"Obama’s Approval Rating, Popularity Spike After Election" [View all]
Obamas Approval Rating, Popularity Spike After Election (http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/obama-approval-favorability-bounce.php):
... a number of post-election polls suggest his victory did wonders for his public standing.
A USA Today/Gallup survey released on Friday showed Obama and his party drawing goodwill from much of the country in the wake of their triumph at the ballot box last week. Fifty-eight percent of Americans have a favorable view of the president up 3 points from the USA Today/Gallup poll conducted right before the election. Its also his highest favorability rating in the poll since July of 2009.
The publics view of Democrats is also positive in the wake of a largely successful election for the party. Fifty-one percent of those surveyed have a favorable impression of the party, a 6-point bump since August and a more impressive showing than the 43 percent who have a favorable view of the Republican Party. Fifty percent have an unfavorable opinion of the GOP, although Gallup notes that Americans have been negative on balance toward the Republican Party since late 2005.
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Rasmussen showed Obamas approval rating reaching 54 percent on Monday his highest mark in the right-leaning tracking poll since July 2009. It ticked up another point the next day. Meanwhile, Gallups tracking poll on Wednesday showed only 40 percent of Americans disapproving of Obamas job as president, the lowest level since early 2010. Obamas job approval has topped 50 percent in every Rasmussen and Gallup poll conducted entirely after last weeks election.
When even right-wing shillsters Gallup and Rasmussen have to concede progressive momentum, you know that things are headed in the right direction.