President Obama's approval rating drops below 50%

I have 0% approval for this neomarxist scumbag.

There really is only one poll that matters and that won't come for another 3 years.

I never really pay attention to polls.

i dont need a poll to tell me how incompetent Obama is, thats as clear as day, and im sure that this wont change the mind of The Obama crowd

But hey... the banks are doing well.

Cripes...if people really paid attention to polls, this country would be in a lot worse condition.
But...this gives the right wingnuts more to crow about. They have to have something to latch onto.

Whatever. He is trying to help and people shit on him for it. Why not vote for a new district rep. instead of in an opinion poll.

Presidential terms are four years. Everyone needs to relax. Remember that party you had...and your house got all fucked up. Beer bottles mysteriously found there way into your bedroom, cigarette butts in your favorite coffee mug, records placed on radiators, left to melt, the pizza you put in the oven at 4am but didn't remember about until 2pm the next day when you woke up...that didn't take just a few minutes to clean up, did it? No, it took all day. Now...just think about that on a much larger scale...throw in some oil, supposed WMD's, a compelling story of revenge, throwing away taxpayers money, and thousands of American soldiers (our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews) sent to die for something they don't believe in. See...it's kinda like that house party you had.

I would question the legitimacy of the poll being taken. The margin of error is +- 4 points so Obama could be at 53% approval rating or he could be as low as 45%. I wouldn't post this as news since approval ratings don't really reflect the job being done. I may disapprove of something, but as many Americans, I don't have enough information to warrant that disapproval. How about we remain objective and not rate someone on something we don't understand or we inform ourselves like true citizens and care enough to take the time to understand how difficult a job it is to run a country that has so many people making poor decisions?

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It is way to soon to judge. It is natural for the opposition to quickly cling to anything that makes their opponent look like a failure. It has only been a year!!! Anyone who makes a final judgment this early on, whether it is positive or negative, is being irrational in my opinion.

this is typical ebb and flow. the polls go up and down in this exact pattern for every president. what I don't understand is why people always want healthcare reform. every election we know it. but every time a president tries to do it, all of a sudden everybody seems against it. people are fucking morons. the president needs to do what he knows is right and not worry about the polls. if he does the right thing, his results will effect the polls instead of letting the polls effect his efforts

For every poll that have him below 50%, there is three that have him above that number..Only the simple minded expect for him to solve such enormous problems, in one year....No other president in History, have faced the multitude of challenges, in their first year in office..A presidential term consist of four years.....Obama is merely a man, he is not super human......The haters in the Republican Party want to see him fail, so they do everything in their power to bring him down..They spread lies and propaganda, about him...These people are vile, demented, and downright vicious.....The Republicans are modern traitors, that cares more about Obama's failure, than America's success!

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You can't say hes below 50% if they got 49% with a 4% margin of error. Thats not how math works.

I love it, the deep thinkers (joke) have already given up on Obama. Not even a year in office funny how this poll keeps bouncing around like a pong game. Entertaining the masses is easy but changing a mindset of millions will take life's lessons and for many lose lessons will be hard.

Conservatives: grawww! we knew he'd fail! graaaawwwww!
Liberals: It's still all Bush's fault!

Same ol' same ol'. The guy's job is to be a filter for Congress. He really doesn't have THAT much control.

a survey of less than 2,000 people is not a true reading of a nation. sorry.

i'd have loved to see where john "bomb-bomb iran" mccain would have taken us by now. especially with sarah "going rogue" palin at his side.

wait... no i wouldn't... that's why i voted for the "other" guy.

still got about three years to suffer through, mr. hatethemall. start your 2012 campaign today!

who knows... maybe obama will get reelected and the gop can blame him for the apocalypse or the absence of one, depending on how things go.

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I think he is doing a fine job.

I'm not surprised, but the first comment on this article blamed Bush (along with several others). Isn't that line worn out yet?

The criticism on Obama not "fixing" things is only because he promised it to America with his own words. He promised unemployment to stay below 8% with the stimulus. FAIL. He promised health care reform by August recess. FAIL. He promised Gitmo closed within one year. FAIL. He promised a quick recovery to the recession with government spending. FAIL. And you Obamanites wonder why his approval rating is falling. He said he would fix things, bring about a new era of politics, no more pork in new legislation and he would run the most transparent White House ever. Let's just ignore the signing of the stimulus behind closed doors, voting for healthcare reform on Saturday night, leaving bills online for less than a day before signing them, unemployment at 10.2%, and on and on. He doesn't even need Republican support at all and he still can't follow through on his promises.

And the fakeness that is the Democrat party ensues....

He shouldn't be upset by this. He has the job and three more years. And the Republicans don't have a single person that could win the Pillsbury bake-off let alone a major political contest. And I say that as a lifelong Republican.

