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Monday, October 26, 2009

Obama’s Approval Plummets

It seems that PresBo’s approval ratings in the first and second quarters of his Presidency were among the best of Presidents in recent history. However, during the third-quarter his approval ratings plummeted, leaving the numbers near the bottom when compared to other presidents at the same point in their terms.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Devastating-numbers-in-new-Gallup-survey-65380327.html

President Obama's push for health care reform during the third quarter of 2009 has seriously damaged his public standing, according to new data from the Gallup Daily tracking poll. His job approval rating dropped nine points from the second to the third quarter, from 62 percent to 53 percent.

The nine-point second-to-third quarter drop is the highest Gallup has ever measured for an incumbent president during his first year in office, and among the highest quarter-to-quarter drops measured for any president at any point.


"In Obama's first quarter and second quarter, his job approval average compared favorably with those of prior presidents. But after the drop in his support during the last quarter, his average now ranks near the bottom for presidents at similar points in their presidencies. Only Clinton had a lower third-quarter average among elected presidents," Gallup said.

It seems that the harder he pushes to pass unpopular ObamaCare proposals, the lower his popularity gets. Maybe he’d better pay attention to that, as it IS indicative of how far from the American people his agenda strays.

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