Obama Approval Falls To New Quarterly Low

President Obama's approval rating sunk to a new low for the 11th quarter of his presidency, according to Gallup's daily polling of public opinion over the course of his presidency.

According to the new Gallup release, Obama's approval rating over the course of the 11th quarter was 41 percent. Obama's approval rating in the 10th quarter of his presidency was 46.8 percent, according to Gallup.

Huffpost Pollster's trend estimate of Obama's approval, which is based on all public polls including Gallup's daily tracking poll, has also shown a drop in Obama's approval since the middle of 2011, and now estimates that Obama's approval rating is 42.5 percent.

The nearly-6 percent drop is the largest in Gallup's measurement of Obama's approval rating since he dropped from 62 percent in the 2nd quarter of his presidency to 52.9 percent in the 3rd quarter. Although Obama's approval rating has dropped from a high of 63 percent in the first quarter of Gallup's polling, his approval rating had mostly stabilized prior to the latest drop, varying only from 46 percent in quarter 8 to 46.8 percent in quarter 10.

In Gallup surveys on presidential approval since the Eisenhower administration, only Jimmy Carter had a lower 11th quarter approval rating than Obama. Carter's approval rating was almost 10 percentage points lower than Obama's, at 31.4 percent. Two other presidents had 11th quarter approval ratings below 50 percent in Gallup's polling -- Ronald Reagan at 44.4 percent and Bill Clinton at 46.4 percent.

(Gallup began conducting their daily tracking survey in October 2008, so data on previous presidencies come from combined results of Gallup's individual surveys during that period).

Gallup's 11th quarter data for Obama was gathered between July 20 and Oct. 19 and includes interviews with 45,989 adults, for a margin of error of 1 percentage point.

Comments

[rparis8241]

09:56 PM on 11/15/2011

Looser of a president

[gep55]

09:50 AM on 11/08/2011

I'm stunned its still this high. If the liberals at the Huffington Post and media actually spelled out what was in the stimulus, where all the money went, what his czars are really doing, and the fantasy that is his jobs bill, he'd be a lot lower.

Where's all the giant headlines about Corzine nearly bankrupting NJ and $630 million in customer money missing from his company? Time to start proving your objectivity folks. You lost it a long time ago.

[gojo]

10:26 PM on 11/02/2011

I never felt ashamed to be an American until Obama's first year in office.

[bldr1bob]

07:38 PM on 10/29/2011

And at least Carter's was lower than his..................thank God!

[bldr1bob]

07:37 PM on 10/29/2011

He's achieved his lowest ratings! Bow that's news.............

[election2012]

12:27 AM on 10/29/2011

Recent polls are not the final word. Actually, Gallup now has him at 43%.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/150374/Obama-Job-Approval-Showing-Modest-Improvement.aspx

Meanwhile, Congress hits an all-time historical low approval rating of 9%. In fact, polls reflect that Americans disapprove of all government in general.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20125482-503544/congressional-approval-at-all-time-low-of-9-according-to-new-cbs-news-new-york-times-poll/

[Michael73501]

04:18 PM on 10/28/2011

Meanwhile, Obama rakes it IN from the LOBBYISTS - as reported in the NYT.
Catch that story here:

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/28/nyt-yes-obamas-getting-big-bucks-from-lobbyists/

[Barbara DeZan]

01:20 AM on 10/29/2011

They are all taking it in. You can keep track of who is getting what from whom here:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/summary.php

ALL info can be found on this website.

[Glen29]

04:58 PM on 10/27/2011

Considering roughly 20 percent of the population will vote Dem all the time, his real approval is about 21% for people who are not blind sheep. Done and done.

[election2012]

04:19 PM on 10/30/2011

Where are you getting your figures. According to independent research, "36% identify themselves as Democrats, and just 27% as Republicans. Of the 37% who claim no party identification, 15% lean Democratic, 10% lean Republican, and 12% have no leaning either way."

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/773/fewer-voters-identify-as-republicans

[JAMES GORMAN]

10:02 AM on 10/27/2011

dear God--I am one of the old,as in 74, abandoned Liberals who is certainly not in the
42% approval ranks for Obama: the President has abandoned the left, and has sold out
on almost every really moral issue upon which his stirring victory was based.
What sickens me particularly is the issue of torture: the new "revelations" from Condee
in her version of Bush-hood reveal her opposition to torturing people as Cheney directed--
but of course she never recoiled from up-holding every step of Bush's policies including
President Dick's work to extract information by torture in the fashion of most tyrants.
Sadly we have not seen any kind of revulsion from Obama, much less any kind of
practical safegauard, that we shall not revert to a torture policy again. Meanwhile we just
roam the globe with him to find people like Oadafi or Osama whom we may kill at will.
Nice----James McCormick

[RockyMissouri]

01:01 PM on 10/28/2011

I don't believe you are a liberal.....now, or ever.

