Gallup. Today. 49% approval rating.
higher than clinton and reagan had at this point, right?
I have no idea, but to compare Obama to Clinton or Reagan is laughable.
Some things to consider:
"The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 28% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -12 (see trends)."
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll"ASBURY PARK, N.J., Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Sixty-six percent of U.S. voters think the country is headed in the wrong direction while 28 percent approve of its course, a national opinion poll indicated."
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/11/25/Poll-America-headed-in-wrong-direction/UPI-28191290722648/" . . . As you can see, the 2010 election resulted in a loss of at least 60 house seats from the President's party. No one has had such a midterm drubbing since FDR back in 1938 when he lost over 70 seats (probably thanks to the fact that unemployment had jumped back up to around 20% after falling to a still terrible 11% in 1937).
This election was really something: The defeat was worse than for the Republicans after Watergate. It was worse than for the Democrats during Johnson's Vietnam escalation and civil rights upheavals. It was worse than for the Democrats when Clinton tried to push HillaryCare on an unwilling public. And twice as bad as when Iraq started to spiral out of control and Hurricane Katrina had devastated New Orleans the year before."
http://thescottrants.blogspot.com/2010/11/2010-election-biggest-midterm-defeat.html"Two-thirds of Americans believe country going off on the wrong track
NEW YORK , N.Y. - October 25, 2010 - President Obama is spending the next week crisscrossing the country in support of Democratic candidates before this year's midterm elections. While the president may do a great job of energizing the base, he may not be able to convert any Independents who have yet to decide for whom they will vote. Currently, two-thirds of Americans (67%) have a negative opinion of the job President Obama is doing while just over one-third (37%) have a positive opinion."
http://www.harrisinteractive.com/Hi_assets/TopHitPageNews.htmlIn other words, the majority of those polled believe the president is doing a lousy job, the country is headed in the wrong direction, and voters confirmed this in historic terms last month.
