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Poll: Obama’s Approval Rating Holds, Doubts Increase
A new poll suggests the president’s approval rating is holding, but that doubts are increasing.
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WASHINGTON (November 11, 2009)—A new AP-GfK poll suggests Americans have grown slightly more dispirited over the past month.
Fifty-six percent of the respondents say the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction, up from 51 percent in October.
President Obama's approval rating was about the same at 54 percent, but less than half now approve of how he is handling the economy, down from 50 percent.
Compared to October, slightly more respondents disapproved of Mr. Obama's handling of Iraq and Afghanistan.
On health care, about half approved of how Mr. Obama is doing, which is nearly unchanged from October.
GfK Roper Public Affairs and Media conducted the AP-GfK Poll of about 1,000 adults last Thursday through this Monday.
The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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He never has earned my approval and as far as doubts well they were there in the beginning. All show and to go.
Roughly the same approval ratings as in October, yes--and also roughly the same as in JULY. Much lower than in January, at the Beginning of possibly the most hyped presidency ever? The Daily Kos points out that the first 8 paragraphs of the AP piece don't have a lot of relevance to the actual poll numbers. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/11/803289/-No-actual-poll-results-in-first-8-paragraphs-of-AP-poll-analysis I'm not sure is for whatever reason motivated to spin Obama's ratings as worse than they really are, or whether they're just trying to get more news buzz and interest after having invested money in a poll that is, once the 3.1% margin of error is taken into account, just not that interesting... yes, the numbers are slightly lower, but it's not enough to be very interesting. Certainly not enough for a responsible journalistic lead-in that is so bleak in tone. Maybe this is a case of image and branding taking primacy to (and thereafter influencing) the poll numbers,
