management principles to the handling of human life is idiotic, and the sign of someone who has never had to care for or be around seriously ill people.
As bad as you may think the system is now, NO ONE is denied urgent health care, whether they are uninsured, indigent, or even a non-resident of this country; but that's whats in store for the future. HE knows, however, that him and his high profile family will never have to wait 3 months for an urgent MRI when they need it,; but you and I will.
"How about getting government out of the way."
You're right. Having government out of the way worked so well with Wall Street, AIG, Morgan Stanley, etc. and the farsical manner in which they leveraged the subprime mortgage securities to create hollographic profits on their operating statements. Kudos....you're a genius.
There is nothing to approve about this President. This is on the job training for him. He has no idea whatsoever to govern and manage the problems which we are facing today.
Is this supposed to be surprising? The two party system is a scam and people are waking up to this.
Looks like the white uneducated voters have really put there two cents in here!
This is why Sarah Palin seriously could become President in 2012 basically on a default basis.
If Obama's policies on Afghanistan, Iraq, health care, the economy, jobs, and any other major issues do not work out as expected, then an ideologue with the exact same mindset of Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint, and Michele Bachmann could become President IF the Republican Party is successful in purging out its moderates!
This is why it is VERY important that people work hard to make sure that all Palin-endorsed Republican candidates lose in 2010 and 2012. If the GOP ever wins back power with these kind of people in charge of it, then there will be war, more war, and even more war!
Mitch Dworkin
Dallas, Texas
"The poll indicates that the biggest drop in approval comes from non college educated white voters,"
Must be that guy who wrote "I'll keep my guns, keep the Change" shoe polished on the back window of his chevy with an NRA sticker next to it here in texas. Or one of the many white Texans I've spoken to who say they would rather vote for hitler than to vote for Obama. After all they are not educated. Oh well. Life goes on.
terry,va December 4th, 2009 12:52 pm ET
The 48% approval rating must be from welfare cases.
Let's hope you never have to go on welfare. Although it would prrobably do you some good to see how the other side lives.
To Indiana voter,
Please go to the Gallup Daily Poll (today 52% of Americans approve of Obama and 58% approve of his decision on Afgan.) He inherited a mess and you all know that is true.
The Gallup Poll is the one that has a greater cross section of all Americans.
By June 2010 Obama approval rating will jump to 75%
It just kills me how liberals scream about how unfair and meaningless polls are when the results don't show President Obama in a favorable light. Just admit that he wasn't right for the job and that you shouldn't have voted for him.
Best President in modern history. Easily.
Well, they keep sugar coating the unemployment number with revisions to the unemployment numbers without any press conferences on the revision. Too many have been laid off for too long. Some have taken jobs with much lower pay to survive. It's survival out here. Hope they can see this inside the Glass House.
I still APROVE of President Obama....he is doing a fine job.......inspite of......I was not polled.....Oh thats right, I have a cell phone.....as do many of his supporters......so stop jumping on the couch......wingnuts...he will be just fine.
Dominican mama 4 Obama, I believe folks needs to be more responsible for themselves in ALL areas of their lives BUT the government promised to help folks buy cars, buy homes, and now to provide healthcare for them. (I don't include Social Security nor Medicaid/medicare because most of us are taxed for those!) Now you want folks to pursue personal responsibility and look for their own jobs? Not fussing at you but just an observation!
For all of the people who have so much to say about what the president has done wrong, someone please tell me where there have been more "viable" solutions offered.
You say cut taxes on small business and big businesses as well;
- George Bush cut taxes during war time oh about six, seven years ago... How is that working out for your?! Need a job?
You say he spends to much
- No real solutions have been offered for resolving health care for a few decades of course its going to cost! It WILL COST MORE TO DO NOTHING! And what is the harm is putting forth a bill to be debated and amended as needed, isn't that what we do in this country to solve problems not sit on our hands
-Wars cost money and lives you should have been telling Bush to bring our boys home before term two, and you didn't so don't impede this presidents attempt to make the best of an impossible situation
THE MAN HAS DONE MORE TO TOUCH BASES ON ISSUES IN 9 MONTHS THAN MANY DO IN TWO TERMS DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN! This is great because just like in his campaign people thought he would be down and out over controversy, and then time, common sense, and INTELLIGENCE prevailed!