[Eugenio Corbeau]

08:44 AM on 10/27/2011

Obama's foreign policy is antisemitic. He had his State Department condemn Israeli expansion of Gilo in so-called "East" Jerusalem. Israel is our ally, there should be NO condemnation of Israeli settlement expansion when the settlement in the so-called "West Bank" or neighborhood in so-called "East" Jerusalem are contiguous with the 1949 ceasefire line known as the Green Line.

[RockyMissouri]

01:00 PM on 10/28/2011

All the settlements are wrong.

[Eugenio Corbeau]

01:16 PM on 10/28/2011

You're antisemitic

[Barbara DeZan]

01:22 AM on 10/29/2011

Baloney.

The President is a realist. Israel and Palestine must come to an agreement..and until they do, he's hands off.

Enough is enough.

[Eugenio Corbeau]

05:12 PM on 10/29/2011

First, there has NEVER been a country called "Palestine."

Second, the VAST MAJORITY of Americans support the State of Israel.

Third, there have been dozens of peace offers by the Israelis to the so-called "Palestinians" offering them the MAJORITY of what they want. There has NOT been a single so-called "Palestinian" or Arab peace offer that does or did NOT involve the destruction of the State of Israel.

Fourth, even the so-called "Palestinian" president Abbas recently admitted that the Arabs should have accepted the United Nations 1947 partition plan of the British Mandate (invented) of Palestine.

[georgiaboy31107]

10:34 AM on 10/24/2011

Why do most Americans have such an amazing short memory? Obama was expected to walk into the President's position & immediantly fix the 8 year disaster that was called the Bush years. I remember that even in his first quarter, people was calling for blood because everything wasn't immediantly perfect. In my experience, it takes two to three times as long to rebuild as it takes to tear down. Plus, we had the GOP party fighting tooth & nail to keep anything positive from being completed. Plus he had the stupid "Birthers" trying to keep unrest going. It's was like he never got the credit for the good things he completed, but always received the blame for things that he had nothing to do with (see Bush years).

[Athelstane]

10:59 AM on 10/24/2011

First, he promised to fix everything immediately ("This is the moment the seas began to recede...etc"). Second, he had control of both houses of Congress, including a filibuster proof majority in the Senate for the first two years, so he should have been able to pass whatever he wanted. Third, most people believe he not only didn't fix things, he made them worse. Lastly, most people believe he misread dissatisfaction with the last part of the Bush years as a mandate to turn this country significantly to the Left. People are not as naive as you suggest.

[marielct5]

06:02 PM on 10/25/2011

The Bush thing is getting so old!!!! Obama just sat on his a-s for three years and watch our country go lower and lower each year. Now that 2012 is coming he comes out and says he will work hard to help all Americans. Obama said when he became President he would work to put Americans back to work. The only thing he did was to spend the American peoples money and we still don't have jobs.Obama and the Democrates were in control at one time and did nothing . Obama has lost it and he will be out in 2012. Stop crying and put the blame where it really goes...... In case you don't know Bush is no longer our President. Blame Obama for doing nothing to get us out of this mess.

[Barbara DeZan]

01:28 AM on 10/29/2011

If you google "what has president obama done"....you will find that he completed 85% of his term agenda in 2 years.

You'll find what he's done.

But you go ahead and get your infor from Fox. There's areason you people are called low-information.

[The Black Raven]

07:34 PM on 10/23/2011

It will be 24% by the election. If that much.

[sophie M]

07:20 PM on 10/23/2011

i am not a fan of Obama anymore.
like many who fell for hope and change ....bs. (i worked for him, voted for him)
i will vote for him again, before any repub.

[The Black Raven]

07:35 PM on 10/23/2011

Wow, Then you are a genius.

[Jett7]

07:11 PM on 10/23/2011

I don't care how low Obama's approval rating falls. This country will fall if a republican gets into the White House.

[The Black Raven]

07:36 PM on 10/23/2011

You do not call this falling? How far do you want to go?

[RockyMissouri]

07:01 PM on 10/23/2011

I'll take my chances WITH a Democrat IN the White House, rather than someone else.......

[just sayin]

12:54 PM on 10/25/2011

How's that been working for you?