December 11, 2015 11:59 AM
President Obama
The public’s grade of President Obama’s job approval (as found by Gallup 12/1) is 46% approval/50% disapproval. His approval rating did hit 50% in early February of this year. Obama’s approval rating at the time of his first inauguration was 68% approval/12% disapproval. [Gallup]Here are other approval scores going back 2+ years.
| Date | NBC/WSJ | WP/ABC | CNN/ORC | NYT/CBS | FOX |
| November 2015 | xxx | 46/50% | xxx | 42/47% (CBS) | 40/54% |
| October 2015 | 45/49% | 51/45% | 46/51% | 45/46% (CBS) | 42/53% |
| September 2015 | 47/47% | 47/49% | 44/50% | xxx | 44/50% |
| August 2015 | xxx | xxx | 47/51% | xxx | 42/51% |
| July 2015 | 45/50% | 45/52% | 48/48% | xxx | 47/48% |
| June 2015 | 48/48% | xxx | 50/48% | xxx | 44/50% |
| May 2015 | xxx | 43/53% | 45/52% | 43/53% | 44/51% |
| April 2015 | 48/47% | xxx | 48/47% | 45/44% | 42/53% |
| Mar. 2015 | 46/50% | 46/49% | 46/51% | 45/46% (CBS) | 45/50% |
| Jan. 2015 | 46/48% | 47/48% | xxx | xxx | 45/51% |
| Jan. 2014 | 43/51% | 45/52% | 45/51% | 46/47% (CBS) | 42/53% |
| Jan. 2013 | 52/44% | 55/41% | 55/43% | 51/41% |
| Approve | Disapprove - End of 3rd year of second term | |
| Eisenhower | 56 | 18 (12/8/59) |
| Clinton | 56 | 41 (12/9/99) |
| Reagan | 49 | 41 (12/7/87) |
| Obama | 46 | 50 (12/1/15) |
| GW Bush | 32 | 65 (12/14/07) |
Americans disapprove of how Obama is handling the economy by 49% to 44% (CBS 11/22). A year ago, 53% disapproved of how he was handling the economy (CNN/ORC 11/23).
Americans also disapprove of the way he is handling foreign policy by 51% to 37% (CBS 11/22). A year ago, foreign policy disapproval was at 54% (CNN/ORC 11/23).
Americans are split down the middle as to how they” feel” about Barack Obama. 48% are feeling favorably toward Obama, of which 19% feel very favorable. 49% of Americans feel unfavorably toward Obama, of which 29% feel very unfavorable. [Bloomberg Politics Poll 11/17/15)
