Gallup daily tracking poll: Obama 48/44 approval

[WI_DEM]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/gallup-daily-obama-job-approval.aspx

I don't get all these media reports that Obama is losing popularity. In Gallup Daily tracking he has been between 45-50 percent for months. It might go down for a couple of days and then it goes back up for a few days. It has really been consistent.

[DavidDvorkin]

1. The media kept telling us that Bush was popular

even as polls showed his popularity dropping steadily.

I guess they make their own reality. Rather, they believe that they can make something reality if they repeat it often enough. I keep fearing that they're right.

[Pirate Smile]

2. The media has a narrative - "Obama's polls and popularity are plummeting" - and they only report on

polls and stories that reinforce that narrative. Anything countering the narrative or falling outside of it will be ignored. They had the narrative of Bush as a popular president for long after the polling and evidence proved otherwise.

[StevieM]

5. Seriously, to listen to Fox News he should be at 0% right now, based on how many times his approval

numbers have supposedly "plummeted further."

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

3. His polls numbers haven't seem to fall below 43%. They tend to fluctuate

between 43% and 50%+.

And yet, the M$M is obsessed with bringing this president down.

Meanwhile, at this stage in his presidency, Ronnie Ray-gun, had an abysmal approval rating of just 35%. But the M$M won't tell you that. They worship at the alter of the Almighty Ray-gun!! :puke::puke:

[earth mom]

4. So are you saying 48/44 is good?

:wtf:

[Politics_Guy25]

6. He's down 1 from yesterday from 49

And will he ever see 50%+ again in Gallup's daily tracking? 50% seems to be a mark too high for him in Gallup. He hasn't reached it since MAY. Fact is he's been bouncing around in the low to mid 40s unable to reach 50% or higher for 5 months now with polls across the board on average and 2 months with Gallup. He can't even retain 49% approval for more than a day.

[WI_DEM]

12. Here are all the polls from the month of July so far:

Pollster Dates N/Pop Approve Disapprove Undecided
Rasmussen 7/16-18/10 1500 LV 47 52 -
Gallup 7/15-17/10 1500 A 49 44 -
Rasmussen 7/13-15/10 1500 LV 46 54 -
FOX 7/13-14/10 900 RV 43 48 9
Gallup 7/12-14/10 1500 A 44 48 -
Time 7/12-13/10 1002 A 49 45 6
YouGov/Polimetrix 7/10-13/10 1000 A 48 45 7
Rasmussen 7/10-12/10 1500 LV 48 52 -
CBS News 7/9-12/10 966 A 44 44 12
PPP (D) 7/9-12/10 667 RV 45 52 3
Bloomberg 7/9-12/10 1002 A 52 44 4
Gallup 7/9-11/10 1500 A 47 46 -
ABC/Post 7/7-11/10 1288 A 50 47 3
Rasmussen 7/7-9/10 1500 LV 47 52 -
Gallup 7/6-8/10 1500 A 45 48 -
YouGov/Polimetrix 7/3-6/10 1000 A 43 52 6
Rasmussen 7/1-6/10 1500 LV 45 54 -


You say he "may not see 50 again" and "fact is he's been bouncing around from low to mid 40's" actually very few of the polls have been low 40's and most have been mid to high 40's and two polls Bloomberg and ABC have him at 50 or above. Actually if you look at pollster.com he has been pretty consistent for months and the sky has hardly been falling. When compared to other presidents like Reagan and Clinton at similar periods he is holding up quite well.

http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/jobapproval-obama.php

[Inuca]

7. S/he is saying

1. it has been within a close range for quite some time, i.e., it's not "plumetting"
2. under the circusmtances, 48/44 while not great is far from bad

[Politics_Guy25]

8. It was 48 this time last week too-then down to 44-same thing will happen this week

I bet it's 43% by Thursday. I won't celebrate until he hits 50% and stays there for 2-3 days. I'm so pissed at this.

[Inuca]

9. I wasn't celebrating

I do not like the numbers. I was just saying that, realively speaking, they are not as bad as many make them sound.

[Politics_Guy25]

11. Oh I know you weren't celebrating

Sorry to seem to imply that.

I still can't believe that we have the poltiical climate right now that we have. I totally didn't expect this back the night of the Grant Park victory speech.

[Inuca]

13. I did not expect it either

But maybe we were both (together with many, many others) too giddy amd emotional. I know I was. I am thinking about the MLK quote that Obama likes so much, the one about the arc of history bending slowly. We though that all of a sudden it took a sharp turn. Unfortunately it does not work that way. But I deeply belive that it DOES bend toward progress. And the Grant Park night helped it on its way.

[Hawkowl]

15. I think they call call that "margin of error"

So technically, his polling percentage is probably rock solid, neither falling nor rising.

[WI_DEM]

10. compared to many other presidents at similar times in their administrations--yes

Clinton and Reagan for example.

[Phx_Dem]

14. It ain't bad!!! At all. Not in this economic environment.