This is from Gallup, and it is directly related to a blog from Breitbart which has been posted. This documents the Breitbart article and is just amazing to me. As I have already said, how did he get re-elected given some of these numbers?
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PRINCETON, NJ -- President Obama earns a 39% job approval rating for his handling of the economy, similar to his ratings on the issue one year ago. Among domestic issues, Obama's rating on the economy is above only his 31% rating for handling the federal deficit. Across nine issues, Americans give Obama his highest approval ratings for handling national defense (53%), followed by foreign affairs and immigration, each at 46%.
If President Obama focuses on the economy in his fourth State of the Union address Tuesday night, as news reports indicate he will do, he will be dealing with an area in which the American public gives him relatively low performance ratings. The president's 39% rating on handling the economy is essentially the same as the 38% from this time last year, although lower than the ratings of 45% and 44% he received just before and just after last November's presidential election. Obama received his lowest rating on the economy (26%) in August 2011, in the aftermath of the debt ceiling fight in Washington. Obama earned his highest economic rating, 59%, in February 2009 -- in the first measure after he took office.
Obama receives a 51% overall job approval rating in the Feb. 7-10 World Affairs survey, meaning that the president comparatively underperforms on all but one of the specific issues measured. This could reflect strong perceived performance on issues that were not included in the survey, and may reflect Americans' broadly positive view of Obama as a person, including the consistently high "likability" image he enjoyed during the presidential campaign.
Broadly speaking, most of the president's other issue ratings are quite similar to when Gallup last measured them.
See page 2 to view the complete trends.
Partisan Gulf in Issue Ratings
Republicans' ratings of Obama on each of these nine issues are dramatically lower than Democrats' -- which fits with the generally polarized nature of the way Americans evaluate the president these days. Obama's and his predecessor George W. Bush's ratings have been among the most polarized of the post-World War II era.
The gaps in the approval ratings Republicans and Democrats give Obama are consistently large, ranging from a 54-percentage-point difference on the federal budget deficit (Democrats' rating is 61% vs. Republicans' 7%) to 65 points on the economy (75% vs. 10%). Republicans and Democrats each give Obama his highest rating on national defense (foreign affairs ties for the highest among Democrats), and both groups of partisans give him his lowest rating on handing the deficit.
Independents' ratings fall between these two groups' ratings in all instances, and generally hew to the same rank order. The range in independents' ratings, however, is larger than for either of the two partisan groups -- encompassing a 31-point spread between their 55% rating of Obama's handling of national defense and their 24% rating for handling the deficit. This contrasts with gaps of 14 and 17 points, respectively, between Republicans' and Democrats' highest and lowest ratings on the nine issues.
Implications
President Obama will make his State of the Union address Tuesday with an overall approval rating slightly above 50%, but with approval that is below that majority threshold on a number of key issues. His rating on the economy is now at 39%, underscoring the wisdom of his expected focus on the economy and jobs. Obama's relative strengths at this point in time are national defense, along with foreign affairs and immigration, although it is unclear how much time he will devote in the speech to any of these.
Obama in most respects finds himself in a situation akin to the one he was in a year ago -- a job approval rating at roughly the 50% level, and approval ratings on issues very similar to where they are now.
Explore President Obama's approval ratings in depth and compare them with those of past presidents in the Gallup Presidential Job Approval Center.
Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Feb. 7-10, 2013, with a random sample of 1,015 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 50% cell phone respondents and 50% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by region. Landline telephone numbers are chosen at random among listed telephone numbers. Cell phones numbers are selected using random digit dial methods. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.
Samples are weighted to correct for unequal selection probability, nonresponse, and double coverage of landline and cell users in the two sampling frames. They are also weighted to match the national demographics of gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, population density, and phone status (cellphone only/landline only/both, cellphone mostly, and having an unlisted landline number). Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2012 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older U.S. population. Phone status targets are based on the July-December 2011 National Health Interview Survey. Population density targets are based on the 2010 census. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting.
In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
For more details on Gallup's polling methodology, visit www.gallup.com.
If you're not already aware. This is what's going on in DC while dangerous criminals are allowed back out on the streets. It's horrifying that this is happening to our citizens and veterans for protesting the hijacking of our election process. This is still happening! They are STILL being tortured and treated like full on terrorists.
You may not be aware of the typical things they're forced to go through...…
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