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Obama approval holding steady

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Anonymous

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September 18, 2009
CNN Poll of Polls: Obama approval holding steady
Posted: September 18th, 2009 12:08 PM ET

From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser


WASHINGTON (CNN) – President Barack Obama's approval rating is holding steady in the mid-50's, according to a new CNN Poll of Polls.

Fifty-five percent of Americans approve of how Obama's handling his duties in the White House, according to the CNN Poll of Polls, which averaged the six national surveys taken since the president addressed a joint session of Congress on September 9. Thirty-nine percent, on average, disapprove.

The 55 percent approval rating is almost identical to the 54 percent mark that Obama had in August, according to an average of national surveys conducted last month. "The early part of the summer was a bad time for Obama, whose average approval dropped 7 points during that period. But since then, his average approval rating has stabilized in the mid 50s," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

Protests at health care town halls held by members of Congress in their home states and districts received a lot of attention in the news media in August and early September. Many of those demonstrations were directed against the President and his proposals on health care reform.


"It looks like the town hall protests in August didn't drive his ratings down, but it also looks like his nationally televised speech didn't do much to push his ratings up," Holland says.

So how does Obama's 55 percent approval rating stack up to his predecessors in the September of their first year in office?

That mark puts him substantially ahead of Bill Clinton and right in the same ballpark as Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon, says Holland. "Obama is well behind both Bushes, but bear in mind that George W. Bush's mid-September ratings for 2001 were affected by 9/11," he says. "It's impossible to say what his approval rating would have been if 9/11 had not occurred, but the best guess is that Bush would have probably been in the mid-to-low 50s."

This latest CNN "Poll of Polls" consists of the six surveys conducted since Obama's speech to Congress on September 9: Fox News (Sept. 15-16), Pew (September 10-15), Bloomberg (September 10-14), CNN/Opinion Research (Sept. 11-13), USA Today/Gallup (Sept. 11-13) and ABC/Washington Post (Sept. 10-12). The Poll of Polls does not have a sampling error.
 

Whitewing

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:D
 

hypocritexposer

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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 31% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -9 (see trends).
 

commonsense

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Now we get to play who has a bigger poll. The only thing one can tell from EVERY poll posted is never has a president dropped as quickly as Obama has. This very well might be a dead cat bounce if anything. He has recently went from screwing things up inside America to now screwing up overseas.
 
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Gallup 9/16 - 9/19 Approve 52 Disapprove 42 +10
FOX News 9/15 - Approve 54 Disapprove 39 +15
Democracy Corps (D) 9/12 - 9/16 Approve 52 Disapprove 41 +11
Pew Research 9/10 - 9/15 Approve 55 Disappove 33 +22
USA Today/Gallup 9/11 - 9/13 Approve 54 Disapprove 43 +11
CNN/Opinion Research 9/11 - 9/13 Approve 58 Disapprove 40 +18


Obamas approval rating on Nov 11( the poll that counts) was 53% to 46%-- since then at one time (on Feb 15) his approval rating went as high as 65%-- but is now down to 55%- which is still higher than it was on Nov 11th....
 

Buckeye

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Oldtimer said:
Gallup 9/16 - 9/19 Approve 52 Disapprove 42 +10
FOX News 9/15 - Approve 54 Disapprove 39 +15
Democracy Corps (D) 9/12 - 9/16 Approve 52 Disapprove 41 +11
Pew Research 9/10 - 9/15 Approve 55 Disappove 33 +22
USA Today/Gallup 9/11 - 9/13 Approve 54 Disapprove 43 +11
CNN/Opinion Research 9/11 - 9/13 Approve 58 Disapprove 40 +18


Obamas approval rating on Nov 11( the poll that counts) was 53% to 46%-- since then at one time (on Feb 15) his approval rating went as high as 65%-- but is now down to 55%- which is still higher than it was on Nov 11th....
Well, those sure are some numbers to be proud of. Have you checked the "strongly" approve/disapprove numbers?

Why did you leave out Rasmussen, BTW? They're unquestionably the most accurate pollsters out there.
 

Steve

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Buckeye said:
Oldtimer said:
Gallup 9/16 - 9/19 Approve 52 Disapprove 42 +10
FOX News 9/15 - Approve 54 Disapprove 39 +15
Democracy Corps (D) 9/12 - 9/16 Approve 52 Disapprove 41 +11
Pew Research 9/10 - 9/15 Approve 55 Disappove 33 +22
USA Today/Gallup 9/11 - 9/13 Approve 54 Disapprove 43 +11
CNN/Opinion Research 9/11 - 9/13 Approve 58 Disapprove 40 +18


Obamas approval rating on Nov 11( the poll that counts) was 53% to 46%-- since then at one time (on Feb 15) his approval rating went as high as 65%-- but is now down to 55%- which is still higher than it was on Nov 11th....
Well, those sure are some numbers to be proud of. Have you checked the "strongly" approve/disapprove numbers?

Why did you leave out Rasmussen, BTW? They're unquestionably the most accurate pollsters out there.

Overall, 49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Fifty (50%) now disapprove
 
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