Obama's Approval Rating Finally Above 50 Percent
Pollster John Zogby updates our weekly Obama Report Card with a grade on the president's performance. Zogby uses his polling, expert analysis, and interaction with major players to come up with a grade and some comments that capture how he sees the president's week ending.
John Zogby on Week 37:
"Our latest interactive poll has Obama's approval rating over 50 percent for the first time since spring. He has taken better control of the healthcare debate and carried himself well at the United Nations and the G-20 meetings. Iran's nuclear program gives him one more big problem to handle, but also put him in the spotlight as a guardian of national security."
Grade for the week: B-
Last week: C
John Zogby is president and CEO of Zogby International, a public opinion, research, and business solutions firm with experience working in more than 70 countries around the globe. Founded and led by Zogby since 1984, Zogby International specializes in telephone, Internet, and face-to-face survey research and analysis for corporate, political, nonprofit, and governmental clients. The firm is headquartered in Utica, N.Y. John Zogby is also the author of The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream (Random House).
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WOW
I agree 100%. the guys is a freaking idiot. i hate stupid democrats that don't really want what is best. these people are born "liberated" which is a bad excuse for wanting to be different whether it is good or bad. every B*itched and moaned about bush spending the money that he did but if i recall correctly, the deficit is 3 or 4 times what is was a year ago. ONE YEAR and this a-hole puts us in that much more of a hole. i really didn't understand "cash for clunkers"? did any of you? let's be honest, if you drove a "clunker" it is because you cannot afford to buy a new vehicle in the first place. so what does obama do? lets help those people who wont help themselves, giving handouts. i am a 22 yr old student who is paying for his own vehicle, house, and tuition. that idiot wont even give me financial aid because i make too much money. i guess since he comes from a rich family he doesnt know how much tuition is. back to the clunker statement, people who have a piece of junk drive it because they cant afford anything better. we are in this economical crisis because banks loaned money to poor people with fluctuating interest rates that ultimately they couldnt pay back when the rates fluctuated. foreclosure. so obama comes up with bright idea that we should give poor people loans on cars they cant afford. what happens now asks the uneducated tree huggers? the people who couldnt afford the vehicles to begin with still cannot, therefore they wil not pay of their loan for the vehicle because they still cannot afford it and the banks are now out more money than they were prior to the cash for clunkers BS. good call obama, good call. oh yea did i mention that i pay for my own healthcare also? it is the way the world works. work hard, provide for your family, and prosper. if you dont do any of the above it is because you are lazy. i wont take the excuse that people grow up in bad situations and are not properly educated because i grew up in a small town in east texas where no one is eduacated and the average salary per year is less than $14,000 per year. it can be done if you work. and the reason every other nation has universal healthcare and does it well is because every other communist country isnt america. we are better because we are different. there is a reason every nationality wants to live here and believe me, it isnt because we suck and they are helping us. it is clearly because we are better! i hate politics because it really doesnt matter what we think or say they do what they want regardless. all it does is ruin our day and make us mad so i am finished. let us be a little smarter next election America please?
Grade B-
Why is 50% a B minus? sounds like a D to me.
The polls reflect the news media's choice of stories. We still have a deficit 4 times larger than Gerge W. Bush, an expensive "stimulus" plan that creates more job losses, and a weakened national security. Not tho mention a Healthcare Bill that when all is said and done (and tons of money spent) we will still haveas many people uninsured (according to the Congressional Budget Office).
zogby
Your tea leaves stink. Go back to sandbox.
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