President Barack Obama’s job approval rating averaged 41.5% during his 23rd quarter in office, which began on July 20 and ended on Oct. 19. That ranks as one of his lowest quarterly approval ratings to date. The only two that were lower were the 41.2% in his 20th quarter — after the troubled launch of the health insurance exchanges last fall — and the 41.0% in his 11th quarter during the negotiations to raise the federal debt limit and its fallout on the U.S. economy. CONT.
Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup