Obama’s job approval falls to 48% in a CNN poll

obamasocialismEven the heavily weighted polls in favor of Democrats can’t mask Obama’s tumbling job approval numbers. The latest to reveal this the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national survey released Friday. Only 48% of Americans approve of the job Obama’s doing as president, with 50% disapproving. The 48% approval rating is a whopping 7 point drop in approval from last month.

“The poll indicates that the biggest drop in approval comes from non college educated white voters,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “That’s one indication among many that Obama’s growing unpopularity may be more related to unemployment and the poor economy.”

In fact, six in ten Americans questioned say they favor Obama’s plan to send 30,000 more troops to that country. Two-thirds also support his plan to start removing U.S. forces from Afghanistan in the summer of 2011 – although the poll indicates most Americans think that announcing that timetable in advance was a bad idea, and they are skeptical whether conditions in Afghanistan in 2011 will actually allow the U.S. to start drawing down troop levels.

Support for Obama’s policies does not translate into support for the war itself; a majority still say they oppose U.S. action in that country.

“That may currently be a reflection on George W. Bush rather than Obama,” says Holland. “Two-thirds say they blame the former president, not Obama, for the problems the U.S. currently faces in Afghanistan.”

But the poll suggests the conflict is eventually going to become Mr. Obama’s War, with 54 percent saying they will blame Obama, not Bush, for any problems the U.S. faces in Afghanistan in 2011.

The poll was conducted Wednesday and Thursday, after the president spelled out his new Afghanistan policy in a prime time address Tuesday night at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.

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December 4, 2009 · Filed Under Political Polling


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