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Obama’s approval rating at 41%
Wed, 08/04/2010 - 10:40am | posted by Jason Pye
President Barack Obama doesn’t need anymore bad news, but that’s exactly what Obama got yesterday as Gallup released new approval numbers, which are highlighted by poor numbers on the War in Afghanistan and the economy:
Support for Obama’s management of the war fell to 36%, down from 48% in a February poll. Now, a record 43% also say it was a mistake to go to war there after the terrorist attacks in 2001.
The decline in support contributed to the lowest approval ratings of Obama’s presidency. Amid a lengthy recession, more Americans support his handling of the economy (39%) than the war.
Only 41% of those surveyed Tuesday through Sunday approved of the way Obama is handling his job, his lowest rating in the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll since he took office in January 2009. In Gallup’s separate daily tracking poll, his approval was at 45% Monday.
We’re coming off the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan and the economy is hobbling along and is just as vulnerable as it was with the stimulus bill was passed early last year. Obama is facing the prospect of a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives and enough losses in the Senate to slim down the Democrats’ majority in the Senate, President Barack Obama has told of this own party that it may not be a good idea for him to campaign for them.
Obama still has a long way to go before in he hits the numbers that Bush put up, but here is a look at his approval rating over time:
9/11 was when I was in high school, so the memory has wained in people’s minds. Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden are most likely in Pakistan, if both are still alive. With the massive cost in both wars, it’s a really hard sell to the average American to dole out money to pay for what may be a losing effort when they can’t even get employment.
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