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Obama freefall, Support for Healthacare Slips, GOP winning battles

July 31st, 2009 | Comments Off

Obama freefall, Support for Healthacare Slips, GOP winning battles

Obama Drops Faster than Bush or Carter Pew: Obama at 54% Not the End of It Of course, support for health plan slipping…for now Obama Drops Faster than Bush or Carter Posted: 30 Jul 2009 11:39 AM PDT Barack Obama‘s public approval rating has fallen faster than presidents from George W. Bush to Jimmy Carter, based on a RealClearPolitics review of historical Gallup polling. Until Obama, Carter was the last president to begin his term in the … Read entire article »

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Daily Presidential Tracking Poll – July 30, 2009

July 31st, 2009 | Comments Off

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 28% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11 (see trends). Yesterday, the President hosted Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., for a beer on the White House lawn. Thirty percent (30%) of voters nationwide give the President good or excellent marks for his handling of the situation. A Rasmussen video report notes that 62% of Americans believe race relations in the nation are improving. This is one aspect of race relations where white and black voters generally agree. Consumer and investor confidence have both improved dramatically over the past week. … Read entire article »

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forty-one percent (41%) of U.S. voters now rate President Obama’s job performance unsatisfactory

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forty-one percent (41%) of U.S. voters now rate President Obama’s job performance unsatisfactory

Forty-one percent (41%) of U.S. voters now rate President Obama’s job performance in the area of national security as good or excellent, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. This is the president’s lowest finding on national security since taking office in January. With the exception of a bounce last week, his numbers on national security have been trending down steadily since mid-June. Thirty-five percent (35%) now say the president is doing a poor job … Read entire article »

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Rasmussen Reports™: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere

July 31st, 2009 | Comments Off

Forty-one percent 41% of U.S. voters now rate President Obama’s job performance in the area of national security as good or excellent, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.This is the president’s lowest finding on national security since taking office in January. With the exception of a bounce last week, his numbers on national security have been trending down steadily since mid-June.Thirty-five percent 35% now say the president is doing a poor job on national security.From January to mid-May, over 50% of voters regularly gave Obama good or excellent marks for his handling of national security. … Read entire article »

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Corazon Aquino, who became the first female president of the Philippines, Dies at 76

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Corazon Aquino, who became the first female president of the Philippines, Dies at 76

Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) — Corazon Aquino, who became the first female president of the Philippines by ending Ferdinand Marcos’s two-decade rule in the “People Power” uprising of 1986, has died. She was 76. Aquino, who was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2008, died of cardiac arrest this morning at a hospital in Manila, according to her son, Benigno III, a member of the Philippine Senate. Known as “Cory,” Aquino was vaulted into politics by the 1983 assassination … Read entire article »

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