Obama, Quinn Job Approval Ratings Dip In Illinois

Job approval ratings for both President Barack Obama and Governor Pat Quinn, both Democrats, are dipping low in their home state.

According to a FOX Chicago/We Ask America poll conducted late last month, job approval for President Obama has dipped just below 50 percent among registered Illinois voters. Though Obama still leads all of his leading Republican challengers, his lead is nowhere near the large margin of victory he held over John McCain in the historic fall 2008 election.

The job approval numbers mark a five percent drop since We Ask America's previous poll of registered voters in Illinois in July, but still remain higher than the national average. A HuffPost-Pollster trend estimate last put his approval rating at 41.9 percent. By comparison, fall 2010 exit polling estimated Obama's job approval rating at 44 percent nationally, while 54 percent disapproved.

Incidentally, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney appeared to have fared the best of Obama's Republican rivals among Illinois voters, garnering 35 percent support compared to Obama's 50. Herman Cain, the Illinois Tea Party's recent straw poll winner, only attracted 30 percent support against Obama's 53 percent.

The HuffPost-Pollster analysis also estimated that Obama continues to outpace the Republican presidential candidates by just under 4 percentage points.

At the state level, the same poll also showed Governor Quinn struggling, as only 29.6 percent of registered voters approved of his job performance, while another 60 percent disapproved. Quinn has faced criticism over the income tax hike, lingering unemployment and a number of other issues.

Quinn's drop in approval marks a less steep decline than Obama's, however. In March, the last time We Ask America polled Illinoisans on their governor's job performance, still just 30.6 percent of registered voters approved. He is up for re-election in 2014.

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Comments

[cromwell1650]

05:57 PM on 10/06/2011

The biggest problem Obama faces in the Great Lakes is that it is Tea Party central. He won't win Indiana again, and he will almost certainly lose Michigan. Since voter ID proof became law in Wisc. the left has lost nearly everything at the ballot box. Outside of Chicago, Illinois is pretty red. Nearly all of the Republican reps from Illinois (and there are more rs than ds) are Tea Party faithful. There is a real socio-political shift in that region that is obvious even on paper.

[corwin]

12:19 PM on 10/05/2011

There are lots of places where QUinn is unknown.So,his ratings can't fall. Not so for the Prez.

[RageVsMachine]

01:22 PM on 10/05/2011

like Iceland? Do you really think the average Illinoisan doesn't know who Quinn is?

[Union Taxpayer]

04:07 PM on 10/05/2011

Acually...yes. You'd be surprised at how many people have absolutely no idea who there leaders are and what they stand for, but you can bet that they think their being screwed by those same leaders that they haven't got a clue about.

[corwin]

05:22 PM on 10/05/2011

"There are lots of places where Quinn is unknown"
That's kind of a self contained statement. The reference is to the fact Gov Quinn's ratings aren't falling in ,say, New York,or Delaware.As are president Obama's

[Fletch55]

04:17 PM on 10/05/2011

If your in Illinois and do not know Quinn is the governor and destroying the state just as Obama did as a senator then you need help as its a daily topic through out the state along with the need to overide Chicago push to keep the state democrati run which has put the state in a huge deficiet. Time to get rid of Quinn, Obama, and esecially Durbin.

[Eagleman]

09:18 AM on 10/05/2011

This time we will see Obama 2012 campaigning against Obama 2008

I feel sorry for this guy...

[Paul Conrad]

12:12 PM on 10/05/2011

Any Obama will still beat Romney 2012.

[Aldyth]

08:23 AM on 10/05/2011

Probably because one is a weak president and the other is an incompetent governor. They've earned the low regard of the voters.

[wssweeps]

11:21 PM on 10/04/2011

Of course we in Ilinois know them for what they are. A street gang orginazier, and a liar.

[bidensaidwhat]

08:46 AM on 10/05/2011

Barack MOsely Braun and Quinnocchio

[BluebirdofUnhappiness]

10:06 PM on 10/04/2011

Cool. Ford's bringing 1000 more jobs to the Hegewish plant.

[Fletch55]

04:21 PM on 10/05/2011

Not if Quinn and Obama can help it. They will do their best to kill those jobs before they get here..

[BluebirdofUnhappiness]

09:02 PM on 10/05/2011

Written by an XXXXt, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[BluebirdofUnhappiness]

09:06 PM on 10/04/2011

What a dumstory. His approval rate is lower than his election margin. But he still leads the Repub frontrunner by 15%.
"Incidentally, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney appeared to have fared the best of Obama's Republican rivals among Illinois voters, garnering 35 percent support compared to Obama's 50."

[knightoftheroundtable]

08:16 PM on 10/04/2011

I wish Quinn would resign now. My bow wow could do a better job even though his breath is really awful.

[Bude]

07:53 PM on 10/04/2011

If the election was today, Blagojevich would beat Quinn in a primary, and he's going to jail.

Imagine how awful Quinn's republican opponent in the last election must have been!

[boyruns]

09:55 PM on 10/04/2011

no way. nope.

[Fletch55]

04:24 PM on 10/05/2011

Quinns opponent was Kirk and he was a much better canidate but in Illinois the polls are usually democratic controlled and where I voted which carried a high republican support we were denied entance to vote. My polling place refused no less then 100 people when i went as they moved the polling station didnt send letters to notify voters of new zones and then locked doors on people in line at 7 pm saying anyone not in the door was not allowed even though the state law says anyone in line prior to 7 pm has to be allowed to cast votes. Won't happen again.

[Paul Conrad]

04:27 PM on 10/05/2011

You must not live in Illinois because Mark Kirk ran for, and was elected to the US Senate as a, wait for it, Republican.

[Bude]

07:20 PM on 10/04/2011

Rat Quinn is as much a union buster as Scott Walker.

The first thing he did when he was finally elected was to give all his staff raises. Now he's cutting union workers and reneging on binding contracts.

Imagine how God awful Quinn's republican challenger must have been to lose to him!

[wssweeps]

11:19 PM on 10/04/2011

Bude, The republican didn't lose, the repub. sen. won by a 100,000 votes, the repub. gov. candidate got just as many, the dems stole the govs seat. Chicago politics

[Paul Conrad]

12:10 PM on 10/05/2011

That's what Republicans always say when they lose. It's not the fact that they nominated a radical tea party nut that cost them a very winnable election. No, somebody must have stolen the election.

[RageVsMachine]

01:24 PM on 10/05/2011

we could then argue that gore didn't lose in 2000, but rather the conservative scotus stole the seat from the dems.

[Fletch55]

04:26 PM on 10/05/2011

We would be so lucky if Quinn was like Scott Walker but he isnt and is the opposite and just another crooked Illinois democrate who is bankrupting the state like Obama did as a bad senator. Dems were to lazy to look at Obamas history and background or it would have been easy to see he surrounded himself with known raceists, crooks, and theives.

[bidensaidwhat]

06:41 PM on 10/04/2011

Quinnocchio is horrific ,,,,,

[MWA1111]

07:17 PM on 10/04/2011

Agreed. Heck, he didn't even have a majority approval when he was elected.