CBS News Poll: Obama’s Approval Drops to 46%
Jan 12th, 2010 | 29 responses
For President Barack Obama and the beset — and worried — Democratic party, the latest CBS News poll now has Obama in the danger zone.
It has his approval rating at 46 percent — below the “magical” 50 percent mark. Political scientists and experts often note that if a President’s approval rating is less than 50 percent going into mid-terms, then the party is in for a major shellacking.
If this poll holds up, it looks as if Home Depot will have to re-order some shellac come November:
President Obama’s job approval rating has fallen to 46 percent, according to a new CBS News poll.
That rating is Mr. Obama’s lowest yet in CBS News polling, and the poll marks the first time his approval rating has fallen below the 50 percent mark. Forty-one percent now say they disapprove of Mr. Obama’s performance as president.
In last month’s CBS News poll, 50 percent of Americans approved of how the president was handling his job, while thirty-nine percent disapproved.
Mr. Obama still receives strong support from Democrats (eight in ten approve of his performance), but his approval rating among Republicans is only 13 percent. More importantly, Mr. Obama’s approval rating among independents has declined 10 points in recent months – and it now stands at just 42 percent.
Domestic issues – and not his response to terrorist threats – appear to be driving the president’s approval rating downward.
Just 41 percent now approve of his handling of the economy, which Americans say is the nation’s most pressing issue. Forty-seven percent disapprove. The president’s marks on handling health care, with reforms still under debate in Congress, are even lower – just 36 percent approve, while 54 percent disapprove. Both of these approval ratings are the lowest of Mr. Obama’s presidency.
The poll also found:
In the poll, 57 percent of Americans approve of the way the Obama administration has responded to the attempted attack, and 29 percent disapprove. Views are highly partisan – 75 percent of Democrats approve, while just 41 percent of Republicans and 55 percent of independents do.
29 Responses to “CBS News Poll: Obama’s Approval Drops to 46%”
See, the thing is..
Even if people are temporarily dissatisfied with Obama, that doesn't “therefore” = a net gain for the GOP. It just means that they're dissatisfied. My guess is that voters will still know how to choose between the lesser of two evils..so candidates with souls and track-records to back that up will be just fine.
Danger or not, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Otherwise he has no convictions.
President Obama is an excellent President courageously doing the right things under heavy pressure. In the end, the country knows this.
Oh noes! Right after the lefties had put together a major offensive to belittle and attack Rasmussen, along comes CBS and confirms the 46% approval.
For comparison purposes, George W Bush had an approval rating of 84% in his second January in office. Of course that was on Gallup which still has Obama at a whopping 49%.
Obama has a problem, his administration has a problem, and the Congressional Dems have a problem.
Health care hopefully taught them at least some lessons. Perhaps these polls will teach them, too.
We'll see if they learn and give us New and Improved behavior between now and November.
“Fix the economy”: Will they actually try a serious stimulus this time, or just shallow quick-vote-buying gimmicks, or just more of the worse stuff they already threw at us? Will we see more, new, higher taxes instead? Can't blame Bush for anything now, and can't blame the banks for everything…
I do think it is important to note that although his approval rate is dropping into dangerous territory, until the republicans are able to offer their own plan…they aren't going to win elections. They have the opportunity, but don't seem ready to take it quite yet.
Yet amazingly (to me) Rasmussen says 51% of the country still primarily blames Bush for our economic woes. That was published just last week. I can understand that partisan Democrats would/will continue to blame Bush forever for the economy, just as Republicans would if the situation were reversed, but 51% is an impressive number.
Republicans have done an absolutely dismal job of hammering home the point that 2007 was a major turning point, when the Democrats took Congress. The economy began to unravel within a year. Add to that Bush's flawed and clumsy decisions on bailouts (TARP, GM, Chrysler, etc) and we have bipartisan failure now for 3 years with no end in sight. The silver lining in a very dark cloud for Republicans is that the Bush culpability is bound to recede over time. And that the Democrats in Congress, inexplicably to me, seem absolutely hell-bent on continuing to make things worse.
“Yet amazingly (to me) Rasmussen says 51% of the country still primarily blames Bush for our economic woes.”
There's a lower half of the bell curve, of the population, of intelligence distribution, by definition. [scowl]
“the Democrats in Congress, inexplicably to me, seem absolutely hell-bent on continuing to make things worse”
What's surprising isn't so much that they overreached and lurched leftward so much, so early (and behaved as though they completely misinterpreted the election in 2008, as well as what the maintream expects), but that they proceeded to behave worse in this way, not better. (Hence the failure of particular note with health care “reform,” and the still-unanswered questions about how they will choose to try to recover from that, and if they have finally learned the obvious.)
“until the republicans are able to offer their own plan…they aren't going to win elections”.
Although my sample is small, it has more substance than your totally unsupported conjecture….of 3 notable elections to date, Republican candidates won 2 out of 3…..with the third being less than a one on one matchup.
