gallup.com - 7/28/2009
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PRINCETON, NJ -- Amidst President Obama's push in July to revamp the nation's healthcare system, Gallup finds his average job approval rating registering 56% for the seven-day period ending Sunday, down from 59% the previous week. This three percentage point drop is the largest week-to-week ...
online.wsj.com - 7/30/2009
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online.wsj.com —
Support for Obama's health-care effort declined over the
past five weeks as Congress struggled to finalize legislation...
and attention focused on its high price, a new WSJ/NBC News poll finds. (Full poll results)
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Obama Approval Ratings Slip in Poll
brendan-nyhan.com - 7/23/2009
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brendan-nyhan.com —
If you follow politics for long enough, you
may notice that coverage of presidential approval suffers from...
a bizarre ahistoricism. Reporters typically have almost no understanding of the forces that drive presidential approval or the patterns it tends ...
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Obama's approval drop not surprising
washingtonexaminer.com - 8/5/2009
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washingtonexaminer.com —
Each week the Gallup organization publishes an analysis
of job approval for President Barack Obama, broken down...
by all sorts of demographic groups. You want to know the president's approval rating among voters 65 years or older? It's 48 percent. ...
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You can bet on it: Obama will raise your taxes
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Obama's approval: 'Lost some steam'
The Swamp —
... The latest numbers for Saturday through Monday - 54 percent job-approval - mark a new low for Obama, whose Gallup approval ratings stood in the high 60's after inauguration, with 37 percent of those surveyed by Gallup voicing disapproval. ...
Did Skip Gates comment hurt Obama's popularity? Check out these numbers.
Top of the Ticket —
... President Obama's job approval rating is down. The latest Gallup poll shows a drop of three points on the week, to 56%, the largest week-to-week slide in his young presidency and a striking fall from his high of 66% in May. ...
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publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com 8/29/2009 — For most of 2009 PPP and Gallup have evidently been polling two different countries. Our March poll had Barack Obama's national approval rating at 55%. Theirs at the same time had it at 62%. In April we were at 53%, they were at 63%. In May we were at ...
White House readies for six-month review —
CNN Political Ticker 7/28/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Blair House is usually used for hosting foreign dignitaries, top-level White House staff and Cabinet secretaries will gather there and at the White House Conference Center this weekend to assess the first six months of the ...
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