After months of stagnant approval ratings, a new CNN/ORC poll finds that for the first time in more than two years, 50% of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling the presidency. And his overall ratings are bolstered by increasingly positive reviews of his treatment of race relations and the economy.
The new poll follows a week in which two Supreme Court cases boosted the president's legacy by upholding the government subsidies at the heart of Obama's health care law, the Affordable Care Act, and affirming same-sex couples' right to marry. All this while Obama took several opportunities to directly address the nation's racial tensions, closing out the week by singing "Amazing Grace" on national television.
It appears that all the victories last week have boosted Obama's approval rating to 50% for the 1st time since 2013. I guess more of us are proud to be an American.
Obama's approval rating grows following memorable week - CNNPolitics.com
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You're celebrating that for the first time as much a HALF the people approve of the job he's doing? Any other business and that employee would be fired.
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You're celebrating that for the first time as much a HALF the people approve of the job he's doing? Any other business and that employee would be fired.
In June of Bush's seventh year in office he had an approval rating of 31%. While I wouldn't call Obama's 50% approval rating mega-inspiring, there are sure as hell a lot lower bars.
FOX News Poll: Bush Approval Rating Hits New Low | Fox News
Better than Reagan too in his 7th year. But Clinton was flying above them all.In June of Bush's seventh year in office he had an approval rating of 31%. While I wouldn't call Obama's 50% approval rating mega-inspiring, there are sure as hell a lot lower bars.
FOX News Poll: Bush Approval Rating Hits New Low | Fox News
Even President Reagan's approval rating was only 50% at this point in his presidency.
http://content.gallup.com/origin/ga...roduction/Cms/POLL/rmgzeqkfc02dn1bv3mnkmw.gif
Even President Reagan's approval rating was only 50% at this point in his presidency.
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Cardinal said:In June of Bush's seventh year in office he had an approval rating of 31%. While I wouldn't call Obama's 50% approval rating mega-inspiring, there are sure as hell a lot lower bars.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/06...s-new-low.html
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You're celebrating that for the first time as much a HALF the people approve of the job he's doing? Any other business and that employee would be fired.
Polls show President Obama has higher approval rating - UPI.comWASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- According to recent polls, President Obama's approval rating for his sixth year is higher than President Bush's and close to President Reagan's at the same point in their presidencies.
A recent Gallup poll shows Obama with a term average of a 48 percent approval rating, and 45 percent approval for the most recently recorded weekly average. In comparison, George Bush was at 37 percent at the same point in his presidency and Reagan was at 48 percent.
It appears that all the victories last week have boosted Obama's approval rating to 50% for the 1st time since 2013. I guess more of us are proud to be an American.
Obama's approval rating grows following memorable week - CNNPolitics.com
LOL Your bias is showing. Obama's approval rating is on par with Reagan.
Polls show President Obama has higher approval rating - UPI.com
So the half of the population who would be expected to support anything he does are actually coming back to the fold. What a shock. Certainly breaking news.
In June of Bush's seventh year in office he had an approval rating of 31%. While I wouldn't call Obama's 50% approval rating mega-inspiring, there are sure as hell a lot lower bars.
FOX News Poll: Bush Approval Rating Hits New Low | Fox News
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Are you reading what you post?
Btw, where have I ever used Reagan as an example of what someone should do as POTUS?
And neither of those approval ratings were cause for celebration.
Obama is great when you lower the bar far enough.
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You're celebrating that for the first time as much a HALF the people approve of the job he's doing? Any other business and that employee would be fired.
Obama is great when you lower the bar far enough.
While the other half provide them with a republican congress.
Well I guess it all depends on how history remembers him. Reagan was 50% at this point and he's regarded fondly by conservatives as one of the best Presidents in the modern era. We'll just have to see if history is equally kind to Obama. I think he will be. He doesn't have Reagan's "presided over the fall of the USSR" crowdpleasing tagline, but as a guy who kept the United States chugging along, as well as leading us, slowly by surely, out of the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression, when the the dust settles Obama will be remembered as having been a fine president.
And same people will put another Democrat back in the Whitehouse in 2016. Isn't it just peachy?
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