How low can President Obama’s approval rating go? Pretty low, it appears.
The president’s approval rating reached a new all-time low, according to a national Quinnipiac survey released today.
The survey finds that just 44 percent of registered voters approve of the job he has done as president — his worst score ever — with 48 percent disapproving.
“It was a year ago, during the summer of 2009, that America’s love affair with President Barack Obama began to wane. In July of 2009, the president had a 57 to 33 percent approval rating,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
Obama has made some very unpopular decisions over the past year, including passage of the healthcare reform package that many polls found most Americans did not favor, policies that have not revived a bad economy and a delayed response to the oil spill that has ravaged the Gulf of Mexico in recent months.
For example, 56 percent of voters disapprove of Obama’s handling of the economy, 51 percent disapprove of his response to the BP oil spill and 58 percent disapprove of the way he has gone about dealing with illegal immigration, including a whopping 60 percent who said the feds’ lawsuit against Arizona was a bad move.
But Brown said Obama has time to improve his numbers before running for re-election in two years.
“In politics a month is a lifetime and we have 28 months until November of 2012,” he said.
The survey of 2,181 registered voters was conducted July 13 to 19 and has a margin of error of two percentage points.
(Source: NY Post)
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I hoped not to live to see Carter II.
hooray! that’s the best news iv’e heard all week!
Well, it can go so much lower. This is good news for Obama. He still has 44 percent approving his socialist agenda. I wonder where they got all of those people approving, because everyone I know, that has a job, can’t seem to justify his anti-job agenda.
I think this president should be used to portray the democrats and the liberal agenda bad for the middle-class . Besides struggling in this economy that he couldn’t boost despite almost 4 trillion dollars(!) in spending, we will now have additional taxes. Whether it is a bank fee for everything we do or paying for the healthcare penalty (or less wages because of that), it is us middle-class that stay to suffer.
Carter revisited. You go Obama. Actually this is the sequel known as “Welcome Back Carter II.”
He hasn’t hit rock bottom…he can go lower. He will, unless he manipulates a massive crisis, like a nice, old-fashioned war. (Afghanistan doesn’t count.)
As for being unpopular, he doesn’t care. Did Lenin? Idi Amin? Franco? Like all dictators, he only cares about keeping his power. What I’m afraid of is that he’ll circumvent the Constitution to be “President for Life.” Don’t think it can’t happen.
How does he have 44%?
in pubic school system we took pride in trying to be the worst school when we had “visitors” during an assembly, lets show obama this same type of gratitude… i hope the american people all start to relentlessly bash him the same way we did back then
#1 Careful what you wish for…
I think President Bush would’ve killed for a 44% approval rating.
Why bother with approval ratings which are probably wrong anyway?
This is old news. Fact is: Obama stinks. The cow is out of the barn, proving that a president, graduated with honors from Harvard University, can be very stupid. Bush, also stupid, on the other hand, was devious and had a plan which he succeeded at.
perhaps it will go as low as Bush, but he’s still got quite a way for that
The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.
8 & 10,
You are forgetting that for most of the Bush presidency, he had decent ratings. They really dipped when the socialists gained power in 1997.