The Official Obama 2.0 Approval Ratings Thread

[Lief 🗽]

BREAKING NEWS
OBAMA IN POSITIVE APPROVAL IN BOTH RASMUSSEN AND GALLUP TRACKERS FOR FIRST TIME SINCE MARCH 2013

49-47 GALLUP
50-48 RASMUSSEN

Obama needs to dissolve Congress and call a snap election.

[Devils30]

Seems like he's back at 2012 numbers now.

[The Other Castro]

2015: How Obama Got His Groove Back

[pbrower2a]

President Barack Obama has negative approval ratings in the key swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, but voters in each state strongly support his call to raise taxes on the rich to help the middle class, according to a Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll released today.

Voters in each state want the next president to "change direction from Barack Obama's policies," the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University Poll finds. The Swing State Poll focuses on Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania because since 1960 no candidate has won the presidential race without taking at least two of these three states.

The president's approval ratings are:

    Negative 46 - 49 percent in Florida;
    Negative 42 - 53 percent in Ohio;
    Negative 44 - 53 percent in Pennsylvania.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/2016-presidential-swing-state-polls/release-detail?ReleaseID=2132

60% or higher maroon (70% saturation)

55-59% medium red (50% saturation)
50-54% pink (30% saturation)
45-49% orange -- Obama ahead (30% saturation)
45-49% yellow -- exact tie (40% saturation)
45-49% aqua -- Obama behind (20% saturation)
44% blue (20% saturation)
40-43% blue (50% saturation)
30-40% deep blue (70% saturation)
under 30%(90% saturation)

[Adam Griffin]

Fox 5 Poll of Obama's Approval Rating, Georgia:

Disapprove: 51%
Approve: 47%

[King]

That's pretty good for Georgia

[pbrower2a]

Fox 5 Poll of Obama's Approval Rating, Georgia:

Disapprove: 51%
Approve: 47%

Wow! If that's Georgia, then all that stops President Obama from having a Third Term is the pesky 22nd Amendment. 

60% or higher maroon (70% saturation)

55-59% medium red (50% saturation)
50-54% pink (30% saturation)
45-49% orange -- Obama ahead (30% saturation)
45-49% yellow -- exact tie (40% saturation)
45-49% aqua -- Obama behind (20% saturation)
44% blue (20% saturation)
40-43% blue (50% saturation)
30-40% deep blue (70% saturation)
under 30%(90% saturation)

[Tender Branson]

AR (Talk Business/Hendrix College)

Do you approve or disapprove of the job President Barack Obama is doing?

26% – Approve
70% – Disapprove

Do you approve or disapprove of the job Gov. Asa Hutchinson is doing?

52% – Approve
12% – Disapprove

Do you approve or disapprove of the job Sen. Tom Cotton is doing?

50% – Approve
30% – Disapprove

Do you approve or disapprove of the job Sen. John Boozman is doing?

40% – Approve
22% – Disapprove

1,079 registered Arkansas voters were polled of which 86% were landline phones reached by automated calls and 14% were surveyed via the Internet. The poll, which was conducted from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1, 2015, has a margin of error of +/-2.98%.

http://talkbusiness.net/2015/02/poll-hutchinson-cotton-break-50-with-early-job-approval-ratings

[pbrower2a]

AR (Talk Business/Hendrix College)

Do you approve or disapprove of the job President Barack Obama is doing?

26% – Approve
70% – Disapprove

http://talkbusiness.net/2015/02/poll-hutchinson-cotton-break-50-with-early-job-approval-ratings

Credible because  the rating for a Senator is consistent with polling by a respected pollster.  

60% or higher maroon (70% saturation)

55-59% medium red (50% saturation)
50-54% pink (30% saturation)
45-49% orange -- Obama ahead (30% saturation)
45-49% yellow -- exact tie (40% saturation)
45-49% aqua -- Obama behind (20% saturation)
44% blue (20% saturation)
40-43% blue (50% saturation)
30-40% deep blue (70% saturation)
under 30%(90% saturation)

[Adam Griffin]

MTSU-Tennessee: Obama Approval

Disapprove: 52%
Approve: 37%

High number of undecideds.

http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/article/124142/poll-79-percent-approve-of-tennessees-free-tuition-plan

[Adam Griffin]

PPP-NC: Obama Approval

Disapprove: 53%
Approve: 42%

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2014/PPP_Release_NC_20315.pdf

[pbrower2a]

Tennessee -- and this may be the best that we get for some time:

60% or higher maroon (70% saturation)

55-59% medium red (50% saturation)
50-54% pink (30% saturation)
45-49% orange -- Obama ahead (30% saturation)
45-49% yellow -- exact tie (40% saturation)
45-49% aqua -- Obama behind (20% saturation)
44% blue (20% saturation)
40-43% blue (50% saturation)
30-40% deep blue (70% saturation)
under 30%(90% saturation)

[Matty]

Why are his approval ratings kinda low in ohio

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Obama Approval Rating - RCP Average: 45.6% (50.3% Disapprove)
With YouGov Outlier removed: 46.3% (49.5% Disapprove)

Also "going on the right track" is at its highest point since February 2013.

[pbrower2a]

Why are his approval ratings kinda low in ohio

Governing and legislating are very different from campaign mode. Politicians can rarely please everyone when they govern or legislate. Political change typically happens when it has just-over-majority support in a mature democracy. A people who recently overthrew a military dictatorship or a commie regime may be very happy with the meeting of political and economic desires long suppressed. After Pinochet or Honecker, people can be very happy with huge change.

52% of the people are likely to approve of legislation or new policies that imply change, and 47% are going to dislike it. Some of those changes are going to offends entrenched interests who begin loud, strident campaigns to return to the old way of doing things.

It could be that America is extremely polarized between people who want a Christian and Corporate State that endorses a traditional morality in return for inequality characteristic of a plantation... and people who would rather emigrate than endure such. 

... North Carolina gets polled a lot -- and just about every politician, current or recent, is unpopular. Are we too fussy? Are we simply unable to get what we want?

 

[Matty]

Why are there such wide discrepancies with the yougov/reuters;ipsos polls and all other polls?

[Miles]

The Maryland Survey- 45/51

[IceSpear]

The Maryland Survey- 45/51

So Obama is the same in Maryland as he is nationally? Junk poll!

[Ebsy]

Gallup's tracking poll today is Obama +3 49/46 approve over disapprove.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Gallup's tracking poll today is Obama +3 49/46 approve over disapprove.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

Dominating.  Repeal that pesky 22nd so Obama can continue to build his utopia. 

[user12345]

RCP average has his approval at 46/49.6. #repealthe22nd

[Lief 🗽]

Obama now at 50-46 on Gallup! The people love him!

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

If you take out the YouGov/Ipsos outliers from the RCP Average, Obama's approval is at:

46.4/48.7

Even I have to admit that Obama's been on fairly good behavior since the election. He gave way too many veto threats in the SOTU and vetoed Keystone, but aside from that he honestly hasn't done anything wrong between November 5 and now. (I actually support his executive orders on immigration, as much as that may surprise some of you.)

[Bandit3 the Worker]

He was right to veto the Keystone XL bill - even if the pipeline itself is perfectly justifiable (which it isn't). The bill was a power grab by Congress trying to claim executive powers.

[Ebsy]

Low gas prices struck at the perfect moment for Obama to veto the legislation and not face any political backlash. Probably the luckiest break of Obama's 2nd term.