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Posted: 1/25/2009 5:05:19 AM EST

http://businessmirror.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5057:obama-approval-rating-is-68-in-first-days-on-job-gallup-says-&catid=23:topnews&Itemid=58

Obama approval rating is 68% in first days on job, Gallup says        
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Written by Jun Cruz    
Sunday, 25 January 2009 11:51  

President Barack Obama won approval from 68 percent of Americans in his first three days on the job, emerging at the high end of ratings for the last eight first- term predecessors, according to a Gallup poll.

The 68 percent rating compares with 12 percent who said they disapproved of the job Obama has done and 21 percent who had no opinion, Gallup reported today on its Web site. The telephone survey of 1,591 adults nationwide was conducted Jan. 21-23.

The disapproval rating is typical for new presidents, previous poll results show. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were exceptions as both started with higher levels of disfavor, at 20 percent and 25 percent respectively, Gallup said. Clinton’s initial first-term approval rating was 58 percent, and Bush’s was 57 percent.

The latest poll has a sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. Gallup is tracking Obama’s job approval rating daily and will report it using a three-day rolling average.

Obama’s high initial rating also reflects the positive evaluations he got during the transition. He received 83 percent approval for the way he handled the transition, compared with 61 percent that Bush netted in 2001 and 68 percent for Clinton in 1993, according to Gallup. (Bloomberg)

Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:06:40 AM EST
[#1]
So 68% of Obama supporters approve of his job?
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:06:57 AM EST
[#2]
it went down down down and the flames they went higher, and it burned burned burned, the ring of fire....the ring of fire
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:06:58 AM EST
[#3]
Not at my house.
M
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:07:19 AM EST
[#4]
I feel better already.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:07:48 AM EST
[#5]
I think he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for that.

Why we didn't elect him King of America I will never know.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:08:01 AM EST
[#6]
but he hasn't done anything
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:09:28 AM EST
[#7]
With as little negative press as Obama got comparitively, I am surprised his rating is not a bit higher.

We still no nothing of his younger years or have even had it questioned, this is unlike Bush and even Clinton who got grilled in that area.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:10:02 AM EST
[#8]


So long as the MSM remains on their knees, the love fest will continue.





5sub
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:10:57 AM EST
[#9]
Is the approval rating of congress still in the shitter?
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:12:15 AM EST
[#10]
Quoted:
Is the approval rating of congress still in the shitter?



DEEP in the shitter.




5sub

Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:13:40 AM EST
[#11]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Is the approval rating of congress still in the shitter?



DEEP in the shitter.




5sub



which is where obama's will be at this rate.  wasnt it somewhere around 80% the other day?  better get the C5s loaded up with escalades and rent checks so they can start raining from the sky
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:13:54 AM EST
[#12]
Don't you feel the hope and change?



Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:14:10 AM EST
[#13]
Quoted:
So 68% of Obama supporters approve of his job?


americans is not hte same measurement as voters"
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:21:28 AM EST
[#14]
68%?...wasn't it like almost 80% on just Tuesday?....that's down like almost 15pts in less than a week...
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:26:08 AM EST
[#15]
Quoted:
68%?...wasn't it like almost 80% on just Tuesday?....that's down like almost 15pts in less than a week...


Well yeah, cancer isn't cured, gas isn't free, and the checks are neither in the mailbox or even in the mail.  I'm surprised it's that high.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:26:36 AM EST
[#16]
Quoted:
but he hasn't done anything


I know! WTF? Does this mean as long as he stays in bed he's a shoe in for a 2nd term?

Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:27:44 AM EST
[#17]
No worries guys, when he starts to F up, just means he will fall harder
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:31:59 AM EST
[#18]


Quoted:


68%?...wasn't it like almost 80% on just Tuesday?....that's down like almost 15pts in less than a week...


At this rate he will be below Bush's numbers by the end of January!



 
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:32:53 AM EST
[#19]
It's easy to have a high approval rating when you haven't had to prove yourself on anything yet.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:38:24 AM EST
[#20]
Quoted:
68%?...wasn't it like almost 80% on just Tuesday?....that's down like almost 15pts in less than a week...


Yeah on Tuesday I did see a headline that said his approval rating was 80%.  Of course in his pissed the press off twice on his first day in office so that might account for the new rating!
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:43:59 AM EST
[#21]
68% of who?!! the people that went out of their way to show their approval?  Why doesnt someone do a REAL approval rating with no fixed numbers
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:48:25 AM EST
[#22]
The guy has been pres for what, 4 days?, how can anyone form an opinion.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:49:01 AM EST
[#23]
Quoted:
Quoted:
but he hasn't done anything


I know! WTF? Does this mean as long as he stays in bed he's a shoe in for a 2nd term?



Not possible...he has to pay back those that financed his campaign by implementing Socialism, those that he picked for his cabinet (Hitlery) need to steal back the 20 million dollars she "lent" her campaign and the MSM has to cover for all this criminal activity....his ratings are bound to drop to at least 55% because that seems to be the number of hard core blind and stupid idiots we have in this country.

Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:49:05 AM EST
[#24]
Just wait until the entitlement class realizes that the Obamachecks are not in the mail.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:51:35 AM EST
[#25]
Here's an interesting tidbit.

The two presidents with the highest approval ratings ever:

George W. Bush and his father.....

