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New Polls Are Bad News for Obama, and Worse for Congress
Several new national polls find that President Obama’s job rating is slumping, that fewer than half of Americans approve of the way he is handling the economy and that broad majorities feel the country is on the wrong track, underscoring the challenges he faces as he begins a campaign-style tour addressing the economy.
Slow but steady economic growth has not helped Mr. Obama. His approval rating in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll is 45 percent, its lowest level since late 2011. On the economy, 45 percent approve of his work, while 51 percent disapprove.
In an ABC News/Washington Post poll out this week, 49 percent of Americans say they approve of the way the president is handling his job, the first time since September that his rating has fallen below 50 percent in an ABC/Post poll. That poll, too, put his approval rating on the economy at just 45 percent.
In both polls, about 6 in 10 respondents say the country is on the wrong track. Still, many more said the same thing in the fall of 2011.
Ratings of Congress remain far worse, with more than 8 in 10 in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll and more than 7 in 10 in the ABC/Post poll disapproving. Moreover, while 72 percent of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic say Democratic leaders are taking the party in the right direction, 52 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say the G.O.P. leadership is taking their party in the wrong direction, the ABC/Post poll found.
A Pew Research Center poll finds 46 percent of Americans approving of the job Mr. Obama is doing, compared with 49 percent in June and 51 percent in May. It also finds that ratings of the economy have slipped in the last month, and more than 4 in 10 say it will be a long time before the economy recovers.
A McClatchy/Marist poll finds the president’s overall job approval rating at just 41 percent among registered voters, the lowest in almost two years. Just 37 percent approve of his handling of the economy, while 56 percent disapprove.
The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll was conducted July 17 through 21 among 1,000 adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. The ABC/Washington Post poll was conducted July 18 through 21 among 1,002 adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points. The Pew poll was conducted July 17 through 21 among 1,480 adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points. The McClatchy/Marist poll was conducted July 15 through 18 among 980 registered voters and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
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