UK Press Gives Obama an "F" for His Historically Low Approval Rating
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 1:50 PM
Nile Gardner at The Telegraph reported on the historically unpopular president.
The Telegraph wades into waters off limits for the American state-run media.
Barack Obama gave himself a B+ on Oprah Winfrey’s White House Christmas Special on ABC, but the American public is far less generous. The latest influential Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll of likely US voters gives Obama a thumping 56 percent disapproval rating – an F grade by any measure. 46 percent strongly disapprove of the president’s job performance, while just 25 percent strongly approve. That’s a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21 percentage points, a staggering figure for a president just 11 months into his term of office.
These are historically low approval ratings for a US president, that concur with those released by several other pollsters, including NBC News/Wall Street Journal, who recently reported a 47 percent approval for Obama, and Quinnipiac and Marist, both at 46 percent.
The latest Gallup Survey gives Obama just 50 percent approval, lower than any president in the first December of his first term in the post-war period, with the exception of Ronald Reagan in 1981, at 49 percent, who inherited a country literally brought to its knees by the Carter presidency before later restoring it to greatness. Reagan eventually left office with a 68 percent approval.
At the same stage of their presidencies, George W. Bush polled at 81 percent approval, John F. Kennedy at 77 percent, George H.W. Bush at 71 percent, Dwight Eisenhower at 69 percent, Richard Nixon at 59 percent, Jimmy Carter at 57 percent, and Bill Clinton at 53 percent.
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Published May 23, 2012 at 11:51 pm - 65 Comments
Consultant55 commented:
Michelle H. Obama’s unfavorable ratings increasing. Approval ratings down too.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/december_2009/55_view_michelle_obama_favorably
jenny commented:
mmm…mmm…mmm Obama, making James Buchanan and Jimmy Carter look like political geniuses.
olm commented:
Let’s think about that for a minute. 46% strongly disapprove.
This is a narcissist who has been on a stage with Greek Columns for goodness sake. I guess the higher their pedestal the faster and harder they fall.
Ted commented:
25% STRONGLY Approve?
12.8% of the US population is Black.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
89% of Blacks LOVE OBAMA.
http://www.willisms.com/archives/2009/12/trivia_tidbit_o_717.html
89% of 13% is 11.4%
14% of Americans are employed by the government.
http://www.prb.org/Articles/2002/TheSizeandShapeofAmericasGovernment.aspx
11.4 + 14 = 25.4%
Ted commented:
America: Only 25% stupid.
John commented:
The Daily Telegraph was one of Obama’s cheerleaders here in the UK. Buyer’s remorse perhaps?
T. Shaw commented:
RACISTS!!!!!!!
bill-tb commented:
Hopey changey tunred into just another lump of coal, without Bush’s high approval rating.
I suspect the Europeans were way to comfy in the shadow of Bush in their hammocks. Iran is now a real threat to them.
Our feckless dear reader was supposed to change the world, what happened.
wth commented:
Historic.
ahem commented:
Those ratings would serve as a wake-up call if his entire administration wasn’t composed of marxists and maoists.
Christian Toto commented:
The British press has reported plenty of inconvenient truths regarding the Obama presidency. Good for them … since you won’t find that kind of tough but fair treatment here. Had this media outlet given Obama an A rating it would have been a lead story on CNN.com and other outlets.