Zogby Report Card: NSA Scandal Unites Liberals, Conservatives Against President
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John Zogby's Obama Weekly Report Card is Featured in Paul Bedard's "Washington Secrets" Published weekly in The Washington Examiner
This week's grade: D
New polls just out show President Obama losing some of the public trust he once had. Overall public support is down a few points, once again into the high 40s -- the wrong side of a majority but nowhere near the numbers of really troubled presidents: Truman (23 percent), Nixon (23 percent), Carter (26 percent), George W. Bush (21 percent). Unemployment numbers tick as do employment numbers. And consumer confidence is gaining a little. The IRS has replaced Wall Street, oil companies, and pollsters on the bottom rung of the food chain. And revelations about the NSA knowing all, seeing all, and hearing all about all of us may just unite liberals, conservatives, libertarians, and socialists. This is the one to watch. So I downgrade the president this past week because events are getting ahead of him again.
The Obama Anomaly
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By: John Zogby Forbes.com Contributor
Warning: I am going to be a multi-armed pollster. Zogby Analytics has just completed a poll - all taken after the revelation that the National Security Administration has been collecting "meta-data from Americans' telephone calls, Skye conversations, Google searches, and more. Surprisingly, President Barack Obama's overall job approval rating has dipped just two points to 51% and he is bolstered by strong support from Democrats (90%), liberals (89%), Hispanics (78%), African Americans (93%), and First Globals (62%).
Zogby report card: Obama buoyed by GOP
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John Zogby's Obama Weekly Report Card is Featured in Paul Bedard's "Washington Secrets" Published weekly in The Washington Examiner
Grade for June 3 - June 8: C
Not only has President Obama's overall job rating gone up three points to 53 percent in our Zogby Analytics poll hot off the press (May 29-30), but his numbers have actually improved among Republican voters -- from 17 percent to 25 percent.
New Zogby Poll: Scandal Chatter Doesn’t Matter
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By: John Zogby Forbes.com Contributor
At least for the time being, the scandals currently being investigated by Congress are not damaging the President of the United States. A new poll by Zogby Analytics shows President Barack Obama actually regaining lost ground in his job approval. His approval rating now stands at 53% -- the exact percentage he had when he won re-election last November and up 2 points over his rating in early May. His disapproval rating remained at 46%. The poll of 887 likely voters was taken online May 29 and 30.
His approval is up 5 points among Republicans (from 17% to 22%) and 3 points among conservatives (from 22% to 25%), while it has stayed about the same among Democrats (86%) and independents (42%). Mr. Obama is up among all age groups, particularly among the youngest voters (from 53% to 59%) and the oldest voters (from 24% to 34%).