. . . . . . underscoring the American public's very stable [but low ~ blog editor] rating of Obama in 2014 is the fact that his weekly averages at the extremes of the 2014 range -- 40% and 45% -- were the most rarely measured. His average approval rating was 45% for only two weeks this year, and he received an average 40% job approval in only five weeks. His most frequently occurring weekly averages were 42% and 43%, right around his overall yearly average through mid-December 2014 of 42%. In short, we have a portrait this year of a public whose evaluation of the president has become immune to substantial ups and downs -- a public whose opinions of the president have settled into a pretty stable low-40% range.
http://www.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/180266/obama-approval-settles-narrow-range-2014.aspx
A recent Gallup poll shows Obama with a 43 percent December approval rating at the end of his sixth year in office. This puts him ahead of former President George W. Bush, who saw a 37 percent approval rating at the end of his sixth year in 2006.
ReplyDeleteThe poll, published Dec. 19, also shows that former presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan enjoyed 67 percent and 48 percent approval ratings at the same point in their tenures, respectively. Obama matches Reagan's 48 percent in both Rasmussen and CNN polls. Obama is finally getting the credit he deserves for turning the economy around from the the disastrous Bush years, and doing sooner than experts expected.
Soooo, you think 42% (not 43, btw) is good? You measure Obama against Bush's popularity? Interesting. It might surprise you to learn that Bush polled at 47% in Gallup, just before his 51% victory in 2004. Only 3/10ths of a percent separtated Bush's victory from Obama's . . . . I would argue, therefore, that Bush was as popular at Obama, despite the Left Wing nutjob polling results.
DeleteWhen Wall Street was struggling, Republicans told the nation to blame President Obama's "radical socialist agenda." With the market now above 18,000, he must be pretty bad at being a socialist.
ReplyDeleteYou have no idea why the Street is doing as well as it is, do you. Name me one policy/initiative that is original with Obama -- other than quantitative easing -- that has contributed to W.S. money making successes for the top 1% in terms of cause and effect.
DeleteYou like quoting Gallup, here's one for you:
ReplyDeleteHillary Clinton is most admired woman in America for 17th time in 18 years.
Barack Obama is most admired man in America for 7th year in a row, Pope Francis #2, Bill Clinton #3.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/180365/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-extend-run-admired.aspx
Of course they are. That explains why their party got slammed in the past two midterms and watched 4 million votes move away from Obama in the 2012 election. The only polls that count are the election polls, but since Democrats don't recognized any election cycle that does not support their Utopian causes, how would you know?
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