Obama Approval Rating: President's Numbers Drop 7 Points, Poll Shows

[jonjon]

Obama Approval Rating: President's Numbers Drop 7 Points, Poll Shows

Reuters  |  Posted: 03/06/2013 12:59 am EST  |  Updated: 03/06/2013 8:19 am EST

 

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - Less than two months into his second term, President Barack Obama's approval rating has dropped and Americans blame him and his fellow Democrats almost as much as his Republican opponents for a fiscal mess.

A Reuters/Ipsos online poll released on Wednesday showed 43 percent of people approve of Obama's handling of his job, down 7 percentage points from Feb. 19.

Most of that steep drop came in the week to Feb. 26 when it was becoming clear that Washington was going to be unable to put aside partisan differences and agree to halt automatic budget cuts which started last Friday.

Confounding the White House's efforts to blame Republicans for the cuts, most respondents in the online survey hold both Democrats and Republicans responsible.

Obama shot out of the gate in January at the start of his second four years in the White House, promising gun control and immigration legislation as well as efforts to tackle climate change and expand *** rights.

But Ipsos pollster Julia Clark said the survey shows Obama's honeymoon is now over, partly due to the "sequestration" cuts which will likely curtail public services like air traffic control and national parks as well as funding for the Pentagon.

"People are seeing things are back to business as usual in Washington," she said. "They are reading about the immense fallout this is going to have in terms of how it's going to affect the military and individuals."

Thirty-eight percent of Americans believe all the political actors involved - Republican and Democratic members of Congress along with Obama - deserve most of the blame for the cuts.

Twenty-seven percent think Republicans in Congress are responsible, 17 percent blamed Obama and 6 percent thought Democrats were to blame. Nearly half of independent voters, 49 percent, said both sides deserve the blame.

"I think this frustration is being reflected certainly in their view of the president and Congress as well. This is a pox on everyone's house really," Clark said.

The fall in Obama's rating was similar to that in the Gallup three-day average tracking poll which shows his approval dropping 7 percentage points from late February to last weekend before recovering slightly.

WHITE HOUSE DEFENSIVE

That survey put the White House on the defensive on Tuesday. Spokesman Jay Carney cautioned that the result should not detract from Obama's efforts to fix thorny tax and spending issues after a convincing election defeat of Republican candidate Mitt Romney last November.

"Before we say anything is clear based on one poll, could we just remember, just think back a few months to the summer and fall of 2012, and understand that we're here focused on the president's agenda, getting the work done that we think is most beneficial to the middle class," he told a briefing.

Obama is now facing questions over whether he and fellow Democrats miscalculated the budget showdown and especially their messaging strategy of making frequent graphic warnings that public services were about to be decimated by cuts.

The strategy seemed aimed at having the public put pressure on Republican lawmakers to cede to White House demands to include tax increases as part of a solution to halt sequestration.

But tax hikes were always going to be a tough sell to Republicans, said William Galston, a Brookings Institution senior fellow who was a domestic policy adviser to President Bill Clinton

"Opposition to taxes is about the only thing holding the current Republican Party together," Galston said. "I can't imagine any Republican leader proposing a new deficit reduction package including tax increases and holding onto his job for very long."

While the budget battle are complex, the Reuters/Ipsos poll showed many Americans are paying attention. The poll found 35 percent of those surveyed are paying a little bit of attention to the fight, 27 percent a fair amount and 9 percent a great deal. More than a quarter, 28 percent, knew nothing at all about it.

In the poll, 1,797 adults were interviewed between March 1-5.

The precision of the Reuters/Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points. (Editing by Alistair Bell and Eric Walsh)

[parmenio]

Just the beginning ..., this guy has lied so much even some on the left are starting to wake up! 

Edited March 6, 2013 by parmenio

[Farwould]

The republican fecal mess  

-7 pretty good round of golf today!

swats the republican ball "its a slice"

 

O hollers~~~~~~FOUR !!!!