Poor Dems; they just lost two state executive mansions and they're expected to lose big time numbers in the House and Senate in 2010, but they're still saying the polls aren't a true reflection of the great job their POTUS is doing. Dems...look out for that iceberg. Its what's underneath the surface that will sink your President...taxes, war, and health care, none of which is wanted or needed by the American voter.
Right Leaning Independent- What's this about rich folks being the most important people in this country. How is it that they run the economy again??
The truth of the matter is this- The government is the main driver for the economy in this country. Without the government's role we'd be Mexico.
1. Who's the #1 employer in this country? The government- whether it's federal, state or local the government employs more people than anyone industry in this country.
2. Who spends the most money? The government does. They spend more on goods and services than any industry.
3. Welfare and social services- The money that goes to the poorest americans is the baseline for the economy. All that money is spent on food, clothing and other necessities. Welfare dollars create tens of millions of jobs in the private sector. Small businesses and corporations alike benefit from those recieving government handouts. It funds the retirement accounts of the wealthy.
4. Corporate Welfare. You know all those subsidies that go to big business, the defense contracts that benefit hte military industrial complex- yeah those fund the corporations of the great USA.
People are finally waking up after having drunk the kool aid. The only friends Obama has are in the media.
I do not believe in the CNN Polls because I tried several times in different polls to vote and the system would not allow me to vote (during the polling time). I support President Obama!!!!!! He will be President for eight years!!! As for the worst president in history comment- President G. W. Bush, President G.H. Bush, and President Reagan all qualified for this title. President Barack Obama has done more than any modern day president. If anyone thought for a second that one preisdent could fix this Republican-made economy, then they were fooling themselves. President Roosevet nor President Clinton fixed the US economy less than a year. Both received a terrible economy from a Republican.
I stand with President Barack Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thomas
Florida
I dont think Obama is doing "that" bad! He may have had a couple bad decisions, but none catasrophic. Unemployment is not great, but it IS improving. People think we can just leave Afghanistan. THATS CRAZY!! After everything weve done to them. Nothing like giving them reasons to hate us (more). And I wouldnt blame them.
Obamas not great, but he is 1000 times the president Bush was. It just sucks that Bush was given a chance (8 years of em), and Obama can not get one to save his life. Anyways I dont know why im waisting my time, nobody is going to read this unless it has the words John,Kate,or Tiger in it. Prioritize people, troops are dying everyday and you got teevo to record john and kate while watching TMZ dig through someones life. SICK AND PROUD USA #1
I agree with Joanne. Statistics and polls that you read online from mainstream sources (CNN, WSJ, NY Times) are usually in favor of the liberal media that produces them. The media has been controlled by the left for a long time, so I'm guessing these polls are modest to support their agenda.
Only 11 months in office, There still lots of time for a turnaround on the econony, health, and wars. Remenber is been given a hell of a mess to work with.
Education is key in America!!!
Let's see
1. Since taking office the market is over 10,000- how is your 401K?
2. New Home sales are improving
3. The rate of job loss is decreasing
4. Health Care Insurance reform is being seriously considered
5. Focus has been shifted to Afganistan rather than Iraq where the real terrorist are.
6. GM, Ford and Chrysler are still in business. How many jobs were saved.
7. Americas worldwide image and influence is improving
He's doing a bad job because...?
sooooo.
they now disapprove of Obama's job because of the economy, but support sending 300,000 more troops (at the cost of 2 million per troop per year.... how many jobs would that buy at home?).
another well thought out point of view from "white non-college educated americans"
AKA the same people who voted against their own interests to give us 8 years of Bush.
Don't get me wrong, I'm very critical of the President. But I like to critique using things like logic.
Mr. President you are doing a great job! and most American people have your back! keep on creating jobs and the nay sayers will have nothing to say!
sorry, its more like 1 million per soldier per year. we're still talking a third of what the health care bill costs over a decade being spent in a year, in addition to what we're already spending there in Iraq.
His justification should only be to win and have a positive result. It is easy to see his heart is not in this and one way or another the dems will do all they can so we will fail. Our eunech president is more in to appologizing for America than seeing to it that we succeed.
