Poll: Obama Approval At 50%
It’s Zogby, though, and Zogby polls are usually outliers. Even though, it’s indicative of a trend indicated by other more reliable polls.
Pollster John Zogby said his poll out today will show Americans split on the president’s performance. He said the score factors out to “about 50-50.”
Some polls show Obama coasting with a 65 percent job approval, but not in Zogby’s tally.
“The numbers are going down,” Zogby told the Herald. “It’s not because of the gaffes, but a combination of high expectations and that things aren’t moving fast enough with the economy.”
Rasmussen has Obama at 56% approval, and a approval index of 4. That’s down significantly from a +15 approval index at the beginning of the month.
It’s clear that the honeymoon is ending for Obama, if it’s not already over. He’s going to have to come up with something other than massive new government spending programs if he wants to stay in the good graces of the public. Because what he’s offering now is so transparently worthless in terms of actually helping our economy, so blatantly Carteresque, that the public isn’t going to put up with it for long.
Of course, if the economy recovers at the end of the year as the Congressional Budget Office concluded it would even if Obama had done nothing, and if Obama through his friends in the media can convince the public that he’s responsible for the turn around even though only 10% of his economic rescue policies will be implemented this year at all, his approval numbers will turn around. Whether they deserve to or not.