And why, pray tell, is Scott Brown even within 30 points of Coakley when Massachusetts went something like 2/3s for Obama? And Scott Brown has certainly not hid the fact he would vote against Obamacare if elected.
Every day that passes, liberals have less and less support to claim they have support for their agenda.
The fact that Sil has demoted Obama from Messiah to “lesser of the evils” in a year's time says it all.
Well, all of you nay-sayers will eat crow in the end. Why? Because President Obama is not an absolute imbecile like dubya. It’s an easy act to follow.
This crow pantry page is marked for future.
Health care “reform” has seriously damaged them and now on to Cap and Tax, and the crown jewel of Amnesty. And maybe add in DADT. They are busily servicing key constituencies, business as usual, while a growing part of the country is in near open revolt politically.
They could yet be saved by a major economic turnaround this year but that's betting on an inside straight. The idea that people will come streaming back in joy when ObamaCare is forced through Congress seems like a meme surreptitiously planted at the DNC by Karl Rove.
mmmm, crow
A favorite dish served at Fitzmas, as I recall.
FatherCrow, I mean Father Time, “This crow pantry page is marked for future.” that was truly funny. You join other wits on this thread.
Thanks.
dr.e
“The fact that Sil has demoted Obama from Messiah to “lesser of the evils” in a year's time says it all.”
~casualobserver
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If you've been here long enough you will remember that I fought for HIllary over Obama and only begrudgingly accepted his candidacy in the end in November 2008. However, I'm not a big fan of cutting off my nose to spite my face. I don't wish for this administration to fail since I AM this administration, just like you are and all the other citizens in the US. I have never had any misunderstanding about Obama's status as a mere human and it is for this reason that I encourage support of him. If he was a demi-god we'd have no worries at all right?
Still, all the pokes and retorts don't change the fact that when push comes to shove, voters will remember 9-11…and not for the reasons the GOP is hoping.
..more on that in the near future..
Remember now casual, Sil was on board the PUMA train in the beginning and constantly warned us about those scandalous tapes that were supposed to surface. Then she went on advocating Obama step down in 2012 to allow for Hillary to assume the job. Perhaps she's just jumping ship now to provide a little cover for herself. It will be mildly entertaining to hear the spin she uses if Obama stumbles down into Dubya territory.
President Obama is not an absolute imbecile like dubya.
Well no, not absolute anyway.
“Health care “reform” has seriously damaged them and now on to Cap and Tax, and the crown jewel of Amnesty. And maybe add in DADT.”
Card-check! Card-check! Card-check! Card-check! …
Actually, that may be still deferred, given Big Labor's being upset about taxing Cadillac health insurance.
(The unions are greedy and resentful, from expecting too much, but they also have a good point, as do all of us critics of the “Cadillac” tax. It's counterintuitive and deliberately illogical for liberals like ObamaCo and the Congre-Dems to have a history of demanding lavish minimum benefits packages in state health insurance laws and regulations, and to say that care is insufficient and not elaborate and thorough and comprehensive enough (generous definition of “basic” and “preventive” care), and at the same time starting to say that some plans are “too lavish” and encourage “overuse” of health care services. (They're just scrambling to find ways to levy or increase taxes, as well as flounder in a schizoid way possibly at a radical egalitarian gesture in this case.)
“people will come streaming back in joy when ObamaCare is forced through Congress”
[grin]
The subset most likely to behave this way is the farthest left, who is among the dissatisfied on the far left with the compromise and down-scaling and reduced ambition as well as scope of the emerging final health care “reform” legislation. (“They didn't just whittle away some excess, or gently nick the bone as well as cut away fat — they took a chainsaw to this thing, and left us not with a log but with a toothpick!”)
ah, card check indeed, based on the Democrat's proposition that workers cannot be trusted with democracy and the secret ballot, only with paying the dues that follow coerced sign ups.
That will expose an interesting split between unions and the yuppies at MoveOn.
“card check indeed”
It may never happen now. (I would have liked to have attended the meeting Obama had with one or more top union people. Of course, what Obama really will do isn't necessarily what he said to them.)
Interestingly, I wonder what Congress would be like if its legislative votes were made by secret ballot.
Ummm, 9/11/01 had an effect, I think. Even then, I heard people carp about W
Me too. I remember thinking; “oh crap we may be entering WWIII and our president is a jackass of the silver spoon fed bumpkin type”. I shat myself for weeks.
I guess it is good that politics keeps the reality of politics out of knowing from promising politicians without that we would not have any politicians to hold our fleeting hopes for this country and lives of its citizens. . .
What a shame, he used to claim to soar with eagles, now he's a crow cooker. Probably, he's been a pigeon of the Dems (oops, Social Capitalists) for too long.
Too oily to tell.
Interestingly, the last that I heard, the secret ballot was favored by both businesses and most union workers. The issue does a good job of exposing who the Democrats are really beholden to.
Careful. Crow's feet and hand-grenade Duck are delicacies somewhere on earth.
That would be divided government with neither party in control of both Congress and the Whitehouse.
I mean that situation did balance the budget once.
Ha.
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