Obama’s Ever-New Low

June 16th, 2010 (12) Posted By Erik Wong.

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Rasmussen:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 24% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20 (see trends).

Forty-eight percent (48%) of Democrats Strongly Approve while 75% of Republicans Strongly Disapprove. Among those not affiliated with either major party, 12% Strongly Approve and 52% Strongly Disapprove.

These results are based upon nightly telephone interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. As a result, today’s results are based almost entirely on interviews conducted before the president’s speech to the nation. The impact of the president’s speech will be seen over the next several days.

Heading into the speech, 30% of voters gave President Obama good or excellent marks for handling the oil spill. Forty-five percent (45%) said he was doing a poor job. Most voters (57%) still favor offshore oil drilling.

On another topic, most Americans (53%) continue to believe the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler was a bad idea.

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 are also available on Twitter and Facebook.

Overall, 42% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance. That’s the lowest level of approval yet recorded for this president. Fifty-seven percent (57%) now disapprove. Those are the lowest ratings yet recorded for this president. The president’s approval rating has held steady in the 46% – 47% range for six months and it remains to be seen whether this new low is merely statistical noise or the start of a lasting change.

The Rasmussen Reports Media Meter shows that media coverage of President Obama has been 41% positive over the past week. Since the passage of the health care law, coverage has ranged from a high of 60% positive to a low of 39% positive.

New state polling shows that Republicans are ahead in both the Colorado and South Dakota races for Governor.

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  • Cold Soldier

    “barrak be nimble, barrak be quick, barrak go under limbo stick, every limbo boy and girl, all around the limo world…how low can you go?…hopefully alot lower…MF’er :twisted: :gun:

    • YERMOM

      :beer: :beer: :beer:

    • David

      The only problem is that turds float. This turd needs to be flushed. Let’s all push the flush handle in 2012.

  • The Sentinel at the Gate

    I’d love to see it go negative, but I don’t think that’s possible; especially in Democratic numbers.

    • copperpeony

      I want to see it go -50, as it will soon enough. Insane Hussein is out of control.

  • Ty

    What could the media possibly have found to cover the President in a positive light over the past week? There’s part of your problem right there. Imagine if The Messiah had the media cover him in the same manner that they treated Bush…

  • richwill

    Nice to have seen some good news for a change. My hopey/changey is to have Hussein disappear.

  • Adam

    Did you remove my post? :!:

  • tahDeetz

    Greatest. Douche. Evah.

    tD

  • josephus

    Float like a rock, baby.

  • Ohnooo

    Oh they’ll create some planned catastrophe to try and bring his numbers up…probably some Republican or tea partier gone mad at an event scenario, something with guns where an innocent black momma or illegal Mexican and her babies are killed..something along those lines…

  • Phil Byler

    It will steadily get worse, and then a foreign policy crisis will cause it to go through the floor.