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Obama’s approval numbers drop into the 30s in latest polls

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CNN Poll: Obama Approval Ratings 'Underwater'

Wednesday, 04 Jun 2014 10:39 AM
By Joe Battaglia

Citing the latest poll numbers, CNN's John King called President Obama's approval ratings "underwater" and "stuck in a rut."

Speaking on "New Day," King found few positives in the president's approval rating of 43 percent and disapproval rating of 53 percent in the most recent CNN poll.



"We went through 12 different issues in the president’s approval rating, and he didn’t crack 50 [percent], he could not crack 50 on any of those," King said, adding that those numbers could be troubling for Democrats as the president's approval usually serves as the "North Star of a midterm election year."

National Journal columnist Ron Fournier, another guest on the show, suggested that most of Obama's disapproval comes from the economy and problems of credibility, while The Washington Post's Nia Malika-Henderson added that "people seem to think that he’s increasingly not an effective manager."

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Obama’s Popularity Drops In U.S. As It Increases In The Arab World

June 4, 2014 by Ben Bullard

A new CNN poll out Tuesday demonstrates a continuing decline in President Barack Obama’s policy approval rating across nearly all American demographic categories.
Obama’s general disapproval rating debuted at 23 percent in February of 2009, but shot to 50 percent for the first time in December of that year, outpacing his approval rating (48 percent) for the first time. After reaching a historic high of 56 percent (compared with an approval rating of 41 percent) for consecutive months late last year, Obama’s disapproval rating now sits stagnantly at 55 percent (compared with his current 43 percent approval rating).
As Breitbart observed Wednesday, it’s not just that Obama’s approval rating stinks – it’s that key demographics coveted by progressives have turned on him:

On no single issue does a majority of Americans approve of Obama’s position. On many important issues, e.g. health care, immigration and foreign policy, his approval ratings have reached new lows. Perhaps surprisingly, however, his approval ratings are worst among America’s working class…
It should be noted that Obama’s approval ratings have collapsed across the issues, not just with this sub-group. On voters’ top issue, the economy, 61% of voters disapprove of Obama’s performance. Just 38% approve. Obama’s numbers are 7 points worse than they were on the eve of the GOP landslide in 2010. His approval ratings on health care, illegal immigration, gun policy and the federal deficit have all reached new lows, with Obama’s approval mired in the 30s. On the deficit, 67% of voters disapprove of Obama.
As bad as these numbers are, they are worse among America’s working class voters. On every issue, Obama receives lower marks from those earning less than $50k and those who never attended college than the general population. A staggering 67% of those who didn’t attend college disapprove of Obama’s handling of the economy, for example. 69% disapprove of his handling of health care.

You can view the full findings in the CNN poll here.
At the same time, Obama’s standing among residents of Arab countries as well as the disputed Palestinian territory, has improved by an order of magnitude in recent years, according to a new report from Zogby Research Services, a K Street consulting firm.
Polling residents of seven Middle Eastern territories – Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Palestinian territories (which the survey treats as its own sovereign entity) – Zogby saw dramatic gains in opinion for Obama. “Despite the persistence of negative attitudes toward several U.S. policies in the Arab World, there has been an uptick in U.S. favorable ratings in some Arab countries and an increase in Arab support for President Obama in all countries,” the study’s summary asserts.
That includes a massive jump in Egypt (three percent approval for Obama in 2011, compared with 34 percent today), as well as double-digit gains in nearly every other Arab state.
Unsurprisingly, occupants of the area at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict found the Obama Administration to be far more even-handed in its diplomatic temperament than residents in other parts of the Middle East:

When assessing the United States’ efforts to negotiate a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, overwhelming majorities in every country reject the notion that the United States has been even-handed in these negotiations. It is worth noting that while more than eight in ten respondents in Jordan (88%), Morocco (88%), Lebanon (84%), and Egypt (82%) express this view, Palestinians (and Arabs in the Emirates) are less inclined to be negative. Among Palestinians 30% say the United States has been even-handed (along with 31% of those in the UAE), and 57% say they are not confident in U.S. fairness in the negotiations.

Still, Obama has a ways to go before he’s regarded as favorably among Arabs as Bill Clinton, whom the survey describes as “far and away…the most positive U.S. president in recent history.”


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Obama is less competent than George Bush, say a plurality of Americans
With President Obama's approval rating still deep underwater, a new survey from...
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Obama is less competent than George Bush, say a plurality of Americans

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With President Obama's approval rating still deep underwater, a new survey from Fox News finds that Americans generally think George W. Bush ran a more "competent" administration. In the survey, a 48 percent plurality said Bush's White House was more competent, while 42 percent picked Obama's.
At the same time, fully two-thirds of Americans said Bill Clinton's administration was more competent than Obama's, versus only 18 percent who liked Obama's better.
-- Jon Terbush

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Majority Believes Obama Administration ‘Less Competent’ Than Bush, Clinton

June 6, 2014 by Ben Bullard

PHOTOS.COM

A majority of Americans believe the Obama Administration is a less competent occupant of the White House than either of President Barack Obama’s two Presidential forebears: one a Democrat; the other a Republican.
In a wide-ranging phone poll of 1,000 registered voters conducted over the first three days of June, FOX News found that, on the heels of the Veterans Affairs hospital scandal and the controversial exchange of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban detainees, the Obama Administration’s standing among Americans generally has taken a substantial hit.
Asked whether the Obama Administration has made America stronger or weaker, 55 percent of all respondents replied “weaker,” compared with 35 percent who felt the Nation has become stronger under Obama.
That sentiment carried over into questions about the Obama Administration’s comparative strength alongside the Administration of his immediate predecessor, President George W. Bush, as well as that of President Bill Clinton — Obama’s last Democratic successor in the White House.
Overall, 48 percent believed the Obama White House is “less competent” than the Bush White House, while 42 percent disagreed. And, in an evident indication that Americans continue to hold the Bush Administration in low esteem, even more people believe Obama’s White House leadership to be incompetent when compared with Clinton.
A full 68 percent believe the Obama Administration is less competent than the Clinton Administration, with only 18 percent weighing in in favor of Obama.
And, even though much of the controversy surrounding the Bergdahl release had yet to metastasize at the time the poll was conducted, more people — 47 percent — indicated their disapproval for the Bergdahl-Taliban prisoner swap than the 45 percent who approved.
Additionally, the Bergdahl story — at least in the early going — had failed to focus public attention away from the broad Veterans Affairs scandal. Seventy-eight percent of those polled said they were following the VA mismanagement story either “very” closely (45 percent) or “somewhat” closely (33 percent), while half believed prisoners at Guantanamo Bay receive better healthcare than that received by U.S. veterans. And 59 percent said they disapprove of how the Obama Administration had handled the VA scandal; only 29 percent approved.
Obama’s 54 percent overall disapproval rating nearly matches his all-time high of 55 percent disapproval, which he reached in November of last year. His current approval rating, however, matches the 40 percent he received in that iteration of the poll.

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