Lets let the republicants have their little fun today.......Obama has and will continue to make the repug leadership and their followers look like uneducated fools......to think some of their representatives have been around for a long time.....yet the President makes them look like they just started yesterday......makes you wonder.....I never believed the hype.
I read the other day that the Department of Defense is phasing out 15,000 independent contractors next year who will be replaced by.......................union workers
People are tired of his paybacks to the unions, SEIU gave him 30 million, is that how money it takes to buy the presidency?
HA HA HA.
One and done!!!
2012 can't get here quick enough
So people are upset that President Obama had not been able to straighten out the mess left from the last administration in a mere 11 months? No one could fix the mess he inherited so quickly. To sum up the president's challenges when he took office: America was involved in 2 wars which turned a massive surplus into a massive deficit, unemployment was at near record highs due to the longest and most widespread economic downturn since the Great Depression, and the financial markets were collapsing under the weight of bad loans. No person with a shred of common sense could expect all of these problems to be solved in less than a year. As the economy recovers jobs will eventually be created, the financial markets will begin lending again, and the Iraq war will begin to wind down next year thereby reducing deficit spending. All in all things are proceeding at a faster pace than most of us should have expected.
Americans do not support Presidents who have disdain for their own country.
When President Obama reaches the same level of approval as the republican party of 20%, then he should worry.
Until then, it is all good.
No prior President has had to clean up the mess President Obama has and on several different fronts, so of course, he will not please all of the people all the time, but as we get more proof that his "porkulus" bill is now bringing home the "bacon", by 2012, he will have the approval of most of the people!
According to Rasmussen, it's 46%, with 40% strongly disapproving.
- Whoop-dee-doo. Rasmussen, aka the FOX News of polling operations. If he skewed his samples any more to the right, they'd fall over.
The problem with Obama is that he is not Reagan or Clinton....He's Carter.
- We'll see about that. In the meantime, I'll bet you conservatives were crushed by the positive employment news that came out today. You've all made it clear you'd rather see this country crash and burn than to lift a finger to fix the mess you all created.
73% disapprove of government run single payer health care...if anyone cares to know.
- And 60+% support the public option, which is what's actually being proposed.
When all the right-wingers here are done shouting "We're goin' to Disneyland!" even though it's effectively the end of the 1st Qtr, they might want to look at the GOP's approval ratings (about 25%) and today's Gallup poll, which has Obama's approval rating at 51% (+2), a number that will probably only get better in days to come. Might want to tone down those victory dances just a bit. On second thought, given most conservatives' willful denial of reality, what's the point?
I am very disappointed in Obama; sending troops is a wrong decision.
He is not showing leadership; trying to please both sites.
Gallop Daily has his approval at 52%...showa one how you should not rely on polls.
As President Obama said, he campaigned to get the tough things done and not pass on to the next President (as Bushie did) and not just the easy stuff.
He isn't thinking of a 2nd term in his decisions but rather what is best for America no matter what the political cost may be....
I support him and I am a registered Republican!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama has done exactly what he said he would do on the campaign trail, now these so-call Obama backers are turn coats? That is just like a Democrate and those Independents.
Republicans are known to not put their tails between their legs and run for cover...even if they have to lie! They stuck it out with Bush and never bash him. But these Dems are pitifil!! Dems can't agree on anything and that is way they will lose the presidency next term.
Get a back bone Dems and stick together!!!
this adminstration is like christmas lightes,,, all they do is hang around , half dont work and the other half arent very bright...
I'm a college educated white guy, and I strongly support our new President Barack Hussein Obama.
He is intelligent, thoughtful, and cares about the little people.
Don't know which of the group of Obstructionist Republicans is tryin to cause the most trouble, but we're voting THEM out asap.
Give me a break. This man has been in office for all of 10 months.
He is supposed to clean up a mess that was 10yrs in the making.
Where was the public's impatience while all of this was going on
during those 8 years.
...as long as it's the smart 50% who cares!
This man runs circles around the former Republican administration of "Brain-Dead" and "Psychopath".
He makes Newt Gingrich look like the quack he is. And he makes virtually every Republican today look like snake-oil salesmen.
If anyone can get America through the tar-pit Bush-Cheney got us into it's President Obama! Go-bama Go!
It does not matter at all. He will be the President for the next three years, approve/disapprove. So Poll away until then!
