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Gallup- Obama’s Job Approval Easily Outpaces U.S. Satisfaction

Posted by Paddy

· Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 at 7:30 am

gallup20136

I’m guessing the most important part of all this is that there may still be hope for PBO’s agenda and the D’s in 2016. That’s quite a gap.

PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama’s job approval rating thus far in 2013 has averaged 24 percentage points higher than Americans’ satisfaction with the direction in which the country is going. This gap is typical for the Obama presidency, but represents a much greater presidential job approval premium than most other presidents since Ronald Reagan have enjoyed.

More specifically, so far this year, an average of 50% of Americans have approved of the job Obama is doing as president. At the same time, an average of 26% have been satisfied with the direction of the country. Similarly, since the start of his presidency in 2009, Obama’s average job approval rating has been running 26 points higher than Americans’ average level of satisfaction with the nation, and has ranged from 22 to 30 points higher each year.

By contrast, the average gap in approval vs. satisfaction for George W. Bush across the eight years of his presidency was 12 points. For Bill Clinton and for Ronald Reagan, it was 10 points. The only other president who consistently logged much higher job approval ratings than the prevailing level of U.S. satisfaction was George H.W. Bush during his one-term presidency from 1989-1993. However, even his average 21-point job approval premium falls short of Obama’s.

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Quickie- Poll: Congress Hits Rock Bottom

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· Thursday, June 13th, 2013 at 8:45 am

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downhand

Wow, I didn’t think people were paying attention, but this makes it look like they are… alot.

Washington (CNN) – Americans’ confidence in Congress as an institution has hit an all-time low, according to a new national poll.

Asked about a list of institutions in American society, only 10% of those questioned in a Gallup survey released Thursday say they have confidence in Congress. That’s down three percentage points from last year, and according to their release, “this is the lowest level of confidence Gallup has found, not only for Congress, but for any institution on record.”

Congress ranks last on a list of 16 institutions. At the top of the list: The U.S. military. Seventy-six percent say they have confidence in the armed forces. The presidency ranked fifth, at 36%.

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Quickie- Gallup: U.S. Job Creation Best in Five Years

Posted by Paddy

· Wednesday, June 5th, 2013 at 7:30 am

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happy-dance

Funny, I heard all sorts of blather about how PBO is sinking among independents today, but nada about this.

The Job Creation Index is now much improved from the all-time monthly low of -5 recorded in February and April 2009.

The net job creation score is based on 37% of workers telling Gallup that their employer is hiring new people and expanding the size of its workforce, and 15% saying their company is letting people go and reducing the size of its workforce. The percentage “hiring” is the highest since August 2008 and the percentage “letting people go” is the lowest since March 2008.

Workers across many regions and in various groups are giving Gallup some of the best job creation reports in five years:

Job creation in the East (20) and West (21) improved to the best levels seen since mid-2008.

Net job creation also improved in the South (21) in May, but is not quite as high as it was in April 2012 (23), although it is still among the highest levels for the region on record.

While job creation in the Midwest did not improve in May, it is the highest (22) for any region, as has been the case throughout this year and during much of 2012.

Nongovernment employees continue to report job creation at their workplaces that is among the highest since Gallup began tracking job creation daily in 2008.

Federal government workers’ job creation reports continued to improve in May, following a collapse in March after the federal budget sequestration cuts went into effect. But, net job creation for this group remains in negative territory at -7 in May.

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Tags : economy, gallup, good economy, good news, jobs, poll

Obama’s poll numbers hold up despite Republican B.S.

Posted by Paddy

· Thursday, May 30th, 2013 at 8:15 am

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sothere

Whereas Quinnipiac has him under water.

President Obama’s approval ratings have increased since a trio of controversies involving his administration began dominating the news cycle.

Fifty percent of those surveyed in Gallup’s three-day tracking poll released Wednesday say they approve of the job the president is doing, compared to 43 percent who said they disapprove.

The 7 percentage-point positive margin is better than where the president stood in the poll over the two weeks before the IRS and Department of Justice scandals broke, and is near Obama’s rating over the waning days of the 2012 campaign when voters convincingly elected him to a second term in office.

Obama’s Gallup numbers are up three percentage points since the pollster’s May 23-25 survey, and suggests Obama’s approval ratings held steady even as the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of Tea Party groups made headlines.

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Quickie Gallup- Americans’ Financial Worry Lowest Since Before Recession

Posted by Paddy

· Monday, May 6th, 2013 at 8:15 am

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galworry

Good news you won’t hear from Fox.

PRINCETON, NJ – Americans’ financial worry has eased to the lowest level since before the recession. Gallup classifies 53% of Americans as highly or moderately worried about their finances, down from a peak of 61% a year ago, and the lowest since 45% in 2007.

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This year, 25% of Americans are worried about six or seven of the seven items — putting them in the “highly worried” category. Another 28% worry about three to five items and are classified as “moderately worried.” The remaining 47% have few financial worries, including 23% who are worried about none of the seven items.

Americans were generally less worried about financial matters before the 2008-2009 recession than they have been since. A maximum of 51% were highly or moderately worried about their finances from 2001-2007, compared with a range of 53% to 61% since then.

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Gallup- Americans Wanted Gun Background Checks to Pass Senate

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· Monday, April 29th, 2013 at 7:15 am

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no-brainer

Toomey’s approval improved with his support of the shot down law. Guess the rest of congress is just plain stupid.

PRINCETON, NJ – Sixty-five percent of Americans say the U.S. Senate should have passed the measure that would have expanded background checks for gun purchases, while 29% agree with the Senate’s failure to pass the measure.

These data are from Gallup Daily tracking conducted April 22-25, about a week after the Senate’s April 17 vote on the background check measure, which failed when 54 senators voted “yea,” short of the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster and pass the measure.

Prior to the Senate’s failure to pass the measure, numerous polls showed that roughly nine in 10 Americans favor expanded gun background checks in concept — a fact that a number of journalists, columnists, and politicians made note of. Gallup’s Jan. 19-20 survey, for example, showed that 91% of Americans said they personally would vote for a measure requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales. Gallup asked this question again in the April 22-25 survey and found a slight decline, to 83% support. The wording of the new question was slightly modified from the January asking, which may be responsible for some of the change. But it also may be that the Senate’s failure to pass the measure deflated Americans’ support for it.

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Quickie- Gallup: Americans Trust President Obama Most on Economy

Posted by Paddy

· Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 at 6:30 am

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galtrust

With the budget he’s proposing. I’m not sure this is a good thing.

by Dennis Jacobe, Chief Economist PRINCETON, NJ – As the president issues his proposed new federal budget, Americans are more likely to say they have “a great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence that he (57%) will recommend the right things for the U.S. economy than they do in Democratic (48%) or Republican (39%) leaders in Congress or in Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (42%).

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Americans’ confidence in President Obama’s ability to recommend the right thing for the U.S. economy is up from 50% the past two years, but it remains below his high of 71% in 2009.

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