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by Obama Pundit
There has been a clear drop in Obama’s approval ratings, but the mainstream media still continues to insist they are ‘really high’, as exemplified by this bit in Time:
Obama has so far been able to maintain high approval ratings. Even though he’s showing some weakening in his approval rating, they overall remain very high.
According to the latest Gallup Poll, Obama is at 61 percent approval, up from 58 percent a few days ago. Rasmussen, which has consistently been the most accurate election poll, has him at 56 percent.
The point is that while these aren’t particularly low polls, they aren’t particularly high, either. If you look at the history of Presidential approval ratings, Obama is somewhere in the middle–not as high as Kennedy or Eisenhower and not as low as Ford or Clinton in the early going.
Obama’s ratings are not so strong that he is impregnable, despite what the press likes to tell us. To me, it sounds like a bunch of wishful thinking on their part.
