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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.

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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

He’s worth $17 billion and could easily finance his own national campaign, he has immense credibility when it comes to economics and he is very ambitious. If we are still in deep economic doo doo in 2012 and the Repubs field a weak candidate, then yes, I could easily see Bloomberg jumping in.


81 posted on 10/16/2009 5:59:51 AM PDT by moose2004 (Stand up, speak out and stop Obamacare and GE)
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To: RockinRight

When the history books are written, Obozo will be ranked right up there with Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover.

I never thought we could get a President any worse than Carter - I was wrong.


82 posted on 10/16/2009 6:06:13 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Bullsh*t)
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To: moose2004

Jump in, yes. Make an impact, no.


83 posted on 10/16/2009 7:22:09 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

“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%.”

Well, I’m glad you cleared that up! (LOLOL)


84 posted on 10/16/2009 8:51:55 AM PDT by oldm60grunt
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To: Cheerio
So much of what is going on today, and will be here shortly, is IMHO STEALTH REAPARATIONS.

I wholeheartedly agree.
85 posted on 10/17/2009 3:39:42 PM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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To: athelass

None, because if they can’t win it they will steal it. I fully believe they got many of their votes that way the first time. Plus we ain’t seen nothin’ yet-if we thought he was promising the moon to the “gimme’ voters the first time around, just wait till this next time, where he’s already in position to actually “redistribute” property-and I believe he’ll be more open and blatant about it next time.


86 posted on 10/17/2009 3:44:12 PM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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To: LachlanMinnesota

That’s one of the worst things about getting a lefty in power-the nation is never able to recover course to the right, as much as it tacked to the left. Margaret Thatcher called it “the ratchet effect”, and I think we can all see truth of her principle since at least FDR.


87 posted on 10/17/2009 3:49:26 PM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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To: DestroyLiberalism

Bill Clinton can tell us that 43 percent is practically unanimous.


88 posted on 10/18/2009 7:41:59 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: reagan_fanatic

What makes you think that “historians” won’t agree with the Nobel Prize committe and rank him instead with JFK, FDR, and Wilson?


89 posted on 10/18/2009 7:43:35 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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