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Obama's Poll Numbers Are on the Rise
By David Knowles - AOL News(Feb. 1) – After months of declining poll numbers, President Barack Obama's approval rating has begun rising again. Two new polls, one by Rasmussen Reports and the other by Gallup, show a recent uptick of support for the president as he begins his second year in office. In its daily tracking poll, Gallup finds that 50 percent of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling his job, while 44 percent say they disapprove. According to the polling organization, the rise in the approval number "follows 11 straight days of Gallup reporting in which Obama's approval rating was below the ...
Obama's Approval Numbers More Polarized than Bush's
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyA new poll out from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press on President Barack Obama's job performance finds that the president is well on his way to becoming the most polarizing figure in recent U.S. presidential history. The Pew poll measured the partisan gap between Democratic and Republican respondents and finds a whopping 61 percent spread, the largest such gap for a first year president in forty years. President George W. Bush was a uniter in comparison to Obama, as his partisan gap was only 51 percent at the same point in his presidency.Overall, the poll finds a 59 percent ...
Gallup: Obama Approval Rating Way Up Among Republicans
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIn terms of his approval rating, it was a good week for President Barack Obama. Gallup puts his overall thumbs-up number at 67%, up slightly from just days earlier. What's startling, however, is the jump the president registered among Republicans, whose rating of Obama's overall performance rose by 15 points. My hunch is that Obama's address to Congress, as well as the president's promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, helped move moderate Republicans in his direction. Of course, as this poll shows, these numbers are fluid. Given the assault that right-leaning media ...
Bush Approval Rating Bad, Congress Worse
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyA new poll shows the President's approval rating at an all time low. Frustration from the most ardent Bush administration critics, members of the impeachment movement who can't understand why the Democrats don't go for what looks like easy meat politically, is at an all time high. But even Dennis Kucinich, who has introduced articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney, is looking to the future, advising the next President on how to handle the Bush Administration.Problem is, Congress's approval ratings are even lower than Bush's. They don't have the votes to over turn the ...
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