The president's poll ratings just keep sliding. Reports
Zogby International:
A new Zogby Interactive survey shows a slight decline in
President Barack Obama's job approval, with 48% of likely
voters now approving of the job he is doing as president, down
from 51% who said the same in an interactive/telephone hybrid
poll conducted in mid-June. Forty-nine percent now say they
disapprove of the job the president has done so far in office
and 4% are not sure.
The survey found similar results when likely voters were asked
specifically to rate President Obama's performance-47% give him
a positive rating, with 22% rating his job performance as
"excellent" and 25% rating it as "good." But slightly more than
half (53%) give the president a negative job performance
rating, with 10% who say he is doing a "fair" job as president
and 43% who say he is doing a "poor" job-up from 36% who said
he was doing a poor job in mid-June.
Enthusiasm for President Obama's "subsidize everything, regulate
everything" agenda is falling. Now is the time to pile
on. The American people deserve real change, not the
retreat to the collectivist past being sold by the
administration.
About the Author
Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Senior Fellow in International Religious Persecution at the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics (Crossway).
