Gallup Poll: Obama 68% Approval Rating But Another Poll Underscores Growing Opposition
A new Gallup Poll finds that President Barack Obama’s debut as President has netted him a 68 percent approval rating — the highest of the past 8 Presidents were were elected to their first term.
But a Rasmussen Reports poll finds approval lower — and the number of conservatives who are unhappy about Obama to be on the rise.
Gallup reports:
In the first Gallup Poll job approval rating of his administration, President Barack Obama receives a 68% approval rating from Americans.
Obama’s 68% approval score is on the high end of the range of initial job approval ratings Gallup has recorded for the previous eight presidents who were elected to their first term. The low percentage of Americans disapproving of his performance is fairly typical for new presidents — although Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both started with much higher public disapproval.
Most assuredly, Obama’s disapproval rating will rise and his approval rating will fall as he continues to make decisions that some disageee with and does what he has to do to turn campaign promises into reality. Still, it signifies he’s beginning with a great deal of clout and the backing of the bulk of the American people. Talk show hosts are included in the 12 percent.
Rasmussen Reports paints a different picture:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Approval Index for Saturday shows that 44% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing as President. Eighteen percent (18%) now Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +26. As President-elect and President his Approval Index ratings have stayed between +25 and +30 every day since December 2 (see trends).
The 44% who Strongly Approve is just a point below the highest rating for Obama as either President or President-elect. The 18% who Strongly Disapprove is the highest negative for Obama November 30. The number of political conservatives who Strongly Disapprove has increased from 29% on the morning of Inauguration Day to 34% today.
It has other findings Gallup polls haven’t shown:
Forty-nine percent (49%) of voters say that the President is more liberal than they are. Fifty-nine percent (59%) worry that Congress and the President will increase government spending too much while only 17% have the opposite concern and are more worried that the politicians will cut taxes too much.
Stay tuned.
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10 Responses to “Gallup Poll: Obama 68% Approval Rating But Another Poll Underscores Growing Opposition”
Don't forget Bushco (the administration that Obama's has just replaced under the umbrella of change) went out at something like a dismal 20% approval rating.
Certainly when tweaking the numbers as is always done depending on who is doing the polling, you'd have to mitigate with the 20% issue..; )
Considering the week long love-fest that the media has had with President Obama, I am surpirsed that it is not higher. Of course, considering that President Obama has not actually done anything yet, how can anyone be made. Also, if President Obama does have a failure, will the MSM actually have the nerve to mention it?
Just keep this in mind.
I find that polls tell us what people feel about an issue, they don't tell us what truths, or untruths, are behind these feelings.
With President Obama in office, Rush Limbo has a job for 4 more years and Limbo will be slobbering Machiavellian half-truths faster than you can say Bill O'Riley.
Well, I should expect political conservatives not to be big fans of Obama. Conservatives are, by and large, authoritarians who are unhappy that Obama has restored the rule of law to Washington and the primacy of the Constitution over the White House. The only conservative to remember Constitutional principles is Andrew Sullivan, and conservatives think he's a liberal for opposing Bush's excess.
Um, and people are basing their opinions of his performance on 24-72 hours in office?
Can't they at least give him a week, lol?
elrod,
It is hard to argue that the left is any less authoritarian than the right. Considering that universities are some of the hardest left places in the U.S. and have some of the most authoritarian leanings. Remember the forced reeducation at the University of Delaware? Remember the speech codes that are blatantly unconsitutional? Remember the University of Michigan being told that it cannot discriminated on the bases of race?
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