Who also had the 3rd and 4th worst approval ratings.


http://blog.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2007/07/approval_highs_and_lows.html
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 5:52:28 AM EST
[#26]
Another rigged poll.

Link Posted: 1/25/2009 6:06:35 AM EST
[#27]
Nobody asked me
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 6:09:08 AM EST
[#28]
Quoted:
but he hasn't done anything




Other than being anointed The Dear Leader.


Link Posted: 1/25/2009 6:11:30 AM EST
[#29]
Hey he vowed to closed GITMO

Link Posted: 1/25/2009 6:12:22 AM EST
[#30]
Some day I would like to see a "poll of Americans who actually work for a fucking living in the private sector and who don't suck off the government tit."  But I know I am asking for too much.

When, and not if, his popularity begins to sag like Caroline Kennedy's bust, will the MSM track the fall as they did with Bush 43?  Of course not.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 6:13:52 AM EST
[#31]

 He's been in orifice 4 1/2 days. Translation: MEANS SCHIT.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 6:31:52 AM EST
[#32]
Could go higher....initially, but over the long term, sheeple will wise up, and the 68 will go down.

Something to keep track of if we had a BHO-specific page.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 6:41:30 AM EST
[#33]
Quoted:
but he hasn't done anything


He has succeeded in being Our First Black President.

When will White embrace Right?

Link Posted: 1/25/2009 6:42:51 AM EST
[#34]
Quoted:
Quoted:
but he hasn't done anything


He has succeeded in being Our First Black President.

When will White embrace Right?





Link Posted: 1/25/2009 6:50:18 AM EST
[#35]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
but he hasn't done anything


He has succeeded in being Our First Black President.

When will White embrace Right?







Roll your eyes all you want, but it's the mentality that's at work here.

Link Posted: 1/25/2009 6:52:19 AM EST
[#36]
Quoted:
It's easy to have a high approval rating when you haven't had to prove yourself on anything yet.

That one bears repeating .

Link Posted: 1/25/2009 6:54:44 AM EST
[#37]
Quoted:
Quoted:
but he hasn't done anything


He has succeeded in being Our First Black President.

When will White embrace Right?




His communist/racist ideology is what's NOT right.



Link Posted: 1/25/2009 7:14:39 AM EST
[#38]
Our goals should be:

1.  get that rating to 50 percent
2.  get it below 50 percent
3.  get it to 40 percent
4.  get it to 30 percent
etc.  

That is why I really dislike McCain: he could have at least run a campaign such that if Obama won he'd have higher negatives.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 7:16:01 AM EST
[#39]
Quoted:
Our goals should be:

1.  get that rating to 50 percent
2.  get it below 50 percent
3.  get it to 40 percent
4.  get it to 30 percent
etc.  

That is why I really dislike McCain: he could have at least run a campaign such that if Obama won he'd have higher negatives.


His people were too busy trying to get Palin's numbers down.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 7:19:03 AM EST
[#40]
How about we wait until he actually does something before we grade him!


Hessian-1
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 7:19:19 AM EST
[#41]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
but he hasn't done anything


He has succeeded in being Our First Black President.

When will White embrace Right?







Roll your eyes all you want, but it's the mentality that's at work here.





And you think I don't know that?.....
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 7:22:23 AM EST
[#42]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Our goals should be:

1.  get that rating to 50 percent
2.  get it below 50 percent
3.  get it to 40 percent
4.  get it to 30 percent
etc.  

That is why I really dislike McCain: he could have at least run a campaign such that if Obama won he'd have higher negatives.


His people were too busy trying to get Palin's numbers down.



Not to worry. I'm sure we will see 30% once people realize that not only can he not keep his campaign promises but that his eceonmic policies aint gonna fix anything either. As iStated elsewhere, I predict he will be one of the least popular presidents by the end of his first and only term!
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 7:22:40 AM EST
[#43]
Wait a few week's and it will be lower. That will be the time the sheeple will realize that the check's will not be arriving.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 7:24:31 AM EST
[#44]
What and unadulterated load of horse-shit. How the hell can he have an approval rating yet? He has done exactly what to garner an opinion? This shows what crap polls are.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 7:25:01 AM EST
[#45]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
Our goals should be:

1.  get that rating to 50 percent
2.  get it below 50 percent
3.  get it to 40 percent
4.  get it to 30 percent
etc.  

That is why I really dislike McCain: he could have at least run a campaign such that if Obama won he'd have higher negatives.


His people were too busy trying to get Palin's numbers down.



Not to worry. I'm sure we will see 30% once people realize that not only can he not keep his campaign promises but that his eceonmic policies aint gonna fix anything either. As iStated elsewhere, I predict he will be one of the least popular presidents by the end of his first and only term!


People were already crying before the inauguration, and I'm talking about the people that voted for him. High numbers seldom last long past whatever major event caused them.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 7:25:01 AM EST
[#46]
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 7:26:11 AM EST
[#47]
I am surprised that his approval rating isn't up around 115%.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 7:30:19 AM EST
[#48]
let me go sit on the terlit and send him my message of approval  
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 7:36:47 AM EST
[#49]
Quoted:
I am surprised that his approval rating isn't up around 115%.


well played sir!
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 7:36:56 AM EST
[#50]
Quoted:
I am surprised that his approval rating isn't up around 115%.


well played sir!
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