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Obama Approval Hits Now Low, Voters Say He's Wrong Kind of Change Washington, DC -- In an election that is turning out to be focused on the liberal, pro-abortion agenda of the Obama administration, a new Gallup poll shows Americans give President Barack Obama the lowest approval ratings of his presidency. http://LifeNews.com/nat6785.html

RCP Presidential Approval Average: Approve: 44.6%, Disapprove: 50.3%, Spread: -5.7%

RCP Average of Presidential Job Approval: -5.3%

RCP Poll Average Obama Approve: 45.8, Disapprove: 49.3, Spread: -3.5%

Barack Obama’s fading popularity could cost him the next U.S. presidential election, according to a poll today. Most Americans would vote for any Republican politician over their current leader, the independent survey shows. With the U.S. mid-term elections fast approaching in November, Mr Obama’s popularity ratings make grim reading for Democrats hoping to cling to power on Capitol Hill. His job approval rating has dropped to 44 per cent, his worst ever score, in Connecticut's Quinnipiac University poll.

As the president’s approval rating continues to plummet nearly as fast as BP’s stock, he is fortunate that it is not lower than it is. In the new Quinnipiac he has -4 spread in his approval rating and would loose to any republican in the 2012 if the election were held today. You would think this would be front page news because we were bombarded by the mainstream media with how poorly President Bush was doing in his second term. Of course a quick search of all the mainstream media’s web sites (CNN, MSNBC, CBS, and ABC) resulted in not...

Arnold Schwarzenegger approval drops to record low -- tied with Gray Davis dsiders@sacbee.com Published Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's job approval rating has fallen to a record low, matching that of former Gov. Gray Davis from 2003, the year he was recalled, according to a Field Poll released today. Registered voters held an even dimmer view of the job state lawmakers are doing. Though the Legislature's job approval rating ticked up three points from March, it remained a dismal 16 percent, according to the poll. With the state mired in yet another budget crisis, just 22 percent of...

Now that the luster has clearly worn off president Obama and the country has realized all that glitters is not gold only to be left to wonder why our skin has turned green. It is obvious that Barack Obama is not the real McCoy but a gold plated fraud that has not lived up to his campaign promises, failed miserably as a leader, and instead of bringing hope to America, he has only brought despair. The results of a recent Washington Post – ABC News poll show that nearly 60 percent of voters lack faith in the president. This is...

Obama Approval Rating Drops, Pro-Abortion Health Care Repeal to New High Washington, DC -- A new poll released today finds pro-abortion President Barack Obama's approval rating dropping to one of its lowest levels since he took office. Meanwhile, the percentage of Americans who want to repeal the health care bill he signed into law that funds abortions has reached a new high. http://LifeNews.com/nat6359.html

“President Barack Obama’s approval rating hovers at an all-time low," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

The latest round-up of President Obama's job approval or favorability ratings by state updates or adds California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Oregon, Washington state, and Wisconsin. Alabama SurveyUSA, Dec. 11-13 2008 election: McCain 60 percent, Obama 38 percent SurveyUSA says 61 percent disapprove of the job Obama is doing while 35 percent approve, with 4 percent undecided. Independents, who make up 23 percent of the sample, disapprove by 75 percent to 21 percent. Obama's support among fellow Democrats is only 63 percent. White voters (73 percent of the sample) disapprove by 75 percent to 21 percent while black...

Mayor Bloomberg's approval rating has fallen to its lowest point in the last 4-1/2 years - just one of the elected officials to feel the wrath of New York voters. Voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, support Bloomberg's plan to balance the budget by freezing city workers' wages, but are mixed on his push to trim city services instead of raising taxes. Just 43% of voters would raise taxes to balance the budget, down 10 points from a year ago. About 45% would cut services, up 6 points from a year earlier. While 63% of voters would...

Why does Camelot lie in ruins? Intellectual error of monumental proportion has been made, and not exclusively by the politicians. Error also lies squarely with the economists. The "academic scribbler" who must bear substantial responsibility is Lord Keynes... James M. Buchanan, in The Consequences of Keynes The President's State of the Union Address helped him to a huge bounce in his approval ratings. On the day Obama made his SOTU speech Rasmussen reported his approval index at a -15. But as they say, the polls giveth and the polls taketh away. On Monday, the day the budget was officially released...

American voters are split 45 - 45 percent on whether Barack Obama's first year in office is a success or failure and split 35 - 37 percent on whether the U.S. would be better off if John McCain had won the 2008 election, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released today. As he marks the first anniversary of his inauguration, President Obama's approval has slipped slightly into an even 45 - 45 percent split for the first time.

Back in April of last year, when Obama's approval rating was at 61%, we ran a piece about the effect of the president's approval rating on the midterm election results (yeah, we were thinking about the midterms that early). The statistics show that just to avoid losing seats, a president needs a 65% approval rating. So with 61%, Obama was already headed for losses at that time. According to RCP, Obama currently has a 61% approval rating, and it's falling, with the most recent three polls in the high 50's. That puts The One in Bush (1990), Nixon (1970), and...

There is an old business adage that says, "Be nice to people on the way up, because you will meet those same people on the way down." President Barack Obama would have been well advised to follow that adage. Think back to a year ago, right after the election. President Obama was at the peak of his popularity. The hope and change president was going to govern from the middle, unite the country, and bring America to new heights. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was almost at her low. Through no fault of her own she was a political joke. Because...

The political and media world today seems to revolve around polls. A day does not by that we are treated to a poll result of some sort on subjects both timely and inane. This now substitutes, within the mainstream media, for news and real reporting. Notwithstanding the fact that polling can be manipulated (and has shown to be numerous times), the use of these surveys has become a religion within the halls of Congress and the White House, and a justification to pursue agenda items. As a result many point to the still-high job approval rating of President Obama as...

The victories by Republicans in two Governors races last Tuesday appear to have lifted the party's prospects in 2010 and in 2012 in the minds of voters with 58% of those surveyed by Rasmussen now believe the next President will be Republican Both Gallup and Rasmussen now show solid leads for the GOP in the generic Congressional ballot for 2010 - 4% in Gallup and 6% in Rasmussen. For Gallup, this is a 6% shift in one month, and a 10% shift in two months away from the Democrats. Nate Silver show more Democratic held Senate seats at risk in...

According to a new Pew Research poll Americans are not happy, Jimmy Carter Might call it malaise. We don't like the way things are going maybe because the economy as the same poll says that 90% of Americans are not happy with the economy and two thirds feel that their personal finances are in the dumps. We don't like the way the Afghan war is going, we blame the President, and we still don't want our health care controlled by the government. Put it all together it and American sentiment is anti-Incumbent, we want to throw the bums out. All...

Psst. Don't tell anybody, but Republicans would win control of Congress if the election were now, instead of next year. It's sure to remain the biggest political secret not in the news. Naturally, the media will ignore it; the polling company that produced the survey, Gallup, even buried it under a misleading headline. Maybe, to get some coverage, the Republicans could claim to have hidden somebody in a weather balloon, or something. The congressional election prediction is part of a one-two punch Gallup delivered Barack Obama's Chicago mob on Tuesday, albeit reluctantly.