Zogby: Obama Approval Plummets to 42 Percent

Zogby / Newsmax ^ | August 31, 2009 | John Zogby

[library user]

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President Barack Obama's job approval rating is down to 42%, with a decline in approval from Democrats the leading factor.

The latest Zogby Interactive poll of 4,518 likely voters conducted from August 28-31 found 48% disapprove and 42% approve of the job Obama is doing. The poll found 75% of Democrats approve of Obama's performance, a drop of 13 points among Democrats from an interactive poll done July 21-24 of this year. That same poll found 48% of all likely voters approving of Obama's job performance, and 49% disapproving.

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In the time between the two aforementioned polls, Zogby conducted a similar interactive survey from Aug. 18-20. That poll found 45% of all likely voters approving of Obama's job performance and 51% disapproving. So Obama is up very slightly overall from 10 days earlier.

The Aug. 28-31 poll also found that:

• 17% give Obama an excellent job rating, 25% rate him good, 16% fair and 41% poor. Combining the two highest and lowest rankings shows 42% rating Obama positively and 57% negatively. (This is the standard Zogby International has used for many years in measuring job performance.)

• Likely voters are closely split on whether they have a favorable opinion of Obama, with 50% favorable and 48% unfavorable. Democrats are more positive about Obama personally than they are of his job performance, with 85% rating him favorably.

• 52% of all likely voters are proud to have Obama as President, and 35% are ashamed. The percentage of those proud is unchanged from six weeks ago.

• A majority of likely voters (53%) believe the U.S. headed in the wrong direction, with 38% saying right direction.

[Munz]

>You’re looking at it from the stanpoint of a “normal” person. Inside every narcissist a person who knows he’s a failure. This view is reinforced by the first person who telss him he’s an idiot of which there are more and more everyday. Every mistake real or imagines is like a stake through the heart. The bamster is a tremendouly unhappy person inside.<

I admit i have no clue what he thinks or feels, but I hope he is as miserable as he is making me.

[2Jedismom]

I think Zogby had him at 41% right after Katrina.

http://www.zogby.com/news/readnews.cfm?ID=1020

[patriciaruth]

You are right that Carter was not only incompetent, but inimical to American interests.

However, during his tenure, I only thought he was incompetent. It was unbelievable and unthinkable for many Americans at the time that a President could be linked with the enemy.

Some people now believe that people in Carter’s administration tipped off the Russians about the helicopters in the desert rescue plan for our hostages in Iran, and that the helicopters didn’t run into each other by accident, but were fired upon by Russian planes and it was all covered up.

[April Lexington]

The Democrat legacy...Kennedy, LBJ, Carter, Clinton Obama. Head cases all. Where do these communist crazies come from? The Democratic Party is a communist front and MUST be destroyed! Think globally, destroy locally!

[reagandemocrat]

***i ain’t even gonna say what flavor...lol***

Ben & Jerry’s “Hubby Hubby”?

[wardaddy]

we had no clue back then Jimmah was the red he was really....he was sort of a populist folksy “Christian” southerner who was allegedly smart and a pal of Rickover.

Pat Caddell and Jody Powell Hamilton Jordan weren’t SDS types by a long stretch but after he was elected some of his leftist progressive crap started popping up

support for ERA being a big one

his mom was something of a Freedom Rider sort...I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

Obama and his gang are far more red....way more

[appeal2]

I can promise you that this guy has never a happy day in his life.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The usual history of this kind of nut is to pile lie upon lie upon lie. Until things get so disgusting that a coup happens.

[HiTech RedNeck]

They stabbed Carter in the back?

[patriciaruth]

Or Carter stabbed Delta Force in the back. It’s just a rumor, possibly on a par with the 9/11 Truther type rumors.

I don’t know if he was a mole or he simply was sympatico with moles in his administration.

[goldstategop]

It took Obama eight months to get to where it took former President Bush eight years. And that's with a compliant Obamagasmic media behind him!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus