The Trend Continues: Obama Support on Economy Evaporating
Posted on July 14, 2009
You know the trend is bad for Obama when even CBS admits the slippage.
President Obama’s approval rating has fallen six points in the past month, a new CBS News poll finds, amid growing skepticism about his handling of the economy and questions about the impact of the stimulus package.
The president’s current approval rating, which is 57 percent, is still relatively high. But it has fallen 11 points from its peak of 68 percent in April, and has also dropped since last month’s mark of 63 percent. His disapproval rating, meanwhile, has risen from 23 percent in April to 32 percent today.
The decline in support is coming not from Republicans – whose support for the president has actually risen – but from Democrats and independents. While 82 percent of Democrats still approve of the job Mr. Obama is doing, this number is down ten points from last month.
The president’s support among independents has fallen eight points to 50 percent. Only 30 percent of Republicans back Mr. Obama, though that’s up from 23 percent in June.
This is pretty bad news for Obama, especially since these results were from a rigged poll that oversampled Democrats.
Republicans: Unweighted – 256, Weighted – 220
Democrats: Unweighted – 314, Weighted – 332
Independents: Unweighted – 374, Weighted – 392
They used a weighting formula to artificially create a 12-point difference between Republicans and Democrats, and then report that Barack Obama has a 57% approval rating in the general population. What a shock! Even with that, they still note that his support dropped six points from June and eleven points from April.
Maybe Americans are finally waking up to smell reality! I hope it’s not too late.
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The most left wing liberal in the most left wing state in the nation (my very loved mother in Massachusetts)confided in me over the weekend that she’s “fed up” with the man.
There IS hope.
Change in 2010-2012.