Obama's Job Approval Rises to 50 Percent in New Gallup Poll

Sometimes I have a feeling that the American public is being duped .... my family travels alot, probably 3/4 different cities a month, and every trip is different, and it's just not a fly in ... it's 2/3 days of walking and talking with the folks that live there because we own a small advertising company, so we talk with 200/300 hundred folks a week, times 4 family members.

Maybe Kansas City or perhaps Philadelphia, and the next time it could be Atlanta or maybe Milwaukee, and the next trip could be Columbus Ohio or Raleigh SC, etc, etc. .... and what we don't understand is, we're not finding folks agreeing with the President and we're certainly not finding Joe Public "approving" his actions more and more --- actually, we're finding more and more of the public *not approving* with the President, by vast numbers on a daily basis.

We just had a 3 hour discussion with 300+ folks at the Cleveland Airport waiting for their canceled flights due to snow --- except for 30 or 40 folks, the vast majority had little or no support for the President -- some had suits, some had boots.

I have a feeling the Gallup poll is more smoke and mirrors then anything else.


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All I have to say is: No One Asked me. I am not included in the 50% approval.

Obama's approval ratings always go up when he is away from his desk for any length of time because we can all relax for awhile and not worry about what he is going to do next. Seems people are still drinking some of that kool aid but it is starting to go rancid by now. We are not cutting taxes on your so called "wealthy" we are just leaving them as they are for 2 years so "get over it" and stop complaining as the schools and arts and other charities will continue to receive donations from the more affluent in our country. Remember 50% of Americans do not pay taxes AT ALL!

If the GOP decides Health Care must go, the billions in savings will go with it. There ARE substantial savings, and the GOP will have to figure out how to restore them or we will be worse off. Obama and Health Care is going to be the new congress's trip wire. With jobs number one on the voters horizon, and no GOP plan to address that, they are going to start quickly to look like they don't care about the voters while making the GOP their number one agenda. Bad times ahead for all of us.

After using the figures in your write up, I calculated Obama's approval rating at 48%. How do you calculate it?

Wow! all the anti-Obama are really great in giving their "very" intelligent opinion. I am an independent. The new health care law was done "in my opinion" not in a nice way. But the benefits are hard to ignore. Who would want to be deny of care base on your past condition? not me. And I don't want my kids either, simply because they are young and vulnerable. I am for lowering fees from ugly big banks especially if they were bailed out. I'm the in fence with the tax cuts for the rich. I'll be for it if they can promise new job hirings. But I doubt that will happen because running a business, like my own, it is more base on demands for services and goods rather than taxes. Any businessperson who worries calculating taxes rather than the entire business should not be in business at all. That meant that they simply suck doing business. DADT- I'm all for that. what else? Oh give him a failed grade when it comes to housing rescue/mortgage something. And as for him handling the economy, it remains to be seen but I'm doing much better than before. Better than Bush years actually. So that's my take on our "Commander in Chief".

Your ratings got up when you pass DADT, something long overdue. Your ratings go up when you give 9/11 responders the health care they deserve. Your ratings go up when you prevent taxes from going up on the middle class and so on and so forth... Obama is doing a fantastic job despite the obstructionist party on the right.

The bottom line is people with good jobs spend time with their families over the Christmas holidays. After all it is not he that killed our economy so that the rest of us couldn't afford to go on vacation with our kids, it was baby Bush!

You go Obama!!

Not for one minute do I believe this faux poll! Look when it was taken-during the Christmas New Year holiday! Gues it's another poll that was controlled by the DNC-and they exclusivelyanswered!!!

This is the worst leadership this nation has ever wrought. Gallup poll is biased by sampling errors and therefore useless. Unemployment, exorbitant healthcare costs, soaring debt, uncontrolled government spending, inflation, no jobs or manufacturing and corporate outsourcing everything but Obama's underwear. This nation is no longer America!

how can his ratings go up if he did not do anything but play golf. maybe the golf ball industry had to put on more employees to make more balls for he his game of golf is probably like his politics,, way out of line. lets get a president who knows what the hell is going on ,an not someb.s. artist who can not even read the right speech off a tele. prompter. his words are full of b.s.