Obama’s Approval Rating Drops Into the 30s
Photo Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesBy Mark Silva.
President Barack Obama is near matching his all-time low in job approval in the Gallup Poll.
The 39 percent approval rating reported by Gallup today — an average of surveys conducted Saturday through Monday — is close to the 38-percent low the president scored in August and again October of 2011.
His disapproval rating has climbed to 53 percent, his highest disapproval since Oct. 10-12, 2001.
The decline — his approval rating stood at 53 percent in mid-August — comes in the midst of the problems the administration is having with the rollout of the Obamacare health insurance exchanges.
The partial shutdown of the government that ran 16 days obscured the initial problems that Healthcare.gov was having enrolling people in the exchanges that opened Oct. 1.
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Photo Credit: APObama’s Approval Rating Has Dipped Into Dangerously Low Territory
By Brett Logiurato.
President Barack Obama’s approval rating has dipped a point to 39%, according to the latest Gallup daily tracking poll — dangerous waters for a president still in the first year of his second term.
The 39% mark is a point lower in Gallup’s three-day rolling average. Obama’s disapproval held steady at 53%.
It’s Obama’s worst approval rating in Gallup’s daily tracking poll since the Oct.17-19, 2011, average, which came right after a bruising fight for both Democrats and Republicans over raising the nation’s debt ceiling.
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