Poll shows swing voters hating everything Obama

A Fox News poll shows that most swing-voters think President Barack Obama is overstepping his legal authority by selectively enforcing Congress’ laws, such as the 2010 Obamacare law.

Sixty-six percent of independents, and 90 percent of Republicans said they disapprove of “Barack Obama going around Congress and using executive orders.”

Only 15 percent of independents, and 7 percent of conservatives, think Obama’s efforts to bypass Congress are “the way our government is supposed to work.”

The lopsided results in the February poll of 1,006 registered voters is a loud warning signal for Obama, who is relying on his extensive use of executive orders, regulations and unilateral actions to boost his policies and his supporters’ morale in the run-up to the November election.

The election is important because Republicans could win a narrow majority in the Senate, and help the GOP to develop a governing agenda to offer voters in 2016.

The poll also showed swing-voters are wary of Obama’s big-government agenda.

Sixty-two percent of independents, and 81 percent of Republicans, said the federal government is providing too many services to too many people. Ten percent of Republicans and 18 percent of independents believe government is not offering enough services.

Sixty-seven percent of independents, and 64 percent of Republicans, said the federal government’s policies have increased the wealth gap between rich and poor.

Meanwhile, Obama’s low ratings are threatening to drag Democratic candidates to defeat this fall, if the GOP avoids splits on immigration and the budget.

Fox News reported that Obama’s approval rating stands at a terrible 42 percent approval, 53 percent disapproval rating.

The top-line numbers hides a sharp partisan split and a terribly low level of support among decisive swing-voting independents. The independents give him only 29 percent approval, but 65 percent opposition.

Obama’s ratings are being held above 40 percent up by strong support from his core constituency of minorities.

For example, Democrats give him a 75 percent approval rating, and African-Americans give him an 84 percent approval rating.

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[CARTOON] Approval Ratings

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Obama’s Approval Rating Hits All-Time Low In RCP’s Poll Average, 40%…

Feel good story of the day.

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HILLARY CLINTON’S RATINGS UNDERWATER

The former Secretary of State’s favorability ratings have eroded among Independents and Republicans since she left Foggy Bottom.

Nearly nine months after leaving office, more Americans have an unfavorable than a favorable opinion of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to a recent YouGov/Economist poll. However, Clinton remains the indisputable favorite among Democrats to be their 2016 presidential nomination.

During much of her tenure as Secretary of State, Clinton enjoyed generally positive ratings, ratings that continued through much of the spring following her departure from Foggy Bottom: from January through April her net favorability numbers fell below +15 only three times.

But starting around mid-May of this year, the positive feelings began to recede and the secretary’s image has not recovered since, with nearly half of Americans (48%) now holding an unfavourable opinion of her, compared to 46% with a favourable one, for a net rating of -2.

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The shift in May suggests that negative press surrounding the tragic September 11, 2012 attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which led to the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, may have impacted views about Clinton and her tenure at the State Department.

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[VIDEO] Gallup: Support for ObamaCare drops more than 10 points net when you call it “ObamaCare” or mention Obama

Good lord. You know times are tough for The One when his big health-care stinkbomb actually starts smelling better to people the further removed from it he is.

I wonder if the White House already knows this from its own polling or if O’s decision to start calling it the “Affordable Care Act” again was just his way of shedding an increasingly heavy albatross. Who wants to be the one to tell him that the albatross is him?

I shouldn’t be surprised but I am. It stands to reason: Many a low-information voter out there couldn’t tell you the first thing about what ObamaCare does or what the problems with it are. All they know is that there are lots of people in the newspapers and on TV grumbling about it and progressively fewer people defending it. “ObamaCare” is bad, whatever it is. Throw the word “affordable” into the mix, though, and people start to perk up. Some of them doubtless are so ignorant about policy that they don’t know that the ACA is ObamaCare. They’re reacting to keywords here, essentially: “Affordable” good, “ObamaCare” bad. The reason I’m surprised is that I wouldn’t have guessed that O’s personal popularity had fallen so low that mentioning him in tandem with the “Affordable Care Act” actually drops support for it a few points. Until very recently, The One’s favorable rating — i.e. his personal popularity — had remained net positive even during periods when his job approval tanked. The Big Lie seems to have changed that, though. Mention “Obama” now in the context of health care and you see the numbers sink, either because the very ignorant are putting two and two together and realizing that the “Affordable Care Act” signed by Obama is in fact ObamaCare or because they now think so poorly of him personally that they reflexively downgrade any policy for which he’s responsible, whether or not they know the details of it. The latter may well be true — remember, in both the big ABC/WaPo poll a few days ago and the Pew poll I blogged last week, his numbers were in freefall on virtually every issue, not just (or especially) health care.

Just for fun, a reprise from last night’s QOTD via the Washington Free Beacon.

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Worst Obama approval ratings in two years, just 30% of independents support

President Obama’s approval ratings have dropped to their lowest in two years, driven by the public’s view that the nation is fast heading in the wrong direction and the desertion of his core support groups --- blacks, youth, women and independents.

Pollster John Zogby tells Secrets that the president has tumbled to a 43 percent approval rating, his worse since September 2011. Obama’s disapproval rating has hit 54 percent, his highest in two years.

And just 29 percent of the 1,000 likely voters polled September 17-18 said the country is heading in the right direction.

Zogby said that Obama is suffering from the bad debut of Obamacare and his fumbling of the crisis in Syria. Plus, he said, the president is at the mercy of a deeply divided Republican Congress that has even worse approval ratings.

But as has been the case for months now, Zogby’s polls have found a steep decline in support from the groups that helped to re-elect the president. Among blacks, Obama won 93 percent of their vote in 2012, but they now give him an 81 percent approval rating. Support of younger voters has dropped from 61 percent on Election Day to 47 percent. Hispanic approval has gone from 71 percent to 61 percent.

Via: Washington Examiner

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Congress sees bump in approval rating after resisting Syria action

Congress’s approval rating rose to the highest level in nearly a year as lawmakers resisted President Obama’s call for military action against Syria.

A new Gallup poll released Thursday found a 5-percentage-point increase in Congress’s popularity to 19 percent.

Congress's approval rating was likely buoyed by the Syria debate, which saw Obama ask Congress to authorize the use of military force in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack.

Lawmakers expressed skepticism about the request, and it appeared that Obama had not corralled enough votes for an authorization before Syria's offer to turn over its chemical weapons cache earlier this week. With polling consistently showing that Americans disapproved of military action, Congress's resistance to action might have benefited their poll numbers.

"The timing of the recent poll — closely following the president's request for authorization to use force in Syria — combined with Americans' opposition to such action suggests that Congress' apparent lack of enthusiasm about this military intervention may be the reason for the increase in its approval rating," said Gallup's Jeffrey Jones in a release. 

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NBC News: Obama Job Approval Falls Back to All-Time Low

Job Approval on Economy | Job Approval on Foreign Policy

Polling Data

Poll	Date	Sample	Approve	Disapprove	Spread
RCP Average	8/23 - 8/29	--	44.2	50.4	-6.2
NBC News	8/28 - 8/29	700 A	44	48	-4
Gallup	8/27 - 8/29	1500 A	46	47	-1
Rasmussen Reports	8/27 - 8/29	1500 LV	48	50	-2
Reuters/Ipsos	8/23 - 8/27	2293 A	42	52	-10
The Economist/YouGov	8/24 - 8/26	672 RV	41	55	-14

All President Obama Job Approval Polling Data

RCP POLL AVERAGE President Obama Job Approval

44.2 Approve 50.4 Disapprove

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