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The White House signaled optimism after French President Emmanuel Macron secured his re-election victory over Marine Le Pen, despite his approval rating of 36 percent. “President Macron appears to have secured a double-digit victory over LePen, at a time when his approval rating is 36 percent,” mused President Joe Biden’s chief of staff Ronald Klain wrote on social media, calling it an “interesting observation” while sharing Macron’s polling numbers from Morning Consult.

Alternate headline: Something remains very wrong with 41 percent of America Maybe more than that, because chances are some of the 59 percent of registered voters who have an unfavorable view of Hillary will vote for her anyway, if only because they’ve bought the nonsense that Trump is a racist, a robber baron or whatever else he’s supposed to be. Or they’ve bought the idea that while Hillary is corrupt and dishonest, she’s somehow competent and thus a passable alternative to the wild-eye lunatic Trump - even though the track records of the two candidates support neither of those characterizations....

President Barack Obama's signature health care reform law remains unpopular with the American public just months before it fully goes into effect, according to the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The poll shows 49 percent of Americans say they believe the Affordable Care Act is a bad idea. That’s the highest number recorded on this question since the poll began measuring it in 2009. Just 37 percent say the plan is a good idea. As the political battle over implementation of the law heats up in Washington, the numbers mark an increase in unpopularity since July 2012, right after...

After a weekend of campaigning in four states President Obama will spend Election eve behind-closed-doors at the White House today.

A significant majority of voters are considering voting against President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, expressing sour views of his new health care law and deep skepticism about his ability to create jobs and grow the sluggish economy Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42737.html#ixzz10jjT7O00

Shameful. We should be thanking him, you know. The 46% who say Obama deserves re-election is similar to his recent job approval ratings, which have been running just under 50%. The current results also echo what Gallup found recently when it asked voters whether they would be more likely to vote for Obama or the Republican candidate in the 2012 presidential election… The current numbers for Obama are similar to what Gallup found for Bill Clinton at almost precisely the same point in his presidency, in late March 1994. In that poll, 46% of Americans (the survey did not identify...

This survey comes after an earlier poll in January A majority of people believe that Israel and Iran have a mainly negative influence in the world, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests. It shows that the two countries are closely followed by the United States and North Korea. The poll asked 28,000 in 27 countries to rate a dozen countries plus the European Union in terms of whether they have a positive or negative influence. Canada, Japan and the EU are viewed most positively in the survey. 'Traditional divides' In January, the BBC World Service revealed polling...

Blair's unpopularity blamed on US friendship By Andrew Pierce Last Updated: 2:02am GMT 03/03/2007 Tony Blair's close relationship with President George W Bush, which led to the decision to go to war in Iraq, has been blamed by allies for his dramatic slide in popularity. Mr Blair's close relationship with Mr Bush has made him less popular The third and final part of the BBC2 documentary Blair: the Inside Story also discloses for the first time the exasperation of some of the Prime Minister's allies over the constant battles with Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, and the negative effects they had...

April 19, 2005 Chirac Cabinet tears itself apart over EU constitutionFrom Charles Bremner in Paris THE prospect of France rejecting the European constitution ignited a blazing Cabinet row yesterday after President Chirac signalled that he aims to sack Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the Prime Minister, whether the country votes “yes” or “no”. M Raffarin, whose unpopularity is deemed to be a big factor in the troubles of the “yes” campaign for the May 29 referendum, rounded on Dominique de Villepin, the Interior Minister and close ally of the President, over damning remarks that he made against his own Government. After a...

<p>SACRAMENTO -If all it took was public disdain, Gray Davis might become the first governor in California history to have the voters boot him out of office.</p> <p>Davis' approval rating has sunk to its lowest point -- lower than any sitting governor in the past 55 years. In a recent survey of voters, nearly half said they would recall Davis, who has been at the helm during a disastrous energy crisis and an unprecedented budget deficit.</p>

Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has engaged in a furious argument with his own party chiefs, demanding that they pull his Social Democrat party together to shore up his dented personal authority.Oh to be a fly on the wall of that meeting, "You must all love me! Now! I am your Fuhrer!" - Ivan In what opponents will see as a sign of fraying nerves, Mr Schröder was reported to have erupted at a meeting of the executive committee of the party on Monday night, attacking those straying from the party line and asserting: "It was not the SPD that won the...