He is a centrist so he own't make the tea-baggers happy (plus he's black) and he won't make the liberals happy.
And after trying to deal with all the horrible crap dropped in his lap from the nightmare of EIGHT years of Bush/Cheney and republican majorities he should be very happy with 48%.
Just think what a mess it would be if the McCain/Palin were in office?
Of course she would have quit by now.
Only the simple minded Fox followers who claim Obama is the Messiah would think he could turn all this around in 11 months.
He's on the right path and now is the US is to.
If someone from the left or a democrat would care to list his achievements so far it would be helpful. He passed a ridiculous stimulus that doesn't work. His press secretary keeps saying it does but people in his own cabinet are now finally admitting that the numbers are false. The economy is a mess. Bush is to blame but the biggest collapse also happened under a democratic run congress. Obama's problem is he is ignoring the economy and pushing a social agenda. If he focused on actually accomplishing something for the economy he would have better approval numbers. "It's the economy stupid". Not health care, not the climate. If he doesn't turn it around soon, he won't get re elected.
So what are you saying – he needs to worry about this? I don't think so. Things are bad in this Country right now, through no fault ofhis, but who else do people want to blame but the President. He will shoulder the blame, he expects it. Once things turn around, and they will, the poll numbers will go up. The guy hasn't been in office yet for a year – January 20, 2010 will be one year. It took Bush/Cheney 8 years to destroy this country. What do people expect – miracles??
I noticed that you only included the percentages of uneducated vs. educated whites in your poll and it was implied that the non-college graduates were responsible for the poll drop. I didn't see an reference as to what the African-American percentage was or the divide of educated/uneducated. Was this an inadvertent omission or just not relevant?
I agree: if a golden parachute is the difference between black and red ink, then the golden parachute oughta go. Nice of those AIG execs to donate a few hundred million to fight our growing debt, heh.
Reagn was at 42% by the time the '82 midterm elections rolled around and he carried 49 states in '84. This poll means nothing.
A little gaffe here, a little gaffe there, soon it adds up to real trouble. People have come to the realization that President Obama is not the miracle man who can walk on water. 2012 will be a real test.
Wow, now that's an achievment. It took Bush almost 3.5 years to get that low, and we thought he was a moron. At this rate Obamination be at zero by next Christmas.
Lacrosse Mom?
Dutch?
Ed in Santa Fe?
Beverly in NYC?
Where are you guys? Hello? Anyone?
The CNN poll has Obama's numbers down this week. Other polls have had him below 50 for a couple months.
I've recently taken a "pro Obama" poll (not by CNN). Most questions were tainted to show Obama in a better light. (a question might read: The greed of Wall Street and banking institutions has caused millions to lose their jobs, would you support an Obama policy that would increase US jobs by 25%). Hmmm, can we really trust a CNN poll?
If we were to cast votes again between Obama and any other so-called prominent repub, Obama would win again with his current rating. repubs spend so much time criticizng than tryign to collectively join forces to find solutions to help America.
To: "Republicans Rejected" and all the other fer left wing nuts that are still reveling in the Obama's win.
OK you won, you get to "drive the bus". Now the first thing you do is put the key in the ignition and adjust your mirrors. Second you turn the key to start the motor, the gas is on the right and brake is to the left. Third and most important you have to know where you're going to get anywhere.
The big problem is you got it cranked and have your foot floored on the gas, but aren't going anywhere. You're still in George Bush's parking spot singing gleefully! How about figuring out what the trip tik is supposed to be for the 3 remaining years so the rest of us can get somewhere other than this dank and dark place you have us stuck in now. I'm more than happy to suggest some locations and directions on how to get there if you'll just shut up long enough to listen.
48% rating of approval does not come from Iowa.
24% rating is quite close.
Run a fair and reliable poll rateing here and you will see.
Hope he sees the light before we crash and burn.
Hope and pray our President soon starts with common sense and
his support of the troops on the ground is good if we are to
stay there. He is finding out it is easier to entertain in the white house
than it is to run a war. And we did not elect him for his ability to entertain. I hope the best for Obama
It amazes me how childish some of these responses sound. I endured the past 8 years of Bush without posting one single derogatory remark and look at the mess he got us into. Did anyone honestly expect Obama to turn that mess around in just one year???