Gallup: Obama’s Approval at All-Time Low

by Stephan Tawney on July 25, 2011

President Barack Obama’s job approval rating has struck an all-time low for his presidency, a new poll from Gallup finds. In fact, Obama is doing worse today than President Clinton was doing during his 1995 budget dispute.

PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama averaged a 43% job approval rating for the week of July 18-24, tied for the lowest weekly average of his administration. Obama’s rating at this point is lower than President Bill Clinton’s ratings were in the fall of 1995 when he was embroiled in a budget dispute similar to the one Obama faces now.

Clinton’s approval rating ranged between 47% and 53% during that dispute. His rating spent moved of its time above water during the negotiations, however. Obama’s is underwater and has remained so for some time.



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