One term is one too many.
Posted on 03/30/2011 8:42:59 AM PDT by Qbert
President Obama's approval rating has hit an all-time low, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University.
The survey measured Obama's approval at just 42 percent, with 48 percent of voters disapproving of the job he's doing in office.
Fifty percent of voters surveyed believe the president does not deserve election to a second term next year — just 41 percent said he does. The 42 percent approval number marks a four percentage-point drop over the past month. A Q-poll released March 3 had Obama at 46 percent approval; 45 percent of voters said he didn't deserve a second term.
Obama is now in a dead heat with a generic Republican challenger, trailing an unamed Republican in a hypothetical 2012 match-up 36 percent to 37 percent.
"President Barack Obama's approval numbers are at their lowest level ever, slightly below where they were for most of 2010 before he got a bump up in surveys after the November election and into the early part of this year," said Peter Brown, assistant director at the Quinnipiac Polling Institute.
Brown pointed to Obama's overall negatives on the deficit, economy, foreign policy and healthcare as driving up his disapproval numbers.
The poll also gave Obama negative ratings on the military action in Libya. Overall, voters oppose the nation's involvement in Libya — 47 percent to 41 percent — and a full 58 percent said Obama has not clearly articulated the goal of U.S. involvement.
The president has taken heat from both Democrats and Republicans for his handling of the Libya effort, with critics questioning the clarity and duration of the mission and demanding to know why Congress wasn't consulted before the president took action.
Sixty-one percent of respondents in the poll said removing Col. Moammar Gadhafi from power is not worth having American troops "fight and possibly die."
The poll surveyed 2,069 registered voters nationwide and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 2.2 percentage points.
One term is one too many.
WOW!! All of 42%!!!
WHERE do Americans have their BRAINS?????
THis guy’s credibility and approval should be about 15% by now.
42% need lobotomies.
This is very depressing in that it indicates that 42% of the country is demonstrably stupid.
Well, remember it IS a Quinnipiac Poll and run by a leftist Liberal Democrat named Carroll.
So his popularity is probably WORSE.
So the betetr question to ask is, where do 7% of Americans have their heads?
What a loser extraordinaire.
I'd say those 42% have had lobotomies.
The Obummer is on Fox now, giving a speech to some bunch of hapless fools. He’s speaking extemporaneously - or at least it seems so - and sounds like a bumbling idiot: waving his hands, talking about the price of oil. Ghastly. Whoever let him out today?
>WOW!! All of 42%!!!
WHERE do Americans have their BRAINS?????
THis guy’s credibility and approval should be about 15% by now.<
Because we cannot all think alike. There are stupid people, there are smart people. Like one my friends who owns an online business..”their gullibility makes me money”.
42% ! Who are these people? What does that say about persons who answer landline calls? What does that say about the poll taking process? Shame.
What is never factored in the overall approval polls are the fact that the person being polled doesn’t want to be branded a racist. They will say they approve even though they will never vote for him. I think he is really in the high 30’s, which is really terrible. Just look at where Carter was at this point in his Presidency. Obummer is right on track for a worse disaster.
They still read Hollywood Variety, US magazine, watch CNN, the Weather Channel, or they get their news weekly (about 5 minutes) from brief glimpses of the CNN text scroll with the sound either too low to hear or drowned out by the 3 other monitors flashing ESPN.
FReepers and dedicated informed Conservatives, barely make up more than 5% of the population.
“where do 7% of Americans have their heads? “
Where the sun never shines, apparently. Unless the Quinnipiac Poll is biased, which I believe it is.
I check the Rasmussen Presidential Poll everey day and keep hoping he will wind up where he belongs - in the toilette. It shows him dropping lately. Today there is a 17% point spread between those who strongly disapprove of his policies and those who don’t, with the numbers in our favor.
It hasn’t been less than 10% in months.
Shouldn’t there be a decimal between the 4 and the 2?
REALLY?
42 % of Americans approve of Obama????
That is scary!
The guy is an IDIOT.
He lacks everything needed to be a President.
Hard to imagine that we have that many weak people in our Country.
Bingo! That is a huge bias in all of these polls!
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