Obama’s Approval Rating Is In The Tank Because Americans Are Being Lied To

Posted by | December 10, 2014 17:00 | Filed under: Contributors Opinion Politics Tommy Christopher Top Stories

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President Obama’s approval ratings have been stuck in the low-to-mid 40s for a good long while now, and while the breakneck pace at which Democrats ran away from the president during this year’s midterm campaigns didn’t help, a new poll from Bloomberg News may offer another clue to Obama’s persistent public approval woes. On several key issues, Americans have a completely false understanding of the president’s performance.

The president’s decision to take executive action on immigration is one of the hot polling topics these days, with some fascinating and complicated results in its own right. In a result that’s fairly consistent across several polls, 41% of Americans told Gallup they approve of the president’s actions, while 51% disapproved. Within that result, though, almost all of the opposition is among white Republicans and so-called independents. Gallup also cross-tabbed the results by race, ethnicity, and party, and found that Obama’s immigration actions were favored by black voters at 68%, Hispanic voters at 64%, and Democrats overall by 70%. For Hispanic voters born in the U.S., that approval fell to 51%. Gallup’s headline? “U.S. Hispanics Back Obama Immigration Actions.”

In the Bloomberg poll, 39% approved of the president’s decision, while 56% disapproved. Bloomberg didn’t provide crosstabs, but keeping in mind the Gallup result, which found almost all of the opposition concentrated among white Republicans and independents, check out this result…READ MORE 

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

129 responses to Obama’s Approval Rating Is In The Tank Because Americans Are Being Lied To

  1. rg9rts December 11th, 2014 at 04:33

    GDamn disqus is effin slow today on all the sites I’ve been on !
    O is a moderate republican and a disappointment to all

  2. rg9rts December 11th, 2014 at 05:33

    GDamn disqus is effin slow today on all the sites I’ve been on !
    O is a moderate republican and a disappointment to all

  3. crc3 December 11th, 2014 at 10:18

    Polls…schmolls…I don’t care what any of them say. Obama has done a very good job considering he has been blocked time and time again by the Teapubs. Ignorant citizens who don’t see what he has done will continue to be ignorant and hopeless. I hope he continues to use executive orders to get things accomplished and to hell with threats from the right to sue or impeach him…

  4. crc3 December 11th, 2014 at 11:18

    Polls…schmolls…I don’t care what any of them say. Obama has done a very good job considering he has been blocked time and time again by the Teapubs. Ignorant citizens who don’t see what he has done will continue to be ignorant and hopeless. I hope he continues to use executive orders to get things accomplished and to hell with threats from the right to sue or impeach him…

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