President Barack Obama's job approval in the Gallup Poll's daily tracking survey today -- 47 percent -- marks a new low for the president's job ratings.
Obama's approval has fallen below 50 percent in recent Gallup tracking, and had reached a low of 48 percentage points before today's newest report, the average of surveys taken over the past three days.
"Any slight bump in support Obama received coincident with his new Afghanistan policy proved to be very short-lived, as his approval rating returned to below the majority level by the weekend, and slipped further to 47 percent in Dec. 4-6 polling,'' Gallup's Jeffrey Jones reports.
"Afghanistan is just one of many high-profile issues with which the president is dealing, Jones notes. "Immediate public reaction to his new Afghanistan policy showed 51 [percemt in favor and 40 perccent opposed, according to a Dec. 2 USA Today/Gallup poll....
"Additionally, in recent days Obama has been ramping up his focus on finding ways to create jobs for out-of-work Americans, and is planning a major speech on Tuesday outlining his ideas for spurring job creation. In late November, Gallup found slight majorities of Americans disapproving of the way Obama was handling job creation and the economy more generally.''
So far in December, Obama has averaged 50 percent job approval in the Gallup tracking, which measured the president's public approval rating at 69 percent days after inauguration.
Gallup reports today: "That is similar to the (first) December averages for Ronald Reagan (49 percent) and Bill Clinton (53 percent), who also took office when the economy was struggling."
(President Barack Obama pictured above speaking of the economy today in the Oval Office, during a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Obama spoke of smaller than expected losses in the financial market bailouts and how some of the money could be used to spur job creation. Photo by Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images.)
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