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.
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Hope he had fun playing president.
Before he's done he's gonna make Carter look good.
Obummer is Jimmy Carter 2.0... without any patches or fixes.
They are absolutely doing it in NJ. Wonder how much Corzine paid off the third party to split the vote.
Nowhere to go but down.
Corzine is paying for everything, including the endorsements. It’s so obvious, it’s absurd.
Quick!
Let’s throw him another meaningless award!
LOL!
What scares me is that they are NOT running scared from these polls. Usually pols live and die by the polls. These people are more and more politically suicidal, and Pelosi seems to have such a financial stranglehold over the House that members are more afraid of her than they are of their own voters. Newt said they think they will get enough campaign money from the unions that they aren’t worried about private donations. I have never seen government so deaf to the will of the people, and I was paying attention during the Vietnam War. If public opinion doesn’t move them and money doesn’t move them, what kind of pressure can we bring to prevent these people from doing this to us?
His name is Mike Bloomberg.
DeMint was correct.
Healthcare is Zero’s Waterloo.
Yes. We must make sure this is a two person race...
Obummer vs. a CONSERVATIVE!
Thats good maybe the nimrods in congress will not follow him so blindly now.
Of course this will no way effect his opinion of himself. he is so out of touch that nothing can stop him from thinking he is right and the most wonderful thing to happen to us all.
Well it ought to be interesting because the media is going to stay with him regardless in 2012....
So the key theme will be that people are rejecting Obama because he is a black man. Like everything else the Liberals will claim this. Even though America voted him in, in the first place that fact will be overlooked and after his defeat it will be said we have become a more divisive and racist country. Idiots....
43% of likely voters at home during the day to answer the phone while watching oprah in downtown Chicago would vote to re-elect Obama
The scary thing is i understood that.
I think the 18% is a little high.
Some of the liberal sheeple are finally waking up that Obama is a total media creation and imposter. Completely out of his league to run this country. But at the end of the day, they voted for him so tough if your now believing you were sold phony goods.
How much dumbing down via public schooling and wealth transfer can this republic stand?
Which we are likely to have in next election too.
Welcome to FR - thanks for posting this.
I’m thinking Soros will fund RINOs in the primaries.
Then Baraq wins in a three way race, like BJ Clinton.
Unlikely but possible.
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