Gallup:
President Obama's job approval rating is at a new low, averaging 40% in July 26-28 Gallup Daily tracking. His prior low rating of 41% occurred several times, the last of which was in April. As recently as June 7, Obama had 50% job approval.
Let’s not get too excited. This could just be an outlier, and anyway his approval rating’s hit 41% a few times and come back from it. Plus, polls suck, so we have to take that into account.
Still. Woot.
This was interesting:
Obama's job approval rating among Democrats is 72%, compared with 34% among independents and 13% among Republicans. In the prior three weeks, his average approval rating was 79% among Democrats, 41% among independents, and 12% among Republicans.
Approval among Democrats: down. Among independents: down. Among Republicans...up? What the hell?
Sure, it’s within the margin of error. On the other hand...don’t count me among those who'll root against the economy to gain partisan advantage, but I do approve of anything the president does to make his re-election less likely.
Your approval of someone’s performance depends on whether he’s achieving what you want him to achieve, doesn’t it? So if you want President Obama to be a one-termer, then don’t you kind of have to approve of his performance so far?
In which case, what’s wrong with the rest of those Republicans?
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