red states rule
08-09-2011, 04:00 AM
Even in a ABC poll, Obama is not doing well in states he won in 2004. Still, these numbers are not good given the sagging economy and high unemployment
President Obama’s average job approval rating over the first half of 2011 was above 50 percent in 16 states, four more than last year, a new Gallup survey (http://www.gallup.com/poll/148874/Obama-Job-Approval-Higher-States.aspx) found.
The president’s approval numbers ticked up above the 50-percent threshold in 2012 battlegrounds Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and remained strong in Democratic strongholds like Connecticut, Maryland and Delaware, where it hovered near 60 percent.
But voters in a number of swing states won by Obama in 2008 were less approving, signaling what is expected to be a tough road to re-election ahead.
The president's rating sagged below the symbolic 50-percent mark in Indiana (42 percent); Oregon, Colorado and Nevada (44 percent); Ohio (45 percent); and Virginia and North Carolina (46 percent).
Obama’s highest approval rating was in the District of Columbia at 83 percent. Idaho voters gave the president his lowest rating, with just 27 percent approving of his job.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/08/obama-job-approval-varies-in-state-by-state-gallup-poll-.html
President Obama’s average job approval rating over the first half of 2011 was above 50 percent in 16 states, four more than last year, a new Gallup survey (http://www.gallup.com/poll/148874/Obama-Job-Approval-Higher-States.aspx) found.
The president’s approval numbers ticked up above the 50-percent threshold in 2012 battlegrounds Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and remained strong in Democratic strongholds like Connecticut, Maryland and Delaware, where it hovered near 60 percent.
But voters in a number of swing states won by Obama in 2008 were less approving, signaling what is expected to be a tough road to re-election ahead.
The president's rating sagged below the symbolic 50-percent mark in Indiana (42 percent); Oregon, Colorado and Nevada (44 percent); Ohio (45 percent); and Virginia and North Carolina (46 percent).
Obama’s highest approval rating was in the District of Columbia at 83 percent. Idaho voters gave the president his lowest rating, with just 27 percent approving of his job.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/08/obama-job-approval-varies-in-state-by-state-gallup-poll-.html