The Official Obama Approval Ratings Thread

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CBS News:

57% Approve
32% Disapprove

This poll was conducted among a random sample of 944 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone July 9-12, 2009. Phone numbers were dialed from samples of both standard land-line and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher. This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_Obama_071309.pdf

CBS, washington polls  and NBC polls are always hack even Fox polls are pro democrats in the rates don't trust that sh**t ...

YARRGHH!

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CBS News:

57% Approve
32% Disapprove

This poll was conducted among a random sample of 944 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone July 9-12, 2009. Phone numbers were dialed from samples of both standard land-line and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher. This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_Obama_071309.pdf

Isn't 11% a bit high for undecided/not sure on a presidential job approval poll?

CBS is just pretty bad in general, so I wouldn't pay too much attention to this poll. They are also known for their always high amount of undecideds.

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Virginia (Rasmussen)

51% Approve
48% Disapprove

Hell I'm surprised he's still favored positively here at all.

Why?

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That's rather good for Obama in Texas, because Rasmussen had Obama at 51/52% approval nationally on July 15. Only 4-5% less compared with the nation is a nice showing.

That really doesn't square with his national polling at all. Whatever.

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The first 2 states from SurveyUSA's monthly tracking have been released:

Missouri

55% Approve (+4)
42% Disapprove (-3)

Kansas

41% Approve (-8)
53% Disapprove (+4)

http://www.kctv5.com/news/20146837/detail.html

Wacky changes.

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Given this economy, he was always going to drop below 50... it was inevitable. Although I must say I am surprised at both his honeymoon (the only President I really remember coming into office while I followed politics was George Bush, and he didn't really have much of a honeymoon, so this is the first "honeymoon" for me) and the speed at which it suddenly collapsed starting around mid June, about 5 months into his Presidency.

The question, as I believe someone pointed out several months ago, is when he gets back over 50.

He isn't under 50 on average yet but he probably will be in the not so distance future. I agree that your question is the right one though.

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Battleground Poll (The Tarrance Group and Lake Research Partners)

53% Approve (40% Strongly, DEM: 90-6, REP: 18-78, IND: 42-50)
42% Disapprove (37% Strongly)

Whether you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as President, what is your impression of Barack Obama as a person? Do you approve or disapprove of him?

72% Approve
20% Disapprove

Favorable Ratings:

Obama: 61% Favorable, 36% Unfavorable
Biden: 49% Favorable, 38% Unfavorable
Palin: 42% Favorable, 47% Unfavorable

Composition of sample: 42% DEM, 37% REP, 19% IND, 1% OTHER, 1% REFUSED

1000 Registered "Likely" Voters, July 19-23, 2009

The George Washington University Battleground Poll is a collaborative bi-partisan survey produced by Republican strategist Ed Goeas of The Tarrance Group and Democrat Celinda Lake of Lake Research Partners.

http://www.tarrance.com/BG-37-questionnaire.pdf

http://www.tarrance.com/Battleground37GOPAnalysisCharts.pdf

Wow, that is surprisingly... positive.

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He is now at his lowest approval from Gallup and his highest disapproval.

Does that get you hot?

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Gallup just released 50 states, but they are from January-June polling so I have no idea what to make of it. Pretty much meaningless numbers.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/122165/Obama-Approval-Highest-D.C.-Hawaii-Vermont.aspx

I concur, so I won't make any map about these. Polls from January to June might be rich in data but they would also be obsolete.

Oh, man. This is really cool to look at, I'll give them that.

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Support for congressional health care reform is pretty bad:

42% Support
53% Oppose

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/august_2009/support_for_congressional_health_care_reform_falls_to_new_low

Rasmussen will have it lower than anyone else, of course.

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Do you think Barack Obama was born in the United States?

54% Yes, 26% No

That's pretty embarassing considering the "Yes" is only a few points higher than the percentage that voted for him.

Don't forget than there is a part of the ''No'' who voted for Barack Obama. In the polls, there were always a part of the population who was ''I vote for Obama, but I think he is not born in America''.

That's the "well, I done had to vote for the n" crowd. They are an interesting lot.

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Illinois (Rasmussen)

56% Approve
42% Disapprove

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_state_toplines/illinois/toplines_illinois_senate_august_12_2009

According to Scott Rasmussen's off-year polling, he sure is.

Uh... WHAT? Obama's definitely in a bad state ATM.

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Illinois (Rasmussen)

56% Approve
42% Disapprove

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_state_toplines/illinois/toplines_illinois_senate_august_12_2009

Uh... WHAT? Obama's definitely in a bad state ATM.

According to Scott Rasmussen's off-year polling, he sure is.

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Why does everyone conveniently keep forgetting that both Quinnipiac and PPP also have him at 50% nationally?

Very different disapproval numbers.

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Virginia (Washington Post)

57% Approve
41% Disapprove

This Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone August 11-14, 2009, among a random sample of 1,002 adults in the Commonwealth of Virginia including users of both conventional and cellular phones. The results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by TNS of Horsham, Pa.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_081609.html

Probably too good to be true.

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It's funny how hate can get conservatives so excited. (Honestly, they won't be able to do much beyond that for quite a while.)

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Florida(Rasmussen)

Approve 42%
Disapprove 57%

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_state_toplines/florida/toplines_election_2010_florida_senate_august_17_2009

These numbers aren't even believable going by Rasmussen's own suspect national numbers. I'm sure he'll have a nice, saliva filled discussion with Hannity over them though.

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Wow, so many people on both sides speaking with certainty about an election that won't occur until late 2012. lol.

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Well, its exciting! This is the do or die moment for Obama, and the future of his term rests in his monumental decisions. it's no wonder so many are predicting.

Is it? How do we know that? Speculation can be fun but people should probably stop speaking in absolute terms.

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Arkansas(PPP)

Approve 40%
Disapprove 56%

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_AR_825.pdf

That's not actually as bad as I would have expected it to be at the moment.

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Wow, I'm surprised to see that nobody here has thrown out the idea of a "Kennedy bump" yet...

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Does anyone know if Bush got a bit of a bump after Reagan died (I honestly can't remember)?

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Don't you just love hacks...

Honestly, should you really be talking about anyone else? Honestly?

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Don't you just love hacks...

Honestly, should you really be talking about anyone else? Honestly?

Are you calling me a hack? A hack for who exactly?

Democrats, of course.

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President Obama isn't looking too hot right now. How's the hope and change doing for you? Ha ha ha

LOL OMG GOOD ONE