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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 ...


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To: SeekAndFind

From SeekAndFind: “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?”

This is a survey of 900 registered voters. You can view all the internal numbers by going here: http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/101509_poll1.pdf


21 posted on 10/15/2009 12:55:25 PM PDT by DestroyLiberalism
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To: SeekAndFind

Registered voters so “likely voters” would be even lower.


22 posted on 10/15/2009 12:56:36 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: DestroyLiberalism

Another encouraging aspect of this poll, as reported on FoxNews.com:

“Most Americans are unhappy with Congress these days — 66 percent disapprove, including 45 percent of Democrats, 77 percent of independents and 84 percent of Republicans. Overall, less than one of four Americans, 24 percent, approve of the job Congress is doing.

Looking ahead to the 2010 Congressional election, for the first time this year the Republicans have the advantage: 42 percent of voters say they are more likely to back the Republicans to provide a check on President Obama’s power, while 38 percent say they would vote for the Democrat to help the president pass his policies.”


23 posted on 10/15/2009 12:59:04 PM PDT by DestroyLiberalism
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To: DestroyLiberalism
The headline should read:

Latest Poll Shows 43% of Voters Brain Dead

24 posted on 10/15/2009 1:00:49 PM PDT by Harley (Life is Tough, But It's a Lot Tougher When You're a Liberal. Stop Global Whining Now.)
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To: Harley

Latest Poll Shows 43% of Voters Brain Dead

Perfect. We use Obamacare for their early exit and the country gets real again, soon.


25 posted on 10/15/2009 1:05:29 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (,)
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To: DestroyLiberalism
The number is too damn high!!!

Where is the data? Was the polled slanted to the left? Like 85% of people polled from DemocRAT districts....

26 posted on 10/15/2009 1:13:07 PM PDT by geo40xyz (BE PREPARED: Geo The Engineer so smart, he doesn't need a TelePrompter to speak. Unlike the AH:-))
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To: sam_paine

Percentages are just ratios - no units.

Some updated info for you:

Telegraph: faux-con, occasional genuine-con columns hidden deep inside to placate readership, who think it’s conservative. Axed Mark Steyn when it became clear he was highly-genuine-con.

Daily Mail: NOTHING LIKE NY Post. faux-con. No half nekkid chicks. Salacious cover stories of underage rape to increase sales. Stories of how having children would cost the misled brit-con readership $millions.

Times: liberal. Where Guardian writers go when they’ve been kind of accepted as mainstream. (News corp.)

Guardian: left, but sometimes in an unusual, 70s-style way, like they have fantasies that they’re not just simple anti-UK, anti-US, modern leftists.

Mirror: kooky left like MSNBC

Independent: hard modern left, headlines like “give all power to UN & they’ll fix the world”

Sun: “mainstream”. half nekkid chicks. Not-really-con, but not-really-lib either. pretty good measure of the country. (News corp.)


27 posted on 10/15/2009 1:13:17 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

I’m not sure what you mean by singling out the 18%, but if it is meant to be the black vote (as I suspect), keep in mind that blacks are only around 14% of the population and are (i) a smaller percentage of the electorate and (ii) Obama doesn’t get 100% of the black vote. If we assume that 12% of the electorate is composed of blacks that would still vote for Obama, then the math is 12% + 31%, and 31% is 35% of the 88% that aren’t the 12%, so it would mean that 65% of those that aren’t the 12% would not vote for Obama.


28 posted on 10/15/2009 1:14:55 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he will protect you?)
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To: SeekAndFind

“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? “

Probably polled only Boston, Massachusetts ;-)


29 posted on 10/15/2009 1:19:17 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: AuH2ORepublican
(ii) Obama doesn’t get 100% of the black vote. lol. No, not quite! But pretty darn close. There are some great conservative blacks on our side. But judging purely by the Dem primaries, the vast majority would rather judge a man by the color of his skin. OK. 65%. The anti-Obama number discounting his probable race effect.
30 posted on 10/15/2009 1:26:25 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 is still too high.

When it gets down to about 25%, the hard core, deranged, drugged out, permanently unemployed, union thugs, aids infected gays and the gay/lesbo America haters, the backbone of the liberals, we will know that Obamajindad is toast.


31 posted on 10/15/2009 1:29:54 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does 0b0z0 have any friends, who aren't traitors, spies, tax cheats and criminals?)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Yeah. I haven’t updated my homepage since clinton days.....

But the Daily Mail is great. I like reading the print version over there. Maybe the online version isn’t so good.


32 posted on 10/15/2009 1:37:44 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: DestroyLiberalism
I doubt that Obama’s support is ever going to go below 40% for the following reasons: (1) 90 percent of black voters will stay with Obama regardless of his policies. (2) The majority of Jews will stay with him even if he sells out Israel. (3) The yellow dog democrats will support him.

The majority of “independents” are starting to understand that they elected a man that was a creation of the media but is nothing but an empty suit. The radical left is already starting to jump ship, for Obama hasn't done one that that he promised them. I suspect that Obama’s popularity ratings will hit the low 40’s before the end of this year.

33 posted on 10/15/2009 1:38:23 PM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: Zathras

How about Howard Dean and Barbara Boxer on a third party Green ticket?

That should finish off the Democratic Party.


34 posted on 10/15/2009 1:39:50 PM PDT by bigoil
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

WTF are you talking about? Please clarify your comment, it is incomprehensible as it is.


35 posted on 10/15/2009 1:47:57 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Harley
Latest Poll Shows 43% of Voters Brain Dead

Poll: 43% of Voters Still Hopeful for Change


36 posted on 10/15/2009 1:48:25 PM PDT by newgeezer (It is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed. --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Zathras

They’re doing it in New Jersey right now. If it works (and it will), expect them to do it again nationally.


37 posted on 10/15/2009 1:48:42 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
Didn’t Clinton win with 43% of the vote?

We have Perot to thank for that one.
38 posted on 10/15/2009 1:49:16 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Logical me
Only the ignorant would vote for that communists pig again.

Cannot agree with you there. Many in America WANTED WEALTH RETURNED TO THE RIGHTFUL OWNERS and they are getting exactly what they voted for. Joe the Plumber hit the nail on the head - child in the WH is ALL ABOUT REDISTRIBUTION.

So much of what is going on today, and will be here shortly, is IMHO STEALTH REAPARATIONS.
39 posted on 10/15/2009 1:52:43 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: DestroyLiberalism
Hell, I can't believe that 43% would be dumb enough to vote for him again. I mean, there are the 20% Liberal bastards who will root for the taliban if their guy was supporting them, but 43%??? What up America?



Get that nasty-ass finger out of my face!!!!
40 posted on 10/15/2009 1:53:49 PM PDT by mentor2k
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