 

whoops hits Blamer in the back of the head

dang it still didnt knock any since into him!

at least it woke him up!

[bigwave]

I wonder what his ratings would be if the nooz reported that he is using sombody's else SSN and has forged ID's.

 

This is kind of like a SOAP - Day's of Our Lies.

 

Come on RV

[pchester]

Everyone who voted for Obama is getting what they desevre and it ain't over yet...

[darwinatridge]

Everyone keeps saying that Congress is the problem but they ignore the fact that Congress has two sides. House and Senate. One side controlled by the Republicans and the other controlled by the Democrats. While equally enept Obama's eneptness definatly tips the scale of eneptatude towards the Democrats. But you will not here that from the liberally controlled media.

Edited March 6, 2013 by darwinatridge

[Farwould]

Its a redacted name for his own protection.

yeah thats the ticket! LIFELOCK!

Most use them these days of our lives!

EVERYONE is getting it!

wow I tore my tin foil hat

[LIBoy]

He better start pissing off a lot more people if he aspires to beat W's 25% rating. People in glass houses.....JUST SAYIN'

 

The most unpopular president in modern history.

By Amanda Terkel on May 1, 2008 at 2:46 pm

A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll finds that 71 percent of the American public disapproves of the job President Bush is doing:

Public support for the Iraq war has also dropped to 30 percent, an all-time low.

“No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president’s disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark,” said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

“Bush’s approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll, remains better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon (22 percent and 24 percent, respectively) but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s,” Holland added. “The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by Truman, 67 percent disapproval in January 1952.”

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• George W. Bush

Edited March 6, 2013 by LIBoy

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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Leave it to the illuminati's tool - Reuters - to miss most of the points re: this tool's epic failure.

 

It's not just about the money, Reuters, although we realise THAT's the most important thing to your

Slave Masters who own you.....

 

the dictator in Our White House has failed US on every single thing he has touched.

 

not anything he has done has been honourable.

 

He is hated, reviled, scorned, with perfect reason and deserves every bit of it. 

 

even when addressing Our Troops, - which he hates -  he is malicious and condescending.

 

the current popularity rating he enjoys will plunge..... he is destroying the Greatest Republic in the World.

[Jmasters]

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Leave it to the illuminati's tool - Reuters - to miss most of the points re: this tool's epic failure.

 

It's not just about the money, Reuters, although we realise THAT's the most important thing to your

Slave Masters who own you.....

 

the dictator in Our White House has failed US on every single thing he has touched.

 

not anything he has done has been honourable.

 

He is hated, reviled, scorned, with perfect reason and deserves every bit of it. 

 

even when addressing Our Troops, - which he hates -  he is malicious and condescending.

 

the current popularity rating he enjoys will plunge..... he is destroying the Greatest Republic in the World.

True and many valid points. However, does it really matter what his poll ratings are anymore? Bottom line is everyone is sitting on their duffs and letting him have the run of the romper room.. Let those who were stupid enough to re - elect him get a good dose of humbling.Maybe, just maybe next time around , they will think before they vote.However, I highly doubt it , because stupid is as stupid does.

Just the beginning ..., this guy has lied so much even some on the left are starting to wake up! 

While that is a good notion,I don't think Zombies have a cure.

[Sparta]

The people should be advised to quit these heated arguments.  That is what they want us to do.  This heat, .. that which divides the people, .. plays right into the hands of evil and gives them kindling to crank up "the furnaces."  I do not trust any of them ...  certainly not Reuters, owned by the cabal.  Our problems go way beyond the D.C. and Wall Street sh**-holes ...  look across the pond.  That is where the evil is rooted.

[dinar fellow]

his point could drop by 50 but itz nothing we can do about it he is our president and i love it....THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN .....GET OVER IT........ITZ NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT....OKAY....OK

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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Oh, but WE ARE doing something about it....

 

we are exercising our right to speak out about how he has failed the American People !

