Home Opinion CBS News Polls Nov. 17, 2009
Obama's Approval Rating Slips to 53%
CBS News Poll: Handling of Afghanistan Fuels Three Point Dip; Decrease Most Noticeable Among Independents


I guess it just shows Polls are only as good as the pollee and the questions asked.


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/17/opinion/polls/main5680779.shtml

Yeah, people dont understand that estimates, polls and projections are not exact sciences and will have a margin of error that can be as low as 1% or as high as 7% or 8%,,depending upon how the information is collected.

Here's the rest of the article;

President Barack Obama is being greeted warmly in China, but back in the U.S. his overall approval rating has slipped to 53 percent, according to a new CBS News poll.

Approval for Mr. Obama's handling of the situation in Afghanistan has dropped as well as more Americans now disapprove than approve.

However, a majority of Americans still approve of the way Mr. Obama is handling his job as president, but this percentage is down three points. Fifty-three percent of Americans approve of how he's handling his job, down from 56 percent last month.

The president's approval rating has dropped seven points among independents. Forty-five percent of independents now approve of how the president is handling his job. Last month, a majority of 52 percent approved.

Assessments of how Mr. Obama is handling the war in Afghanistan have become more negative since early October. Thirty-eight percent now approve of how President Obama is handling the war - but even more, 43 percent, disapprove. Disapproval has risen nine points, from 34 percent last month.

Again, most of the change has occurred among independents. Last month, 44 percent of independents approved and 36 percent disapproved of the job Mr. Obama was doing on Afghanistan. Now, more independents disapprove than approve: 49 percent disapprove, and just 30 percent approve.

Answers to this question also predictably fall along partisan lines. Just 23 percent of Republicans approve of the job Mr. Obama was doing on Afghanistan, compared to 57 percent of Democrats. Sixty percent of Republicans disapprove, compared to 24 percent of Democrats.

As for how Americans feel about the way Mr. Obama is handling foreign policy overall, the poll finds that 50 percent approve - not much different from last month. But disapproval of his handling of foreign policy has risen as well - from 28 percent last month to 36 percent now.

Also, unlike Rasmussen's daily poll,

This poll was conducted among a random sample of 1,167 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone November 13-16, 2009. Phone numbers were dialed from random digit dial samples of both standard land-line and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher.

This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.

nice try...he's at 46% in Rasmussen and Zogby...like the Mobfather says..." he's immature...inexperienced...and...in over his head ! "...he's been a complete failure...he's made everything worse...

Obama should come out with his well thought out decision on Afghanistan this week.
A well thought out decision. I'll bet his numbers will reflect a change then.

Of course when every Republican left in America votes against everything he does it will always be hard to reflect a real high approval rating.

The Republican Party seems to be more anti-Obama these days than Pro-America.

being anti-Obama IS Pro-American !!!!!...his agenda needs to be stopped !...as for Aghanistan...his heart is just not in it...hence: dithering...

I mean how many times can they come out with every member against every bill Obama brings up before the members of the Republican Party get a clue.

The Republican Party is Anti-American.
Behaving like puppets controlled by puppeteers, (Big Business, the AMA, and Insurance conglomerates), they are standing in the way of Americas recovery to greatness.

they don't have the numbers to stand in the way of anything...they vote against Tyranny...and...they stand for Liberty...

No,
the stubborn blind minority, 3? %, who still supported the Dictator Bush have just been joined by a few more minorities. The fearful of change group, and the racist (I just can't stand a Black President) group.
At least those afraid of change can be rationally understood. Those who continue to support Bush and the racist have no rationale.

The Democrats arent just voting blindly along party lines like the Republicans.
They actually have the ability to think for themselves.

how do you know that you've won a arguement with a Liberal ?...they call you a racist...

I didn't call anyone by name a racist.

How do you know you've won an arguement with a Republican?
When they use that weak *** stepping stone.
Besides, I'm an Independent.

'... immature,

... inexperienced, and in over his head!

...he's been a complete failure.

..he's made everything worse...'

'Giocamo', Please stay on topic. This post is not about BUSH!!! Your failed hero has retired from the presidency nearly a year ago!

I realize change is a difficult thing to accept for some of us, but there is this limit beyond which DELUSION takes over, and leaves one with no credibility whatsoever. Sort of that 'fool on the hill' of the famous 'Strawberry field', FOREVER!!!

AMERICA have spoken!!! Obama is the USA's leader and president. There is only one way to be PRO-AMERICAN:

'... critique constructively as much as you see fit, but stand unconditionally behind the leader that the US of A has DEMOCRATICALLY AND MOST UNEQUIVOCALLY CHOSEN as President'.

Anything short of that, can be is nothing other than ANTI-AMERICAN.

What's up my friend?

Lovin' to see you on the 'front' again, callin' the 'delusional bluff', and keepin' things straight!


Cheers to you Fanta!

There's definitely a problem when every bill that comes up to vote is rejected by every Republican in Congress!

I have never in my life seen either psrty vote as one so many times.

Roadmap to a new breed of fascism.

Under the masks of (false) fight for freedom and ethno-centric nationalism, the Republican party is fast loosing its credible and democratic privileges.

It would appear that the GOP has been naively tempted, and has let the 'GENIE' of the diabolical and dogmatic 'religious right' kind,
... OUT of the LAMP', and have no idea how to get the 'devil-back-in'.

Left-right balance is fundamental to any democratic society.

As the 2 party reality that it is, the USA is threatened, IMO by something far more debilitating than any black or white president.

When everything MUST BE ONE COLOR, ONE IDEOLOGY, ONE BELIEF AND CREED, AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS 'EVIL', there is NO FREEDOM LEFT, AND NO POSSIBLE DEMOCRACY!!!

Bush son said something to that effect recently, and I paraphrase: '... the future political success of the GOP rests essentially on the party claiming back control from the out of control fanatic religious right activists and their dogmatic ideology ...'.

Nothing wrong with the 'old' GOP. Everything wrong with dogmatic neo-fascism, hypocritically invading an otherwise legitimate political movement, even when that movement is the Good Old Republican Party.

Well said!

I dont think it means much

at this same point in his first term Bush was at something like 80% approval and look what happened to him