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Obama job approval drops to 49% in latest Fox News poll. Only 43% would vote to re-elect him today.
Fox News ^ | Thursday, October 15, 2009 | Fox News.com

Posted on 10/15/2009 12:13:08 PM PDT by DestroyLiberalism

In what may be the ultimate job rating, 43 percent of voters say that they would vote to re-elect President Obama if the 2012 election were held today, down from 52 percent six months ago, from April 22-23, 2009.

Obama's job approval rating comes in at 49 percent this week. That's down just one percentage point from late September, but it marks a new low approval for the president -- and the first time the Fox News poll has measured his approval below 50 percent.

Moreover, the number of Americans saying they would vote to re-elect President Obama has dropped. If the election were held today the poll finds more voters say they would back someone else in the 2012 election than would back the president.

Despite winning the Nobel Peace Prize last Friday, the latest Fox News poll finds the president's ratings on foreign issues are lower than his overall job ratings. All in all, 49 percent of Americans say they approve of the job President Obama is doing and 45 percent disapprove. His average approval for the term so far is 58 percent.

On Afghanistan, 41 percent of Americans say they approve of the job Obama is doing and 43 percent disapprove. For his handling of Iran, 44 percent approve and 43 percent disapprove. On the president's handling of the economy, voters are almost equally split: 48 percent approve and 49 percent disapprove. On health care, some 42 percent approve of the president's performance and half disapprove, 50 percent.

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Opinion Dynamics Corp. conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News from October 13 to October 14. The poll has a 3-point error margin.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; 2012; bho44; bhojobapproval; elections; obama; vainhussein
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1 posted on 10/15/2009 12:13:10 PM PDT by DestroyLiberalism
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To: DestroyLiberalism
43%, that's going to leave a mark. The Independents are running for the exits. That has to frighten the unholy trinity of Barry/Rahm/Axeldork.
2 posted on 10/15/2009 12:15:19 PM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: OldDeckHand

He’s slipping into Jimmy Carter territory...


3 posted on 10/15/2009 12:17:35 PM PDT by RockinRight (The liberals' idea of tax relief is to give everyone a tube of K-Y Jelly.)
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To: DestroyLiberalism
We are still fighting a rising tide of people who want free stuff. Add in 20 million illegals as citizens and the Founding Fathers’ ideal of limited government and individualism will be something the ruling majority will laugh at. We are already considered extremist for quoting the Constitution or the Founding Fathers.
4 posted on 10/15/2009 12:18:20 PM PDT by avacado
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To: OldDeckHand

43% = 18% + 25%. That 25% is 30% of the 82% that aren’t the 18%.

70% of the 82% that aren’t the 18% would not vote for 0.

70%.


5 posted on 10/15/2009 12:18:31 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: DestroyLiberalism
43 percent of voters say that they would vote to re-elect President Obama if the 2012 election were held today

That's 43% of those who voted to elect him in the first place...right? /s
6 posted on 10/15/2009 12:19:01 PM PDT by John.Galt2012 (I'll take Liberty and you can keep the "Change"!)
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To: DestroyLiberalism
Only the ignorant would vote for that communists pig again.
7 posted on 10/15/2009 12:19:18 PM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: OldDeckHand

Didn’t Clinton win with 43% of the vote?


8 posted on 10/15/2009 12:21:05 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: DestroyLiberalism

He undoubtedly sucks more than any President in modern times. The absolute worst since the beginning of the 1900s.

Worse than Taft.
Worse than FDR.
Worse than LBJ.
Worse than Nixon.
Worse than Carter.


9 posted on 10/15/2009 12:21:33 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: OldDeckHand

“That has to frighten the unholy trinity of Barry/Rahm/Axeldork.”

My fear is that poll numbers like these are going to amplify efforts to get health care reform either because a) they know that in light of these poll numbers, Obama won’t have a second shot at this issue; or b) they foolishly believe the public’s lukewarm support is because the president hasn’t ACCOMPLISHED anything, so once health reform is enacted, his poll numbers will rise... :-(


10 posted on 10/15/2009 12:21:57 PM PDT by DrC
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To: DestroyLiberalism
"I inherited.

These polls from the previous.

Administration."

The haiku of FAIL.

11 posted on 10/15/2009 12:21:58 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Apparently I'm a racist.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
'Didn’t Clinton win with 43% of the vote?"

Two words - Ross Perot. If it wasn't for Perot and his 19% of the vote, there's a decent chance that Clinton wouldn't have won. Absent some other third-party billionaire, 43% just ain't going to get it done for Barry in 2012.

12 posted on 10/15/2009 12:24:04 PM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: OldDeckHand

I expect the MSM to start inventing another Ross Perot anytime now for the same reason.


13 posted on 10/15/2009 12:26:46 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: DrC
"My fear is that poll numbers like these are going to amplify efforts to get health care reform"

I've said this before, but I think that they've already resigned themselves to the fact that they're going to lose the House next year. Plus, it doesn't bode well for them in the Senate that their Leader is in the political battle of his tenure, just to keep his job.

I saw that speech to the Joint Session as the big middle finger to the GOP. That was Obama saying - not so subtly - to the left side of the chamber, "It's either now or never, because you fools are all about to lose your jobs next year". I thought then, and I think now, that they'll ram something through sooner, rather than later.

14 posted on 10/15/2009 12:28:17 PM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: DestroyLiberalism

Explains Obama’s rabid, wild-eyed, snarling demand that ObamaCare and Crap and Tirade be passed NOW!!! He knows he’s finished in 2010.


15 posted on 10/15/2009 12:28:50 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: clintonh8r

Haik0:

You are a racist.
We sell missiles to China.
Nothing you can do.


16 posted on 10/15/2009 12:30:30 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Yes, with third party candidates in both elections.


17 posted on 10/15/2009 12:40:36 PM PDT by GVnana ("Obama is incredibly naive and grossly egotistical." Sarkozy)
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To: DestroyLiberalism
43 percent of voters say that they would vote to re-elect President Obama if the 2012 election were held today

Again, did the key questions --- are these LIKELY voters they are polling or registered voters? How many percent Republican, Democrat and Independent was in their sample size?
18 posted on 10/15/2009 12:44:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (wH)
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To: DestroyLiberalism

Give it another 6-12 months.


19 posted on 10/15/2009 12:46:34 PM PDT by TheDailyChange (Politics,Conservatism,Liberalism)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

You forgot your units.


20 posted on 10/15/2009 12:51:20 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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