 

And will continue to do so until every single American must ask themselves if they prefer

to be enslaved under this dictatorial tool of oppression, or be Free as God intended.

 

Even now they are waking up.... they ARE doing something about it, believe it!

 

They are beginning to see that he is NOT honourable,

that he is NOT what he representated himself to be.

 

The people do NOT like to be fooled, nor used.

 

They are Americans....

they will strike down injustice and abuse of power by their employee as they see fit.

 

The tool is NOT immune TO THEIR SCRUTINY

and MUST BE HELD TO A HIGHER STANDARD.

[Linda]

uhhh...I think someone miscounted here...status quo, miscount is not unusual in this arena...

[KiaKaha]

Let those who were stupid enough to re - elect him get a good dose of humbling.

 

 

 

I certainly didn't vote for him either time... but I'm getting a good dose of humbling, too. I don't like that AT ALL. If I've gotta be humbled, I want it by MY actions, not some mindless, undereducated morons with their hands out... nor the other libs who thought they were doing the right thing. 

 

KK

MADD for Heather

[hbrill61]

his point could drop by 50 but itz nothing we can do about it he is our president and i love it....THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN .....GET OVER IT........ITZ NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT....OKAY....OK

 

Hey,I'm sure Obama has probably got some remedial writing courses he's passing out at no cost to you...ITZ SOMETHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT...OKAY...OK...PUTZ !

[Jmasters]

his point could drop by 50 but itz nothing we can do about it he is our president and i love it....THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN .....GET OVER IT........ITZ NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT IT....OKAY....OK

 

Hey,I'm sure Obama has probably got some remedial writing courses he's passing out at no cost to you...ITZ SOMETHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT...OKAY...OK...PUTZ !

either that or some hooked on phonics may be of some help.Furthermore, He is NOT my President and never will be so chew on that one there fella.Not with standing , there are things going on behind the scenes just to do just something about him, time will tell how it all plays out.

 

 

I certainly didn't vote for him either time... but I'm getting a good dose of humbling, too. I don't like that AT ALL. If I've gotta be humbled, I want it by MY actions, not some mindless, undereducated morons with their hands out... nor the other libs who thought they were doing the right thing. 

 

KK

MADD for Heather

I understand your point very well KK.I didn't vote for him and was floored to see him get a second term.I am hope full however that a grassroots movement is going on that will make this country greater than it used to be , before he was elected.I have no doubt he will go down in history as the WORST Potus in the history of the country.

[HYDRANT]

he trying to wine and dine the rep.wens night----he is a sly fox---but you know what happens when you get caught in the hen house--------------------you can fill in the blanks

[yota691]

He better start pissing off a lot more people if he aspires to beat W's 25% rating. People in glass houses.....JUST SAYIN'

 

The most unpopular president in modern history.

By Amanda Terkel on May 1, 2008 at 2:46 pm

A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll finds that 71 percent of the American public disapproves of the job President Bush is doing:

Public support for the Iraq war has also dropped to 30 percent, an all-time low.

“No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president’s disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark,” said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

“Bush’s approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll, remains better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon (22 percent and 24 percent, respectively) but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s,” Holland added. “The previous all-time record in CNN or Gallup polling was set by Truman, 67 percent disapproval in January 1952.”

Tags:

• George W. Bush

Typical Response..always change the subjects. demeanor somebody else...Can You FOLKS ever stay on the Subject... 

[Man_Kind]

Numbers Drop !

 

I know I would l like to drop number two on his head.

[Biker]

Sgtfuzy is right on the money, This Turd needs to be flushed and quick befor theres nothing left of Our Great Nation. But thats his intension Disolve the USA from the inside out, the Brotherhood way.

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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The sooner, the better BIKER...!   He IS a turd needin' flushin'.....

 

and he DOES follow the agenda of his radical muslim religion and IS the

TOOL of TPTB who all share in the dream of destroying US.

