Posted on 08/23/2009 6:35:52 AM PDT by ScottinVA
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. These figures mark the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President. The previous low of -12 was reached on July 30 (see trends).
Prior to today, the number who Strongly Approved of the President’s performance had never fallen below 29%. Some of the decline has come from within the President’s own party. Just 49% of Democrats offer such a positive assessment of the President at this time.
At the other end of the spectrum, today’s total for Strongly Disapprove matches the highest level yet recorded. The 41% mark was reached just once before and that came one week ago today. Seventy percent (70%) of Republicans now Strongly Disapprove along with 49% of those not affiliated with either major party.
Check out our review of last week’s key polls to see “What They Told Us.” Topics include health care, the deficit, stimulus package, state polls and more.
The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates also available on Twitter and Facebook.
Overall, 48% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Fifty-one percent (51%) now disapprove.
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A pstchiatrist friend of mine used to say that anyone wanting to be President had to be a narcissist...but I think President Obama sets new levels. I don't think that's his only disorder, either, but I am not a psych professional.
Mom was an ace shot and was on the rifle team in college. Almost got drafted because of the unusual spelling of her name.
would you please add me to to your list.
Thank you for your time.
JP
Americans don’t like socialism.
No doubt a lot of the loss in the Democrat party can be attributed to the disapproval of his performance from his Left.
He’s collapsing on all flanks.
As supporters drift from “strong” to “somewhat”, they are less likely to defend him in conversation, making it safer for conservatives to talk about him without somebody having a screaming fit.
It will start to get interesting when his support degrades further. Blacks are likely to take any criticism of Obama personally, and get very defensive.
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Good points. Interesting point about black support. I think it is very personal to many African Americans. I look forward to the day when that voting block is not ubiquitous. It doesn’t have to be that way - and would be better for them if it weren’t, imho. The sooner African Americans realize that, the better.
I could go on and on about the difference between African Americans and Africans, as I worked with Africans directly for 4 years. But what’s most enlightening, is to hear Africans talk about African Americans - their attitudinal issues. I’m not saying they’ve had an easy road; I am talking frankly about what may be best for that community.
If BHO gets down to just black support he’ll be at 12 1/2.
Sorry! The ‘finally!’ referred to more of that 48% ‘finally’ peeling away their support of dear leader!
Bump!
I had to post that list in another forum after I posted when the dipsh!t hit ZERO in Rasmussen. The libs there started screeching about their cherry-picked polls showing Zer0 with much better approval. Never heard another peep from them after they saw the accuracy results!
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I’m surprised they deemed Fordham University legitimate...LOL! Seriously, I’ve found that with the health care debacle - if we just state facts - which we do - they will eventually crawl back under the rocks.
Liberals hate the facts. The more liberal you are, the more you hate facts.
I think this is a law - kind of like the transitive law in mathematics.
Thanks! Had a GREAT day! ;-)
Ramadan Greetings, Obama!
I'm agreeing with you about the approval floor. My guess was closer to 25%. He might get below the floor if he gets to the point where the Marxists are mad at him for not being Marxist ENOUGH, much like Bush was in a situation where Dems were mad at him for being a Republican, and Republicans were mad at him for acting like a RINO.
Plenty of things to criticize Obama for, but it appears he at least had the sense to leave the Muslim faith. He drinks beer, doesn’t he? Or are you saying he is the ultimate “sleeper cell”?
No problem!
I’ve had little dust-ups with other folks here but I didn’t recall ever clashing with you!
Have a great week!
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