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Obama’s Approval Slips To 62% In Q2

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Obama, Polls

With so many huge initiatives happening, this isn’t necessarily surprising. The Obama White House has had a hard time controlling the message, especially since they allowed the House to drive a lot of the legislation and make Pelosi the point person on them. In other words, with her substitution as the face of the Democratic party more often than not, Obama is lucky the numbers are still this high.

Here’s what his approval has looked like the last three months…

And here are some historical numbers…

More as it develops…

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3 Responses to “Obama’s Approval Slips To 62% In Q2”

the Word Says:
July 20th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
So- Way behind Ike and JFK. Even with Nixon, Slightly ahead of Reagan and slightly behind Carter and quite a bit ahead of Clinton and Bush. Color me confused as to what that all means..

I think it would be overly simplistic to assume his net loss is a net GOP gain. I think there are a lot like me who thinks the drink they ordered is getting less of the substance they ordered and a lot more mixer.

He needs to control the message better and get his spine back. The lack of a spine is a big reason that the backing of the Democratic Party is so lukewarm. At least the GOP when in power is willing to push their agenda.
Nick Benjamin Says:
July 20th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
This doesn’t mean much. Clinton’s approval numbers at this point were pathetic, but he still kicked ass in 1996, and remains popular despite impeachment and doing an intern.

The only number that really sticks out is that Obama’s been polled 88 times. The rest of them had 44 polls combined.

That’s a big jump.
Alistair Says:
July 20th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
I believe that he is starting to control the message but he faces the same problem that Bill Clinton did with his own party when he came to office when both the GOP & conservative Democrat stoned wall his health care plan very much like they’re trying to do with President Obama. The only difference is that he’s campaigning hard to have it past while President Clinton wasn’t has affected when he pushed for health care reformed.

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