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Video:National Poll Shows Record Low Approval For Obama AND 44% Americans Would Rather Have Pres. Bush In Office Over Obama. | The Centrist

20 hours ago ago from The Centrist

Reading the lastest national survey by Public Policy Polling that shows just 50 percent of voters now say they prefer having him as president to George W. Bush, with 44 percent saying they d rather have his predecessor The Democratics and 1 so called Republican in Maine spent billions in stimulus dollars to improve the economy. Are Americans seeing no results as a failure of Democratic Leadership in Washington as well as parts ...

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EVERY PRESIDENT GETS REHABILITATED, MOST NOT QUITE THIS FAST:

21 hours ago ago from BrothersJudd Blog

Second poll shows Obama approval rating at 47% (DIANNA HEITZ, 12/10/09, Politico) If White House officials were peeved at Gallup Poll for its reporting on President Barack Obama’s recent slide to 47 percent approval — and they were — imagine the reaction at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to the survey released Wednesday by Public Policy Polling, which also reported the president’s approval rating at 47 percent, but added this analysis: ...

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Obama’s 47 Percent Approval Lowest of Any President at This Point

17 hours ago ago from Politics in the News

President Obama's job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any president at this point in his term. Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and even Richard Nixon all had higher approval ratings 10-and-a-half months into their presidencies. Obama's immediate predecessor, President George W. Bush, had an approval rating of 86 percent, or 39 points higher than Obama at this stage. Bush's ...

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Obama More Popular than Bush

17 hours ago ago from South Dakota Politics

Barely. This might be a watershed on the historical landscape of the Obama presidency. Or not. Either way it's striking. From the Politico : If White House officials were peeved at Gallup Poll for its reporting on President Barack Obama's recent slide to 47 percent approval — and they were — imagine the reaction at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to the survey released Wednesday by Public Policy Polling, which also reported the president's ...

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18 hours ago ago from Real Clear Thinker

A few days ago, Gallup showed Barack Obama's approval rating to have dropped to an historic low of 47% (lowest point ever by a president this early in his administration.) Gallup has since drifted back up to 50%, but a new Public Polling survey also shows him at 47%, while a new Quinnipiac poll has Obama at 46%. “Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama’s declining support is that just 50 percent of voters now say they prefer having him as ...

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Fox News Poll: Obama's Job Approval Rating Regains Some Ground

12 hours ago ago from FOX News

Fox News Poll: Obama's Job Approval Rating Regains Some Ground Thursday, December 10, 2009 Dana Blanton Print President Obama's job approval rating has regained some ground and now stands at 50 percent, according to a Fox News poll released Thursday. Forty-four percent of Americans currently disapprove of the job the president is doing. In November, the president received his lowest approval rating to date when 46 percent of ...

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Kasich Pulls Ahead of Strickland in Ohio Governor Match-Up

15 hours ago ago from Politics Daily

After several polls showing the two running evenly, former Republican Rep. John Kasich now leads first-term Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland by 48 percent to 39 percent with 3 percent preferring some other candidate and 11 percent undecided, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Dec. 7. Strickland, like many other governors, has been struggling under budget and economic woes. Fifty percent of voters disapprove of the job he is ...

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2009 was trying for Obama; Dems fret over 2010

10 hours ago ago from U.S. News

2009 was trying for Obama; Dems fret over 2010 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even if President Barack Obama's lofty ratings were bound to recede, 2009 has been a politically bruising year for Democrats, who now approach 2010 with deep anxieties. They lost both governors' races and their party's activists are split over Afghanistan. Voters hold Democrats, as the party in power, accountable for high unemployment and soaring deficits. Obama and ...

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Many Israelis View Obama Favorably, Poll Finds

15 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Israelis have a far more favorable attitude toward President Obama than generally believed, according to a new poll by the New America Foundation. The poll suggests that Obama hasn't lost public support in Israel with regard to renewed efforts to advance the peace process, despite some reports claiming that the president had only a "4 percent approval rating" among Israelis. (You can read the full report here .) 41 percent of Israelis rated ...

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