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.

[SmokingJoe]

“when all is said and done all Obama will have left is the media who made him and worked their hardest to get him elected, and the far left, other then them Obama will have no one supporting him anymore”

Don't forget the blacks.
98% of blacks are still going to support this clown even if he just murdered someone in plain view. Think Marion Barry ex mayor of DC, , Nagin of New Orleans and Kwame Brown of Detroit. Fortunately, blacks make up only 13% of the population.

[NewLand]

are suggesting obama will do this or it will happen to him?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

17% give Obama an excellent job rating ....

That's 99 percent of the black population and one hundred percent of the United Convocation of Village Idiots.

[Fizzie]

What kind of a question is “are you proud” supposed to be?
I would be very curious to know if that question was EVER asked on any Presidential approval poll.

[struggle]

I was just about to say, time for Obama to get some ice cream!!

[mulligan]

For many it is already the 1930’s. Wait until is really gets worse than the 30’s.

[dandiegirl]

I hope he wigs out. Would be fun to watch. He’s ruining our country.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

I seem to recall somewhere, maybe it was a joke, an interview of Carter going something like this: President Carter, I understand you were a submariner once, is that correct? Why, yes! And it was understood that there was a potential that one day, you might be given the orders to fire one or more of you nuclear missiles? Yes, of course, we took that potential very seriously. Well, President Carter, if the order was given to fire those missiles, WHICH DIRECTION WOULD YOU HAVE FIRED THEM?

[Uncle Hal]

Down, down, down. When it stops dropping no body knows.

[Red in Blue PA]

[BlueAngel]

I can’t believe Obama is talking another week long vacation. The stress must be getting to him.

[Nasher]

If these numbers are accurate, 0bummer's got some serious problems. From today's Zogby:

Ages 18-29 - July 24

Approve 59%

Ages 18-29 - Aug. 31

Approve 41%

[sport]

I don’t believe it.

[Red in Blue PA]

HOLD THE VOTE FOR HEALTHCARE THE WEEK BEFORE THE 2010 ELECTIONS!

[mainerforglobalwarming]

I think the democrats/acorn activists are planning a trip to Iran to consult the mullahs as how to sew up a huge landslide victory next year.

[FLAMING DEATH]

According to this:

http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob1.htm

...it took George Bush 4 years to reach 48%. Obama got it in just 8 months.

Now that’s impressive!

[Tarpon]

Not me ... Many blacks I know are total fed up with him ... Broken promises and the economy are taking him down, according to them. I was a little surprised to hear that, since I figured they would hang with him until the end.

It is afterall, their economy too.

[Madame Dufarge]

I’m telling ya, claw marks on the door frame of the Oval Office as they drag him out hooked up to the Prozac drip.

[Red in Blue PA]

•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.

Most likely the number is unchanged because they fear being called a racist.

[dandiegirl]

I can see how some blacks that have been devoted for BO are feeling. They haven’t received their gas, mortgage and all the other freebies yet. In fact, the people who employed them probably had to lay them off due to BO and his crap.