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Half of Americans Approve of Obama's Handling of Libya
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyPresident Obama's handling of Libya gets the approval of half of Americans who have an opinion on it (and about one-fifth do not), despite criticism from right, left and abroad, according to a CBS News poll conducted March 18-21. (Poll data here.) Critics say the administration waited too long to act or, once it did, took military action whose goals were not as defined as Obama had said they would be. Fifty percent said they approved of Obama's handling of the situation, 29 percent disapproved, while 21 percent expressed no opinion. Obama does better when it comes to ratings on his ...
Republicans Losing Their Advantage on How to Handle the Deficit, Poll Finds
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA new poll released Wednesday echoes what a Washington Post/ABC News poll reported a day earlier: President Obama doesn't get good marks for his handling of issues involving the economy, but faith in Republicans doing a better job has slipped. While the way the questions were framed in the Post/ABC News poll was different from the one by the Pew Research Center -- the Post/ABC survey focused on the economy in general and the Pew poll focused on dealing with the deficit -- the results point to a similar trend suggesting a drop in enthusiasm for Republican policies since the party won big in ...
Poll Shows Faith in Government Plummets; Warning Signs for Republicans Emerge
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyWhile voters may have vented their anger at Washington in last year's elections and altered the balance of power, the public at large is no happier now with the way government is working, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted March 10-13. Almost half of those surveyed -- 49 percent -- express uncertainty about "our system of government and how well it works" and what it portends for the future. Twenty-six percent said they were optimistic about how well the system of government would serve the nation and 23 percent were pessimistic, with 7 percent undecided. The 26 percent ...
Obama's 2010 Job Approval Rating Dropped 10 Points or More in 31 States
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyPresident Obama's average job-approval rating for his second year in office was 47 percent, down 11 points from the 58 percent he enjoyed in 2009, according to Gallup. But another way to illustrate that drop is to look at his approval rating by state, and Gallup's surveys show that Obama tumbled by 10 points or more in 31 states. His biggest drops were in Vermont (15.2 points), Arizona (14.5 points), Kentucky (14.2 points) Missouri (14.1 points) and Utah (14 points). Obama had carried Vermont in 2008 by more than 2-to-1, but lost to John McCain in the other four (although in Missouri, McCain ...
Obama Poll Ratings Show Some Gains in Key States, but He's Not Out of the Woods
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyDuring last year's elections, when polls were showing things headed south for many Democrats in key battleground states like Pennsylvania and Ohio, they also included warning signs for President Obama and his reelection chances in 2012. In a new set of polls, Obama's numbers in those two swing states, which were looking troublesome last summer, have improved, just as his standings in national polls have risen recently. However, that rebound does not return him to the point where it could be said he has regained the kind of strength he had in 2008. Surveys this month and last by Quinnipiac ...
Poll Shows Big Partisan Divides on Obama's Handling of Key Issues
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA Gallup study released last week reported that President Obama was a far more polarizing force during his second year in office compared to any chief executive at that point in their terms since 1953 (the poll measured the gap between the approval ratings he got from Democrats and Republicans). Now, a new Gallup poll puts some flesh on the bones of that overall finding by showing the partisan gaps that exist on Obama's handling of specific issues. Health care was the most polarizing issue, with a 61-point gap between Democrats who approved of Obama's performance and Republicans who didn't, ...
Obama's Second Year Widened the Partisan Divide on How He Is Seen
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyEven some of Sarah Palin's supporters might concede she is a polarizing figure. But she gets some stiff competition on that score from President Obama. For a chief executive in the second year in office, he had a wider divide between how the two major political parties see him than any chief executive dating back to Dwight Eisenhower during comparable points in their terms, according to Gallup's numbers for 2010. Democrats approved of the job Obama was doing by 81 percent last year compared to 13 percent for Republicans, a gap of 68 points. That was significantly above the "party gap" for ...
Obama's Job Approval Continues to Rise in Latest Poll, Thanks to Independents
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyMost recent polls have shown President Barack Obama's job approval ratings moving up slowly and surely to the magic 50 percent mark, or even a little beyond. In many surveys last year they had fallen to the mid-40s. A new CNN/Opinion Research poll, released a day before Obama gives his State of the Union Address, now has his approval rating at 55 percent. Last week, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, conducted Jan. 13-17, said those surveyed approved of Obama's performance by a 53 percent to 41 percent margin -- a jump of eight points since December in those who approved of the job he was ...
The People's State of the Union: Giving Congress a Piece of Their Mind
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyBarack Obama's 2011 State of the Union address on Tuesday will cover familiar ground: the economy, the war, the need for bipartisanship. But below is a different kind of report -- distilled from opinion polls over the last 12 months about what the American public says it thinks (if, of course, the pollsters can be trusted). If it were the topic of the address this Tuesday, here are the major talking points lawmakers and political leaders would hear: We don't like you and think it's been a long time since you did a good job. When Gallup averaged its poll numbers for the 2009-2010 session ...
AP Poll: New Low for Obama's Handling of Economy
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 18) -- President Barack Obama earned his lowest marks ever on his handling of the economy in a new Associated Press-GfK poll, which also found that an overwhelming majority of Americans now describe the nation's financial outlook as poor. A frustrated electorate could take it out on the party in power - Obama's Democrats - in the November elections. Eleven weeks before the Nov. 2 balloting, just 41 percent of those surveyed approve of the president's performance on the economy, down from 44 percent in April, while 56 percent disapprove. And 61 percent say the economy has ...
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