Poll: Improved Economic Outlook Boosts Approval For Obama
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As many in the United States hold their noses in the search for the next president, they're increasingly warming to the president they already have.
Buoyed by some good economic news and a surge of goodwill from his base of supporters, President Barack Obama is seeing his approval rating rise. That puts Obama, who leaves office in January, in a position to remain a force in the political debate at a point in his final term when some others faded into the background.
For the first time since 2013, half of those questioned approve of the job Obama is doing in office, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. The survey found the apparent uptick in approval extended across issues, including foreign affairs, immigration and, most notably the economy, where people said they felt slightly better about their own prospects and Obama's stewardship.
Asked about their opinion of Obama more generally, those surveyed were more likely to give him a positive rating than any of the candidates for president, Republican or Democrat.
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secondwind
(16,903 posts)PragmaticLiberal
(904 posts)You wouldn't know it from reading DU at times but by and large people seem to actually think President Obama has done a good job.
I guess they have stockholm syndrome.
ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)...they're hate-filled Socialists and Greens, angry that we Democrats are a big-tent party.
- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community
mpcamb
(2,872 posts)boost his approval rating.
He's looking good compared to the upcoming alternatives.
PragmaticLiberal
(904 posts)SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)No President will ever be perfect...But considering what this country looked like 7yrs ago & how it has changed in so many ways for the better thanks to President Obama despite having to deal with what he has had to deal with I would say he has done a wonderful job!
😀
Stuart G
(38,439 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)this economy needs to be put out of its misery
Hydra
(14,459 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)I would have an Obama portrait in every one of my 60 rooms and a bust in my living room.