All of this is considered since the same thing still takes place that has always taken place on Capital Hill, corporate greed.

To Fix What Happen In 8 Long Years In A few Months , Dealing with a nation full of
people who want to see him fail ( like some other president can do better ) it's
being in ah room full of cooks while some are not cooks but CROOKS trying to make ah statement to say if it wasn't cause of this or that we wouldn't be in this !

No one expected a quick fix to our economy, not even Republicans.

Republicans just expect and want him to fail because he's not a Republican. All in all, his numbers are still better than Bush's, but if one poll doesn't matter none of them do. Perhaps he needs more than a year to fix 8 years of broken economics.

I'm willing to give him more time to actually do something before I call him a lame duck.

As it is now, I will still vote for a 3rd party candidate in 2012.

I hate to say it but I am very skeptical of him now.
I thought we were in for change but we are still bogged down in corporate thievery. This lobbyist system has got to go...it is like a cancer on us.
I honestly don't think we are going to survive their stealing from us anymore..we are like a leaky boat still. Blackwater...still there...huge drug company profits and no transparency on what they are really doing to us...the FDA..same...same old same old.

I know several people who use to work for Gallup Poll, and they all say that their poll is bias..

He's full of promises like every other politician. The solution for this ailing nation is not more politicians, it's revolution. End the country and the childish sense of entitlement and the problem will fix itself.

It goes up, it goes down, I don't care.

If Sarah Palin was president...

...she would have been impeached by now..

I don't think its too early to evaluate the president's performance, I don't think its fair for Dems to return to trashing Bush every time Obama faces criticism, & I think these polls are credible & important. But with that said, its also important that we look at the former presidents whose ratings have fell faster. Reagan is the Right's darling, & the Left still respects a lot of the work Clinton did; thus indicating that the American people are often slow at adjusting to leaders who attempt to bring about significant change, though with time, the public develops an appreciation for their work.

I guess this is just kind of Karma no matter how you feel about Obama. The failing economy helped put him into office but the anger has just carried over to this administration by people who base their opinion solely on their emotional impression instead of on logic. Its just unfortunate that the ignorant masses know little of economics and don't realize that the president is not the end all be all magic solution to every problem. Also, all because its been a year doesn't change the fact that economic policy and action takes a while to bubble throughout the economy. It doesnt matter if people were saying "its only been 3...5...7..9 months" its not going to matter at least for 2 years. All because it's cliche now when people say "its only been" however long doesn't change economic facts.

Even though I fear that no one may be able to dig us out of the hole that badly executed supply-side economic theories have dug us into, it will really be in the conservatives faces if the economy does turn around and people actually get better healthcare by next election.

Something I find really funny is that despite the momentum that people like Sarah Palin has brought to the far right, the GOP is embroiled in a civil war of ideology/direction that it may be their undoing despite the appearance of unity on the surface. I think Sarah Palin is actually doing damage to the right by alienating their middle. I think that is telling of politics today, when the Democrats have conservatives among them, but you will be hard pressed to find a progressive Republican. Just proof that the right is more concerned with dogma and corporate interests than they are reason and logic. Its just too bad that if a GOP candidate does win in 2012, and the economy is still crappy or worse, they will blame Obama even though it will still technically be The Great Bush Depression.

So both Regan and Clinton had a faster drop in approval ratings, yet they both were reelected to a second term. This means jack squat a lot can happen in 3 years, let me know his approval rating a week before the next election.

Oh man! what happens when people get scared into thinking polls are accurate?

It just seems like no matter who is President, the American people are going to be mad at him... I forgot the last time a President had high approval ratings for a long time. I was still too young to understand politics in the 90s.

The man has yet to complete his first year in office, faced with some of the biggest problems any newly elected president has ever seen. I'll see his job resume at the end of the 4 year term.

Every sitting President makes unpopular decisions, then sees their approval rating drop. It's just a matter of timing: When do you want to make upopular decisions. 2 days before you leave office? 15 months in? Eventually: every President has to make some unpopular decisions. Considering the number of these he had to make on his first day alone, I'm surprised it didn't happen any sooner.

The country is jacked up, but he did promise change. Only time will tell and there wont be any excuses from the Left, Right?

I still think it's a little too soon to judge. Can we at least give him 18 months?

hey, how many people here have ever been polled?

My guess is next to zero. Stop reporting on these bullshit, misleading statistics that are geared towards generating cash rather than informing anything substantial.

For once Americans can say "This is all that black guy's fault." and not sound racist.

We've come a long way as a nation... *eagle tear*

hahahaha jk it's all still Bush's fault. He fucked things up enough for the next TEN presidents to be left to fix it!!!

What was destroyed in 8 years can't be fixed in a few months. Hope he doesn't become the lame duck throughout his presidency.