 

Enslave and use the minorities and kill the whites.  Typical PTB MISSION the world-over...!

They have done this all over the world - look at the mess they've made on the entire African Continent!

Which is their latest playground..!

 

Look at their radical muslim stronghold in South America (not far from the Bush Compound BTW)... where they gather by the thousands to receive their falsified documents to come to the U.S. of A.

 

You think we're kidding...?  THAT's your great political messiah you ignorant masses - REALLY LOOK AT HIM AND WHAT HE IS DOING!

Again ---Why do you think he won't crack down on illegals?

He's afraid they'll catch HIS sleeper cells he's bringing in!

 

They see Our Republic as their own little playground.

 

 

 

WISE UP.

[LIBoy]

Typical Response..always change the subjects. demeanor somebody else...Can You FOLKS ever stay on the Subject... 

Actually, it's right on subject.  I'm pointing out the fact that as unpoular as Obama is with the folks on this site, we have to remember that it is still an improvement from the poularity that George W. Bush had while he was in office.

I'm sorry if the article bothers you but is an historical fact. Not just random rhetoric.

 

The truth of the matter is that Republicans are in the exact same situation Democrats were during the second term of Bush's administration.  Back when the Dems were calling Bush "KIng George" for many of the same reasons.  (The President exercising or trying to exercise rights that many people felt he did not have the right to do.)

People love to spew how Obama is taking away our freedoms, and Obama wants to kill us and Obama this and Obama that.  The US power structure is set up so that any "President" has very little power to make any major changes on his own without the backing of the Senate and Congress.  President Obama can not declare war on the US as much as all you folks want people to believe he can.

Look at the polls.  Look at each state.  The majority of people in MOST states want stricter gun control.  The politicians, who we voted into office, are responding to that. That is what they are supposed to do. 

President Obama is helping out a segment of this population that, as Mitt Romney was caught saying, most presidents have not been concerned or worried about for a very long time, if ever.

I hate all types of socialist ideals, and I am, in fact, a registered republican who voted for Romney.  I also don't care for the direction Obama is taking this country and the way he makes it easier for the "have nots" to get things for free that my tax dollars pay for. That pisses me off, just look at the quote on my home page.

However, the bottom line is that most of the rhetoric being thrown around by obama haters is baseless, factless junk that has no substance.  The president does not have the power to do the things people are accusing him of, plain and simple.  To not like or even hate the president is everyone's God given right. However, to think that he is trying to take away all our rights and kill us?!?!  That's just a big bowl of crazy and I don't know how logical, educated people could even entertain such a notion.

In three years Obama will be ending his time as President.  Most likely a republican will be given the job next and then it will be the Democrats turn to vilify and deamonize the president while all the right wing supporters tell them how crazy they are.

Down the road, whatever gun changes are made in the near future will be reversed and all will be right with the world.  It's an ebb and flow, a give and take.  It's the way the world has always been and it's the way the world will continue to be for years and years and years to come.

 

Unless we all get nuked tomorrow by North Korea.

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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LIBOY --- once again you are behind.... Wayyyyyyyy behind.

 

NOT ABOUT BUSH AS PRES..... It's about all of the TOOLS of TPTB - including the Bushes & obummer-tool, too.

 

Read what we posted -- educate yourself on TPTB stronghold in the West. (S.America)

 

Look up:  BUSH / URUGUAY.....  knowledge, boy, knowledge.

 

Stop posting ignorant and get up to speed!  We've given you the basics -- NOW DO WORK.

 

You're beating a dead horse with that Bush -vs- obummer krap.

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..and one more thing, that bush -vs-obummer mindset you're in is exactly how they want you thinking.

 

  It is how they divide in order to conquer you. 

 

You are still letting them enslave you through this.... stop them.  Get wise.

[Bunk]

Who ever want's higher taxes is a fool or a hypocrite ..

 

Li(e)boy,a Republican ???