41% Approve: New Gallup Poll Has Barack Obama Return To His Previous Low

by Colby Hall | 2:45 pm, April 15th, 2011

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According to a new Gallup poll released today, President Obama‘s approval rating has returned to a 41% approval ratings, the lowest level at which he’s ever polled, the last time coming around November of of 2010 around the mid-term elections. Perhaps most concerning to the White House reelection efforts is that his approval rating is down most among likely independent voters, with 35% of independents approving of the job Obama has done, nine points lower than where that figure has been earlier in the year.

Writing for Gallup, Jeffrey Jones reports:

The current 41% approval rating from April 12-14 polling includes interviews conducted before and after Obama announced his plan for deficit reduction on Wednesday. It also comes in the same week Congress is voting on the 2011 budget deal reached last Friday. The deal did not seem to have an immediate effect on the way Americans viewed Obama, given his 44% approval rating in the three days prior to the agreement and his 46% rating in the initial days after the agreement.

The economy is likely also a factor in Obama’s declining ratings. Though unemployment is improving according to government estimates, the economic recovery remains slow and is being challenged by rising fuel prices. Presidents’ approval ratings have historically suffered in times of high gas prices.

The current three-day average finds 50% of Americans disapproving of Obama, two percentage points below his high disapproval rating of 52% from Aug. 15-17 and Aug. 16-18, 2010, polling.

Obama’s approval rating has averaged 48% thus far in 2011, including a slightly higher 50% average during the last two weeks in January.

Read the entire write up at Gallup.com.

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Anne 1

Tee Hee.
BadGenome

Ah. That explains that fake “OMG MY MIC WAS ON TEH WHOAL TIME???” shit earlier. When presidents are underwater in the polls, they get bitter and cling to their health care laws.
lane

All that spending and debt, little to show for it, and inflation is really creeping up. I expect some serious Obama administration changes are coming….
More Liberty5

No worry. Some idiot neocon will take the helm and continue the rape of the US Constitution.
http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

Wow,
all that birther talk is really helping him////////////////////////
BadGenome

Lou Sarah said:
49% in the latest Rasmussen poll… A 3 month high… I’m assuming Mediate will have a companion piece to follow this one? Or do you only report on the media reporting on bad polls for Obama?

Why should they? Rasmussen is a known Republican hack. Now, scuttle along back to the Drudge Report, you repuke!
MrTPar_taY

WTF happened to ‘Hope® and ‘Change®? LMFAO! heheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh
BadGenome

Lou Sarah said:
I agree, Rasmussen walks around with Roger Ailes jizz on his chin, but if Obama’s at 49% there, it must actually be 54-55% when you factor in the bias…. but that’s not my point (I’m not the least bit worried about Obama’s 2012 reelection), my point is why does Mediaite only write about negative polls for Obama? I don’t believe I’ve ever seen them write about a new “high” in a poll before? Please prove me wrong Mediaite staff.

Well, that’s probably because he hasn’t had a new high. It’s been all downhill since inauguration day. But here’s one from a few months ago talking about his “soaring approval ratings”, so dry your tears, little baby.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/nbc-news-marks-obamas-first-two-years-in-office-with-soaring-approval-ratings/
Yoda002

I bet once this Birther party gets going in full swing Obama’s numbers will shoot back up.
Eruptor75

Lou Sarah said:
I agree, Rasmussen walks around with Roger Ailes jizz on his chin

Republicans aren’t fags, only democrats are fags. So it is you, in fact, who more likely to walk around with “jizz ” on his chin. I mean, how many gays do you blow, I mean know, who vote Republican. None. So if a person has an affinity for jizz, they are probably a liberal. Sound,logical, deductive reasoning at work here.
Raygun

If you trust Rasmussen, you should logically also trust Daily Kos/SEIU polls.

In any case Gallup polls fluctuate wildly and inconsistently all the time. Make for nice traffic bait for blogs though.
My Horse his Name is Mack

Lou Sarah said:
49% in the latest Rasmussen poll… A 3 month high… I’m assuming Mediate will have a companion piece to follow this one? Or do you only report on the media reporting on bad polls for Obama?

Holy shit, a liberal referencing Rasmussen. Hell hath frozen over!
Arkansas Steve

KEEP THIS IN MIND:

There are at least 20% of Americans ….. rephrase
There are at least 20% of people living in America who will say “approve” to ANY question about Obama.
This means only 1 in 5 people actually LIKE the way Obama is ruining our country. And this little group is dominated by selfish, self-centered, give me, people, who dominate the Democratic party.
X-3

Arkansas Steve said:
KEEP THIS IN MIND: There are at least 20% of Americans ….. rephraseThere are at least 20% of people living in America who will say “approve” to ANY question about Obama.This means only 1 in 5 people actually LIKE the way Obama is ruining our country. And this little group is dominated by selfish, self-centered, give me, people, who dominate the Democratic party.

I like it.

41%…and falling.
WildMan

Won’t be long before he is in the 30′s and soon after in the 20′s. Many are now saying Obama is the worst Pres. in American history. Maybe, maybe not. There is Jimmy Carter, lest we forget. Both of these clowns are at the bottom when it comes to being in over their head.
DFW

These polls also say Trump leads the Republican pack. Trump, though he may be expert in divorce and bankruptcy, has about as much chance of being the Republican nominee as Sarah Palin has of being invited to join MENSA. Why should anyone get fired up about these polls a year and a half before the next election? Obama’s biggest worries should be voter ignorance (just witness the many comments here by so-called “conservatives”) and the fact that 40% of American voters will blindly vote the Republican ticket even if it consists of Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny.
Barack Must Go

DFW said:
These polls also say Trump leads the Republican pack. Trump, though he may be expert in divorce and bankruptcy, has about as much chance of being the Republican nominee as Sarah Palin has of being invited to join MENSA. Why should anyone get fired up about these polls a year and a half before the next election? Obama’s biggest worries should be voter ignorance (just witness the many comments here by so-called “conservatives”) and the fact that 40% of American voters will blindly vote the Republican ticket even if it consists of Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny.

Or of Barack Obama being a liberal born in the United States of America, let alone a ” real ” American.Or 95% of blacks supposedly voted for Barack simply because he’s also black…….so what’s your point really?
Jackpot777

Lou Sarah said:
I agree, Rasmussen walks around with Roger Ailes jizz on his chin, but if Obama’s at 49% there, it must actually be 54-55% when you factor in the bias…. but that’s not my point (I’m not the least bit worried about Obama’s 2012 reelection), my point is why does Mediaite only write about negative polls for Obama? I don’t believe I’ve ever seen them write about a new “high” in a poll before? Please prove me wrong Mediaite staff.

Why must you tell us of your homosexual fantasies? You should save that for recess or the locker room.
MrTPar_taY

Everything this guy touches is a failure. Hope and Change in Libya is as useless as his mortgage bailout program.
X-3

MrTPar_taY said:
Everything this guy touches is a failure. Hope and Change in Libya is as useless as his mortgage bailout program.

Don’t forget “cash for clunkers” which cost the US taxpayer $24K for every car sold and Chu’s solution to the energy crisis–painting our roofs white. NEVER have there been a greater number of total fools running an administration–and RUINING what’s left of the US.
lane

Lou Sarah said:
but that’s not my point (I’m not the least bit worried about Obama’s 2012 reelection), my point is why does Mediaite only write about negative polls for Obama? I don’t believe I’ve ever seen them write about a new “high” in a poll before? Please prove me wrong Mediaite staff.

Don’t shoot the messenger on the polls.