CNN Poll: 54 percent approve of Obama

[47of74]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) -- One year after he won a historical presidential election, a slight majority of Americans approve of the job Barack Obama's doing in the White House.

Fifty-four percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday approve of how Obama is handling his duties as president, with 45 percent saying they disapprove.

"Obama's approval rating of 54 percent is nearly identical to the 53 percent of the vote he won a year ago," notes CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "And in nearly every demographic category, the percent that approve of Obama today is within two to three points of the percent who voted for him in 2008. It's a different story when we turn to ideology. His approval rating among liberals is 7 points higher than the number of liberals who voted for him. But among conservatives, the number who like Obama today is down 10 points compared to his share of the vote among that group in 2008."

The survey suggests that the president's approval rating remains over 50 percent even though most Americans disapprove of how Obama is handling the economy, health care, Afghanistan, Iraq, unemployment, illegal immigration and the federal budget deficit.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/03/obama.poll/index.html

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I wonder how the reich wing is going to spin this?

[Ian David]

1. That's pretty good, considering how many votes for him were just votes against Palin. n/t

[Doctor_J]

2. He needs to let Osama attack New York

Doing that saved Smirk's Residency

[47of74]

3. I was at the gym

And they got one of their TVs set to CNN. And they were talking about the approval ratings of the past several Presidents. Yeah, Schrub had about a 60 point bump over what he should've been.