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Obama approval index falls to -15

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  November 24th, 2009 at 09:51 AM  | 

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Rasmussen reports Obama’s Presidential Approval Index fell to -15. Another record low.

Rasmussen’s Obama Approval Index has now been in negative double digits for nine straight days. Last week the index stood at the previous record low, -14, for three consecutive days.

According to Rasmussen, support for the Democrats’ Obamacare has fallen to a new low of 38%. Sixty percent of voters believe passage of the bill will lead to higher health care costs.

It’s not just Rasmussen, Gallup, Quinnipiac, and Hawkeye all find Obama’s approval to be 48%.

As we have said before, the more voters find out about President Obama, the less they care for him and his radically liberal policies.

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  • Sundayjack

    Did all of these pollsters adjust their D/R/I splits after the November elections?

    • JoeG

      N/T

      • JoeG

        I might add that the Republican registrations are flat and the Dems are in decline.

        So long as the Republican party won’t stand on principle, I don’t believe they’ll pick up registered voters. I don’t believe that’s electoral disaster though.

    • mschmitt
    • eburke

      (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, et al) of course, didn’t. The latest set of polls coming out of this ‘unbiased’ group had sampling edges of Ds over Rs by anywhere from 12 – 15 %. And if you look at the ABC polls over the last few months, they’re actually showing ‘adults’ leaving the REPUBLICANS and declaring themselves Independents while showing the Dems as staying steady (’cause we all know that the exit polling in VA showed Indies breaking for Dems over Pubs 2 -1; oh…wait a second)

      Add that to the fact that these shameless shills poll ADULTS as opposed to RVs and LVs (i.e., if you’re breathing and have no interest in anything except to follow the Kate & John saga and your favorite TV station is VH1) and you get the reason why whereas respected pollsters have Bambi in the low single to negative approval ratings, these clowns are showing His Excellency at double digit approval ratings w/CBS at a +17.

      But I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

  • Castor

    Let?s hope by October 2010 that it?s minus 30 !

  • bk

    Going back to early, the SA number has always been around 30 +/- a few points. The SD # was usually in the high 30s. Today’s numbers seem like only a slight shift, but there’s more to it.

    It seems like there will be 25% who love everything he does and 25% who hate everything he does. But if you look at the 50% of the people in the middle who are included in the total approve and total disapprove numbers, you can see a major shift.

    Back in early July the overall was 53-46 approve; now it’s 45-54 against. So it’s not just that some people who didn’t like him have hardened their views or that some who loved him have softened theirs. There has been an across the board shift to the right – 8% movement from approved somewhat to disapproved somewhat. And given that’s among the 50% who are not locked at either end, it really means 16% of that middle half of the people have switched from approval to disapproval (that’s about 1 of every 6). This has got to be pretty alarming to Democrats – it certainly reflects how independents voted earlier this month.

    • bk
    • CincoSolas_del_Bronx

      Broken by party, both Rs and Ds seem to be floating around the typical 80/20 party-line overall D/A ratio which doesn’t tend to move much, barring a huge news event. That’s the bulk of your immovable 25% of the total.

      But if I were a D now–as I long was–I would be weeping and wailing for more than the trees* upon hearing of the -35 SD/SA split AMONG INDEPEDENTS! I only get the daily RR summaries, so haven’t seen the tracking of that–if you, bk, or anyone else has that split from early summer I’d love to see it!

      *Hey I thought the trees LIKED CO2. They should be leaping for joy!

    • GCBWI

      more than the “approval index”.

      Using the Rassmussen numbers, the first time that the overall disapprove percentage was higher than the overall approve number was in late July; which was also the first time that the overall disapprove percentage topped 50.

      Since then, the overall approve total has at times been higher than the overall disapprove total, but mostly the disapprove total has been higher. If you calculated an approval index using the overall percentages, President Obama’s index would be at -9 today, which is the lowest it has been yet.

      • vamoose

        I’m wondering if the Saturday Night Live jabs at Obama are taking a toll and peeling off liberal support for the prez. The -15 number comes 2 days after the “screwing China” SNL opening. Tomorrow’s number is much anticipated.

  • http://www.letfreedomringblog.com ggross56

    I titled my post on this polling & its electoral results “That Sinking Feeling.” If the Democrats don’t change course, they’re in for real trouble in 2010.

    BTW, it’s interesting to note that independents are still breaking against Democrats at the same rate as during the Virginia & NJ elections.

  • LibRick

    Speaking for many liberals who are somewhat disappointed in Obama’s governance, he’s losing ground on our side more because of his vacillating decision making. He has not really stood on any policy beyond his desire to be a world celebrity.

    Full disclosure — I didn’t vote for him. I gave my allegiance to McCain decades ago for things he did for me. ,

    • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

      Your disclosure doesn’t make your ridiculous apology for him welcome.

      • bk

        Hardcore liberals think Obama may be more interested in promoting Obama the Legend as opposed to pushing an even more liberal agenda than what he has pursued. But it’s like during the campaign – Obama didn’t have any concrete plans other than a plan to get elected.

        • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

          Not that we’re in the business of being fair to a lying fascist weasel like Barack Obama, but what he says is not fair nor is it on point.

        • IJB

          There is precious little evidence that Lefties are abandoning Obama. At least, not yet.

          It’s true, that there is now an ‘enthusiasm gap’ on the Left (as there was going into 1994), but that’s almost to be expected after a big win.

          But the fact Obama’s Approval Ratings haven’t plunged into the low 40′s or even the 30′s yet is proof positive that the Left, and Dem-leaning Independents, haven’t abandoned Obama at this point.

          When that will happen, I think, is if Dan Perrin is right, and the Dems fail to enact *any* Health Care bill, *or* if they completely dump Public Option/Single Payer out of it and embrace Stupak, just to pass it. At that point, I think the Left might wash their hands of The Won(tm), and his numbers will plummet into the 30s.

          Of course, if Obama announces a (near total) pullout from Afghanistan, as I fully expect him to do next month, then even failing to pass Single Payer may not peel off the Left from supporting El Zero, and his Approval numbers will stay in the 40s…

        • janis

          Most of the wailing on the Left has been due to the perception that Obama is stiffing them on most of what he promised them he’d do. They are learning that they were as used and abused by him and his promises as the “centrist” Dems who voted for him based on his deceptive campaigning.

          Nobody is as important to Obama as Obama himself. All of us as well as this country’s well-being are just props in the epic “Life Of Obama” story that he thinks he’s starring in. His ultimate goal is to be President of the World, in whatever form he can manage that. What a wonderfully overblown goal for a man who can’t even manage to lead his own party with majorities in both branches of Congress.

          The man is an embarrassment to this country.

      • LibRick

        I was just trying to provide a liberal perspective. If I worded it to construe differently then… for that I apologize to you Neil and would hope that you might continue to extend my welcome to post on this site.

        • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
          • LibRick

            and I thank you for the clarification.

          • bk

            some of it has to be liberals thinking he’s no good. Whether they think he’s too far left or too far center or whatever, there are people across the spectrum who are cooling to the Hopey Changey President

          • LibRick

            for saying in a sentence what I was trying to articulate.

  • johnt

    Nothing there, nothing. He can’t even schedule another quick trip to Asia to postpone doing something about Afghanistan. That tour of the Mighty One ended in massive deflation, O being treated like a house servant.

  • antisocial

    Allow me to say that again. WATERLOO.