Obama still going strong "Sixty-one at 50"

[ProSense]

Obama's honeymoon with Americans still going strong

Posted: 02:22 PM ET

From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Sixty-one at 50. President Barack Obama is halfway through his first 100 days in office and he's still enjoying a honeymoon with the American public, according to an average of recent polls.

Obama's job approval rating stands at 61 percent in a new CNN poll of polls, which averaged seven national surveys all conducted over the past two weeks.

"Obama's support is not as high as it was during the transition period and immediately after the inauguration, but approval from six in ten Americans is a pretty robust level of support," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

The 61 percent approval rating is also slightly higher than his predecessors' numbers around the same time. George W. Bush stood at 58 percent around 50 days into his administration, with Bill Clinton at 53 percent, George H.W. Bush at 56 percent and Ronald Reagan at 60 percent.

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[tridim]

1. I'm getting really sick of this "honeymoon" bullshit

Inauguration night was the only honeymoon he got.

Since then he has been 99% business and the people simply like what he's doing.

[Jennicut]

2. He sure never got a honeymoon from the so called pundits.

But Shrub got one for practically 5 years until Katrina.

[Cha]

5. And, that's another heinous example

of just who the enemy is.

[ProSense]

4. I don't care about CNN written headlines.

They'll probably continue using the term honeymoon through the next year.

[Cha]

3. And, this is inspite of the corporatemedia trying

to tear him down at every turn and keeping the bogus shitstorm stirred.