Friday, February 17, 2012

46% Job Approval for POTUS - Gallup


Gallup: Report on its daily tracking poll on the job performance of President Obama, today POTUS has a 46% Approval rating, while 48% of Americans Disapprove of the Obama record. The vicious Republican fight and improving image of the US economy has helped Obama improve his poll numbers in various polls, of late he has been getting over 50%, this is seen as a good sign for re-election. The decline of US unemployment from around 9% to 8.3% has given the Oval a bounce, if this pace carries and its big IF folks then Obama could get a second term, lets stress the IF folks, the Congressional Budget Office has predicted that US unemployment rate will go back up to 9% before the November election, if this happens Obama is toast, but if they are wrong and the rate goes below 8% then it can be argued that Obama is following the Reagan path to re-election, if the rate hovers in the 7% as happened in 1984 Reagan could argue that the direction was down, this will be the Obama argument. Thus if Santorum is the nominee, and the economy has a major upswing then Obama will be leaving the White House on January 20th 2017.

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