Here’s the truth about President Obama’s job approval numbers: They don’t move around all that much. New numbers from Pew Research Center tell that story. Forty nine percent of respondents approved of the job President Obama while 43 percent disapproved. Those numbers are remarkably unchanged from where Obama stood in a […] Read more »
Obama’s approval takes a hit over NSA leaks
President Obama’s approval rating is down in the aftermath of the NSA leaks. … This decline coincides with falling trust both in government and in Obama himself. Indeed, the biggest sign of trouble for Obama is not that his approval has fallen, but that it’s been accompanied by a similar […] Read more »
Obama Job Approval Holds Steady, Economic Views Improve
In a second term marked by a series of controversies and little legislative success, President Obama’s job approval rating has nonetheless remained fairly steady. Currently, 49% approve of the way Obama is handling his job as president while 43% disapprove. That is little changed from a month ago, before the […] Read more »
Obama’s Job Approval Easily Outpaces U.S. Satisfaction
President Barack Obama’s job approval rating thus far in 2013 has averaged 24 percentage points higher than Americans’ satisfaction with the direction in which the country is going. This gap is typical for the Obama presidency, but represents a much greater presidential job approval premium than most other presidents since […] Read more »
Shifting IRS polls contradict key deposition
Roughly half of all Americans now think the White House was behind the Internal Revenue Service decision to target conservative political groups — a growing belief at odds with information recently provided to CNN by congressional investigators. [cont.] Alan Silverleib, CNN Read more »
Of polls and megaphones
CNN is a great news organization peopled by wonderful journalists. Their survey department is also run by fine pollsters. So I really do hate to pick on them, especially for a fault in which they are hardly alone. But, they are the most current example of a news outlet that […] Read more »