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Obama's approval rating grows following memorable week

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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.

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.

Obama's approval rating grows following memorable week - CNNPolitics.com
 
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

This is certainly good to hear, although I tend to have a distaste for single polls (for instance, a recent Economist poll put his approval v. disapproval split at 44/55 or minus 11). Here is a link to Realclearpolitics.com source on Obama's job approval. It averages the various polls together.

RealClearPolitics - Election Other - President Obama Job Approval

With that said, you will notice that his average sits at -2.8, and that is the best split for Obama since June of 2013.
 
:lamo

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.
 
:lamo

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.

No other employee is voted into that position via a national election. Nor is there any other employee that is charged with being the person in charge of the most powerful nation on earth.
 
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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

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

And neither of those approval ratings were cause for celebration.
 
:lamo

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.

LOL Your bias is showing. Obama's approval rating is on par with Saint Reagan. Maybe we should put Obama on some money.
WASHINGTON, 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.
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.

And same people will put another Democrat back in the Whitehouse in 2016. Isn't it just peachy?
 
:lamo

Are you reading what you post?

Btw, where have I ever used Reagan as an example of what someone should do as POTUS?

I'm sorry, I thought you had someone to support from your party who actually won. Apparently not and I would agree.
 
And neither of those approval ratings were cause for celebration.

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?

While the other half provide them with a republican congress.
 
:lamo

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.

If the presidency was a business, perhaps. And then Bush would have been fired long before he finished out his second term! ;)
 
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.

Yeah, that may be so. Depends on who writes the history, what version becomes "common knowledge".

I'm obviously conservative and I have no love for Reagan. I was an adult when he was POTUS, unlike so many who adore him, idolize him.
 
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