While President Barack Obama’s overall approval rating averaged 48 percent for the first seven months of 2010, it was 78 percent among Muslim Americans, according to the Gallup Poll. That gave the president a higher approval rating among Muslims than among any other religious category reported by the poll. Members of other non-Christian [Continue]
Barry must be feeling like a parent whose child decided to write a "Mommy Dearest" memoir. As the President relentlessly presses on with plans to "share the wealth," even intended recipients of Obama-bestowed entitlements are abandoning the hope and change caravan as if it were a burning ship. To date, Obama's meteoric [Continue]
But you’ll have a hell of a time finding it at either USA Today or at Gallup, which partnered with the newspaper for the poll. The USA Today lead on the survey is that approval for the war in Afghanistan has dropped since the Wikileaks exposure of internal documents from the military, and that decline [Continue]
President Obama intends to bypass Congress and appoint Dr. Donald Berwick to head Medicare and Medicaid, the White House announced Tuesday — filling the job while Congress is in recess to get around Republican opposition that threatened to derail Berwick's confirmation. Berwick's supporters say he is the right man in the right [Continue]
Unlike Katie Couric on Monday night, on Wednesday evening NBC's Brian Williams didn't hide the bad news for President Obama in the network's latest poll, but Williams and Savannah Guthrie sure seemed to lament the public mood's swing against Obama as Williams attributed it to how Obama “had to touch” the gulf oil [Continue]
For Sunday, the Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll reveals that 28 percent of the country's voters Strongly Approve of the method that Barack Oabama is performing his role as president. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -16. Rasmussen Reports that, "the [Continue]
June 19, 1987To the Senate of the United States: I am returning herewith without my approval S. 742, the “Fairness in Broadcasting Act of 1987,'' which would codify the so-called “fairness doctrine.'' This doctrine, which has evolved through the decisional process of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), [Continue]
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 25% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-six percent (46%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21 (see trends). These results are based upon [Continue]
Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval Each result is based on a three-day rolling average Gallup tracks daily the percentage of Americans who approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president. Results are based on telephone interviews with approximately 1,500 national adults; Margin of error is ±3 percentage [Continue]
Obama down to 44% approval rating. Gallup tracks daily the percentage of Americans who approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president. Results are based on telephone interviews with approximately 1,500 national adults; Margin of error is ±3 percentage points. source.. Comment by American Grand Jury: This is Gallup.. they are [Continue]
While we are heading for a huge showdown with the proposed Ground Zero mega-Mosque, we have taken it on the chin tonight. The other day, I posted an article stating that the Plan Commission had approved the Mosque proposal. So the next step was the town board. As promised, I called the board chairman Mr.Gartman [Continue]
Crucially, Greek officials said the plan included potentially politically explosive measures that would make it easier to lay off thousands of public sector workers, whose generous salaries and benefits have been a key cause of Greek’s debt problem. Until now, the government has not been able to lay off civil servants, whose employment rights [Continue]
This bit of news is fascinating, if only because it hews to what one side predicted, and the other did not: “A new Democracy Corps survey finds the passage of health care reform ‘did not produce even a point rise in the president’s approval rating or affection for the Democratic Congress… Virtually every key tracking [Continue]
It’s not just one poll he’s behind in, it’s three! When you are behind in one poll it’s easy to say “that’s just one poll, it doesn’t mean anything.” When you are behind in THREE, it’s serious. So much for any bounce Obama and the Democrats expected from passing health care (a bill which 58% [Continue]
