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.
July 28, 2011 at 9:22 pm
The decline in the President’s approval rating to 43%, tying its lowest point since Obama took office, is undoubtedly connected in part to the failure of the Administration to come to an agreement with congressional Republicans over an increase in the debt ceiling and spending cuts in the federal
July 27, 2011 at 8:25 am
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
July 26, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Barack Obama ran a campaign in 2008 that, at least superficially, was built on the value proposition that we should move beyond the partisan battles that characterized the previous decades of American politics and instead return to shared set of values to guide our government through compromise. We
July 25, 2011 at 4:11 pm
As negotiations continue and as the hard choices required by the impending August 2nd deadline loom, there have been increased calls for compromise to end the debt ceiling standoff. A look at the topline numbers from recent polling would suggest that compromise is exactly what voters want. According
