Thread: Obama's Core Approval Rate Dives to -12 !!!

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 28% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -12. The Approval Index rating has been lower only on two days since the current President took office (see trends).

The President’s plan for sending $250 to senior citizens gets mixed reviews from the public. Fifty percent (50%) like the idea, but support falls to 41% when the price tag is mentioned. Seniors are less enthusiastic about it than younger adults.

Forty-four percent (44%) have confidence in the stability of the U.S. banking system, 50% do not. Seventy-eight percent (78%) say that Wall Street has benefited more than taxpayers from the bank bailouts.

The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates also available on Twitter and Facebook.

Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Fifty percent (52%) disapprove.

In Illinois, the race for Barack Obama’s Senate seat is a toss-up.

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Support for the health care plan proposed by the President and Congressional Democrats is down to 42%. Fifty-four percent (54%) are opposed.

In a very early look at the 2012 race to challenge Obama, Mike Huckabee leads the pack and is trailed by Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin. In a head-to-head match-up, Huckabee leads Romney by five. Romney and Huckabee both lead Sarah Palin in head-to-head match-ups.

Scott Rasmussen has recently had three analysis columns published in the Wall Street Journal. The most recent was on health care. Earlier columns were on the President's approval ratings and how Obama won the White House by campaigning like Ronald Reagan. If you'd like Scott Rasmussen to speak at your meeting, retreat, or conference, contact Premiere Speakers Bureau. You can also learn about Scott's favorite place on earth or his time working with hockey legend Gordie Howe.

It is important to remember that the Rasmussen Reports job approval ratings are based upon a sample of likely voters. Some other firms base their approval ratings on samples of all adults. President Obama's numbers are always several points higher in a poll of adults rather than likely voters. That's because some of the President's most enthusiastic supporters, such as young adults, are less likely to turn out to vote.

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Rasmussen Reports has been a pioneer in the use of automated telephone polling techniques, but many other firms still utilize their own operator-assisted technology (see methodology).

Pollster.com founder Mark Blumenthal noted that “independent analyses from the National Council on Public Polls, the American Association for Public Opinion Research, the Pew Research Center, the Wall Street Journal and FiveThirtyEight.com have all shown that the horse-race numbers produced by automated telephone surveys did at least as well as those from conventional live-interviewer surveys in predicting election outcomes.â€

Wow!

I'm surprised it's not even LOWER!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by American-ized

I'm surprised it's not even LOWER!!!!!!!!!

It will!

Originally Posted by American-ized

I'm surprised it's not even LOWER!!!!!!!!!

Me too! I am sure it will take another dive soon!!

They called me this weekend and I was part of the poll.

Come on 45%! It looks like the new low mark we need him to hit on his approval ratings is 45%

All it should take is for us to get more people online and more people in the media talking about Obama's plan to create his hidden and silent unlawful Amnesty for illegal aliens and to push an amnesty bill!

Once he gets into the 30% range he will be a lame duck and much less likely to be able to cause more harm to America on behalf of his Globalist masters.

W

I signed up for the Rasmussen's alert -so I can follow this everyday. You can go to a link to see the trends history as well.


http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... ex_history

On 6/30 it went into the negatives and never hit the positive level since then. The lowest it's hit is -14.

Originally Posted by Mayday

They called me this weekend and I was part of the poll.

Cool!

Of the 28% that strongly approve I wonder how many times the same people in San francisco have been polled?