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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Devastating drop in job approval numbers for Obama in new Gallup survey

Still not low enough

President Obama's push for health care reform during the third quarter of 2009 has seriously damaged his public standing, according to new data from the Gallup Daily tracking poll. His job approval rating dropped nine points from the second to the third quarter, from 62 percent to 53 percent.

The nine-point second-to-third quarter drop is the highest Gallup has ever measured for an incumbent president during his first year in office, and among the highest quarter-to-quarter drops measured for any president at any point.



The Gallup poll itself is here. Note that the people polled were adults, not likely voters.

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