Is Obama Less Popular Than on Election Day?

[babylonsister]

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August 05, 2009

Is Obama Less Popular Than on Election Day?


Tom Jensen looks at President Obama's falling approval numbers and concludes "he's popular with those who voted for him and not with those who didn't."

That level of approval won him 365 electoral votes.

"Some people who didn't vote for Obama may have expressed approval for him in the early days of his term because they felt like they needed to give a new President a chance, but the reality is that Obama is setting out to do what he said he was going to do when he got elected, so if you didn't like what you heard last fall you inevitably were going to end up not liking what you heard when he started governing. The higher levels of approval he initially showed, particularly from Republicans, were inevitable going to fall."

[Cha]

1. Especially as the "republicans" keep listening to

hateradio, fauxsn00ze, and reptillian feed on corporatemedia outlets like cnn and getting their brains soaked with vicious negative shite.

[Jennicut]

2. Gallup has him at 56% today, he was elected with a 52.9%

So that tells me the people who voted for him are for the most part with him and he even has some independents with him.

[redqueen]

10. More independents, yes.

Bad news for the gloom and doom set.

[slackmaster]

3. What difference does it really make?

He's still the President.

[babylonsister]

4. Most of the pollsters and rethugs are trying to make his poll

numbers an issue. This pretty much says they're full of it.

[uponit7771]

5. Relatively speaking he's above par in approval ratings, he's doin pretty good

[Peacetrain]

6. I think he is actually tracking higher in Gallup

[Clio the Leo]

7. His personaly approval rating was almost 10 points higher.....

... in June than it was on election day.

[Robbins]

8. Remember

The 53 percent of voters who voted for him still support him according to credable polls(meaning all non RAS) plus Gallup,Time,
CBS/NYTimes all show a small number of Mccain voters like how Is doing his job.These are probally among the moderate wing of Mccain
voters who are not crazy.Also Gallup,Time,and CBS/NYTimes are not Liberal organizations despite what some will say.

[question everything]

9. Probably, as any other President would

During the campaigns there were a lot of promises and, yes, rhetorics. Now that he went to work, things have to come down to earth.

Anyone who is "disappointed with him" because the facts on the ground are different is going to have problems going through life.