President at 53% Approval: Obama Gets Highest Job Approval Rating in 3 Years in New Poll
American voters approve of President Barack Obama’s job performance by 53-40 percent, his best approval rating in three years. By an even wider margin, 53 – 36 percent, “(T)hey trust the president and Democrats more than Republicans to avoid the “Fiscal Cliff,” according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
The Quinnipiac University National Poll was conducted between November 28 – December 3 and used live interviewers to call both landlines and cells.
Obama got his job approval support from 90% of Democrats and 51% of Independents, with Republicans only giving him 8% approval. Obama also has more approval than disapproval from all income groups, including those making over $250k a year.
In June of 2009, Obama had his high of a 59% approval rating with 31% disapproval and in October of 2011, he faced his low with 41% approval rating to a 55% disapproval.
Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, explained, “Nothing like winning an election to boost your job approval. President Barack Obama hasn’t had a score this good since his 52 – 40 percent approval rating May 5, 2011, right after the death of Osama bin Laden… This is only the second time in more than three years that President Obama has broken 50 percent. And voters see Republicans as more likely to be obstructionist, and have less confidence in their ability to come up with the right solution to the nation’s financial woes.”
The poll also shows Americans want to tax the rich (65-31%) and don’t want Medicare touched in the “fiscal cliff”, with 70-25% saying they don’t want cuts to Medicare spending.
In other words, Americans reject the Republican approach to balancing budgets. Not to suggest they reject a balanced approach, as 66% of Americans agree that we need to both generate more revenue via tax increases and cut spending. The issue then is cut spending on what. Exactly.
Even Republicans agree that signing a no-tax pledge as Republicans have done is a bad idea, with 85-10 % of Americans saying it’s a bad idea, including 77-15 % of Republicans agreeing.
The President has political capital to burn going into the fiscal cliff negotiations and there’s nothing Republicans can do about it. They lost the tax revenue issue when Obama made it a central part of his campaign. It also isn’t helping Republicans that their promises of trickle down glory from gifting the rich with less and less tax burdens never actually materialized.
The elected Tea Party Republicans bought their own angry tax rhetoric and are unwilling to give the public, including their own base of the Republican Party, what they want. Crazy much or do they only hear the most extreme voices, backed by the high dollars of the Koch brothers et al? The time has come to question whether or not the elected Republicans actually represent their own base at all, even in pretense.
Speaking of which, tea partyish-conservative media outlets are even waging war against Speaker John Boeher in hopes of getting everything done their way once again.
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RMuse
Dec. 6th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Americans understand President Obama is looking out for the country, and the people, unlike Republicans who are looking more suspect every day. Still, they show no signs of letting up and their hard-line position on protecting the rich at everyone else’s expense is going to play an important role in their demise.
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patsy soto
Dec. 6th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
With every breath they take, republicans are going deeper and deeper into political freefall… they foolishly refuse to let go of tax cuts for the wealthly, die hards still want to include Obamacare in the fiscal cliff talks..( after 33 tries to either cut or get rid of it altogether, you would think they would know better, right?) and put deep cuts in social security, medicaide and medicare. People are not asleep, and they are listening to every word. Even republican consituents don’t want cuts in those programs, and the Tea party is spitting into the wind. If the republicans don’t want to get an even nastier surprise in 2014, they better get their heads out of their arses and hear what they are being told.
President Obama’s numbers will continue to climb, and the republican party is helping that along very nicely. Keep going, Grand Old Poopers! The President will gladly take all you can give!
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Maranon
Dec. 6th, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Mr Obama is being supported, but he must also push thru and become a stronger leader, and since leading from inside has not work so well, he may consider leading from the outside and use the community and put additional pressure to the the bump on the road to progress, the obstructionist GOP house.
Pray to Saint Teddy the trust buster to helps in our time of need against the corporation
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Kevin Shinn
Dec. 6th, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Don’t forget in your prayers St.Ike, the author of the Mother Of All Stimulus Plans (the Interstate Highway and National Defense System).
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Maranon
Dec. 7th, 2012 at 10:59 am
Yes, we need a new pantheon of secular saints to help this time of need…ha
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" Mark... the educator "
Dec. 6th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
Yeah the american people want to balance the budget, just not on the backs of their S.S. and medicare, don’t tell the GOP that though, because that would make to much sense, therefore being a bad idea. The 2010′ midterms I believe were a blessing in disguise,overplaying their hand that was dealt, lead to the ryan budget plan in which uncovered the real truth about their so called spending cuts. Say no more to the Republican party, they are so damn stupid that they will continue to push their extreme agenda, and with todays social media time and age, the word spreads SO MUCH FASTER.I’m not sure that they will ever recover from the last two years of mind boggling radicalism stemming from within their party. The Democrats will take a few more seats in 14′ midterms , while Hillary runs the show from 16′ – 24′ . At that point who knows what kind of ideology will be running rampant in the right wing.
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miguelsilver
Dec. 6th, 2012 at 11:28 pm
President Obama will go down in history as one of the kindest, caring and most intelligent presidents in US history. I hope Hillary is up to running for president in 2016 and continuing the programs put in place by President Obama.
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bluerose
Dec. 7th, 2012 at 10:22 am
this gonna hurt McConnell, Boner…lol and Trump.
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