Posted on 02/20/2009 10:13:13 AM PST by rom
Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 38% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Twenty-six percent (26%) Strongly Disapprove to give Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +12 (see trends).
Fifty percent (50%) say the President is doing a good or an excellent job on economic issues. Thirty percent (30%) say he is doing a poor job when it comes to the economy. (See Obama By the Numbers). Just 38% favor providing mortgage subsidies to financially troubled homeowners while 45% are opposed.
One month after Inauguration Day, the President gets much stronger reviews from non-investors than investors. Among those with money in the market, 33% Strongly Approve while 29% Strongly Disapprove. Among those who do not invest, 45% Strongly Approve while 21% take the opposite view. The President also does much better with government employees than with private sector workers.
Ideologically, 69% of liberals Strongly Approve along with 46% of political moderates and 13% of conservatives.
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update).
Overall, 59% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance so far while 40% disapprove. This marks just the second time his ratings have dipped below 60% since taking office. Since Inauguration Day, the President’s overall approval rating has stayed between 60% and 62% every day but four. Twice, including today, it slipped a point below that range and twice it went a point above.
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Is that the same 33% of investors who are crackheads?
I have no confidence that this Administration or Congress has the capability of doing anything positive to effect the market.
***They also can’t do anything positive for the country.
They should hang him out front
Any self-respecting Conservative that I know..."had it" with Obama months, and months ago.....
0% conservatives support the agenda of Obama, 13% just claim to be conservative and go "Dah...Dah...Dah..." when they snore.
I.E. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe are Republicans.
Are they conservative?
I know the answer.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
For those who can’t believe Obama’s numbers are still that high, I say wait a week. If, as I am hearing, the real crash may come to Wall Street on Monday. A few days after that, most Americans will have absorbed what has happened. They will slowly begin to realize that since Obama put down Hillary in June, the DOW will have been down nearly 45%. They will realize that since the election, the DOW will be down over 20% after already having been down 38% prior to the vote. Since his innauguration the DOW will be down over 15%.
By the end of next week, Americans will stop looking to Bush and start looking critically at Barack Obama and begin to assign him a measure of the blame for his negative talking down of the economy and his socialistic rampage of executive orders and unread spending bills. His time is quickly arriving. Pretty soon, J. Crew will wish that Michelle Obama would choose another catalog house.
33%????
Paint me paranoid however this has got to be total Bu "double L" BULL or the air we breath is tainted chemically!
Please don't forget retirees that worked hard,saved,with no debt,living off earned income and see our conservative investments disappearing like smoke in a whirlwind.
To old to start over.........
Sorry, didn't mean to leave you out. What hasn't / will disappear in the 0bama Depression will be next to worthless when the hyperinflation caused by the continuing bailouts starts.
I'm not retired yet, and after watching my 401Ks and IRAs shrink, I don't know if I ever can.
“I’m not retired yet, and after watching my 401Ks and IRAs shrink, I don’t know if I ever can.”
We haven’t even seen the punitive tax plan that will be announced within the next few weeks.
I stand corrected....but it is getting worse by the hour.
>38% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve
Hard. Core. Socialists.
It’s just like the “staunch Catholics” they trot out who “support abortion”
Especially when Zero has nearly total cover with the MSM / DBM.......
If the economy does not pick up this summer, the numbers will show continued gradual erosion. Once is redistribution & energy tax policies take their full effect, he’ll make George W. Bush look popular. The problem is I don’t see that happening before November 2010.
LOL!
We had a mini-bear market just since inauguration day. Down about 10%.
Stock market is a leading indicator, polls are a lagging indicator.
People will have a natural ‘give him a chance’ view for a few months.
Wait a while. The DOW at 7500 or 8000, 9% unemployment late this year, trillion dollar deficits, weak on our enemies and a danger to our freedoms ... Obama is managing to out-do Carter as the absolutely positively worst President in our lifetimes.
“By the end of next week, Americans will stop looking to Bush and start looking critically at Barack Obama and begin to assign him a measure of the blame for his negative talking down of the economy and his socialistic rampage of executive orders and unread spending bills. “
- I dont know when it will start happening, ... but it will.
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