Obama approval ratings still below 50 percent

CBS

CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.

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President Obama's job approval rating remains just below 50 percent, virtually unchanged from three weeks ago, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll released Wednesday.

About 47 percent approve of the way he has handled his job as president, while 44 percent disapprove. That compares to 48 percent and 43 percent respectively three weeks ago.

On the economy specifically, just 39 percent think he is doing a good job, compared to 37 percent in early June. The only change since three weeks ago that is not within the three percentage point margin of error is a four percentage point decline in Mr. Obama's disapproval ratings on the economy. About 52 percent of respondents disapprove of his handling of the economy, compared with 56 percent disapproval three weeks ago.

Yet few blame Mr. Obama for the economic conditions in the United States. Just 8 percent say Mr. Obama is "most to blame" for the state of the economy, compared to 7 percent earlier. About 26 percent blame his predecessor, President George W. Bush, and 25 percent blame Wall Street. Those figures compare with 28 percent and 22 percent three weeks ago.

Eleven percent of respondents said Congress was mostly to blame, compared to 10 percent in early June.

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The economy grew at just a 1.8 percent annualized rate in the first three months of the year. The unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent in June as employers added just 54,000 jobs, the slowest pace in eight months.

The Federal Reserve last week again lowered its estimate for economic growth this year and next. It also raised its forecast for unemployment, predicting the jobless rate at the end of next year would fall in a range between 7.8 percent and 8.2 percent, compared with a 7.6 percent to 7.9 percent range predicted just two months earlier.

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This poll was conducted among a random sample of 979 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone June 24-28, 2011. 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.

[tinner110]

hows that hope and change working out

[tinner110]

Obama is toast!!!!!!!

[TAUG10]

Ok.......it's not like Obama came into office and and unleased havoc. The issues with the economy, unemployment, and healthcare have all been stemming from previous presidencies......let us not forget that important fact, just because someone isn't too fond of the man. With that being said, I'm not completely removing the blame from Obama......he is at fault, but so are a whole lot of OTHER PEOPLE.......i.e., *members of congress* for example! And might I just add......Obama will most likely be reelected, because if the current Republican candidates are the best one can do........his victory is definite.

[HemiHead66]

Any time you see Obama & socialism written in the same post you know it came from a propaganda pushing liar, or someone with brains the size of a gnats a$$. This is a 100% defacto fascist country now, the corporation owns our Govt. And this country is in the process of being sold off to investors all around the world. Everything is going, water rights, water treatment, schools, highways, tolls, bridges, parking lots, parking meters, hospitals, etc. etc. Let's see how you like paying to increase someone's stock price every year. You see the way we pay double the world for healthcare and rank 37th on the list, now you can pay double the world for everything. Then you right-wing-rejects can explain to everyone how this is soooo much better for our lives.

[magnumdr]

Obama still has a 100% rating with me!

[Progress4U]

by DJ_The_American June 29, 2011 12:00 PM EDT
I don't know where you got the "Majority of Americans" from, but you need to rethink that. Right now it is about Half
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DJ... I know you're still learing to read, but take this slowly and think about what it's saying: "About 26 percent blame his predecessor, President George W. Bush, and 25 percent blame Wall Street."

[Progress4U]

by DJ_The_American June 29, 2011 12:02 PM EDT
"Where were the Job bills with the Democratic led House? Seems the same could be said about the Democrats./"
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Yes DJ...we've been down this road many times. Dems have and still continue to propose job creation bills like the high-speed rail bill that was defeated by the GOP lead house. That would have been 1 million jobs for blue collar workers. Like bill have been proposed in the Senate, but the GOP filibusters.

[DJ_The_American]

by KPeters_from_UK June 29, 2011 11:29 AM EDT
And Bush was what? On point; Obama would have to be caught with a dead prostitute in order to get his approval rating to fall down to Bush's lowest of 22 percent!

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Kpeters,

What was Bushes Approval rating on June 29, 2003? If you are going to talk about Approval ratings, you have to use the same time frame buddy

[democracy5]

Same time frame does not = same set of circumstances to be addressed now, does it?

[Progress4U]

About 60%...then made a toboggan slide downward.

[Progress4U]

"Yet few blame Mr. Obama for the economic conditions in the United States. Just 8 percent say Mr. Obama is "most to blame" for the state of the economy, compared to 7 percent earlier. About 26 percent blame his predecessor, President George W. Bush, and 25 percent blame Wall Street."
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The majority of America understands what's been going on these past 10 years. Obama is leading us out of the abyss!

[DJ_The_American]

I don't know where you got the "Majority of Americans" from, but you need to rethink that. Right now it is about Half

[ITSOVERNOW]

If its a CBS/NYTimes Poll, you can be assured his approval rating is inflated.