New Poll Shows Vast Improvement in President Obama’s Approval Rating
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Your Black World.
The most recent Gallup Poll presents information that should be exciting to the Obama Administration. For the first time since this summer, more Americans approve of the job the president’s doing than disapprove. According to the poll, 47 percent of Americans say they approve of the way President Obama is doing his job, which is a five percent increase since the same poll was taken on December 16th.
The percentage of Americans who say they disapprove of the president has dropped to 45 percent, which is a decline of five percentage points relative to the last poll.
President Obama’s improvement is likely driven by the recent successful standoff he had with the Republicans over the payroll tax situation. The results don’t mean much for the long term, but it’s a great way for the president to start the new year.
I am in agreement with Dr. Julianne Malveaux, who made the point that President Obama should be applauded for his most recent performance. Republicans have increasingly shown themselves to a party for the rich that doesn’t care about the future of our great nation, and by being patient, cool and deliberate, President Obama got the Republican leadership to fold.
Strong leadership in the face of Republican challenges is what Americans have continued to seek from President Obama. While the payroll tax issue is only one incident, it is a tremendous improvement over the scorn that millions of Americans had toward the president this time last year. As President Obama takes off for his Hawaiian vacation with his wife, kids and dog, he can rest well on the beach knowing that America is proud of its man.
Dr. Boyce Watkins is a Professor at Syracuse University and founder of the Your Black World Coalition. To have Dr. Boyce commentary delivered to your email, please click here.
If he keep talking to everyday people his poll will continue to rise…..This should have been done several years ago….
President Obama is the ultimate campaigner and he hasn’t even started campaigning yet. His approval rating will continue to increase as the shenanigans of the GOP candidates are exposed each day and one flavor of the week steps down to make room for another. The Obama administration is also scheduled to make political history by being the first political campaign to raise nearly one billion dollars.
Seems like the president is becoming more proficient, at playing the game. However I am learning to believe entirely none of what I hear and little of what I see! especially if the source of the information is corporate owned main stream media. no? Time will tell.
This in spite of the efforts of You, Smiley the pimp and the misguided West. Look as if BLACK folks are smarter then you guys think
I am not surprised President Obama polls have gone up. Yes, let’s re-elect President Obama in November 2012. We now know FoxNews and Republicans are frustrated their candidates have eliminated themselves by exposing one another’s evil past and present. It started with Herman Cain – boy he was coming strong – but we found he is adulterer, women groper, harasser and above all racist. Then came Romney. He was flying high in polls – but we found Romney has refused to release his income tax returns fearing people will find him corrupt. Romney also is a Mormon who believes Blacks are cursed from Cain (Adam and Eve). Perry exposed himself as racist – having a stone at his house with foul word. Perry is also a drunk and mama boy-brain freeze. No- Just dumb. Perry has been disqualified as candidate in Iowa. Then came Newt Gingrich only to find him the most evil person on this planet-adulterer, inhuman towards his wife and kids, racist and corrupt. Newt has been disqualified as candidate in his own home state. We trusted Ron Paul. Boy- we found him a KKK operative and gets campaign money from them. Bachmann is corrupt and is looking to be first lady. We don’t who is going to marry her in the WH. The rest of GOP candidates are not worthy mentioning. Seniors are running away from Republicans after Paul Ryan came up with his Ryan-care. Ryan-Care kills all seniors who exhaust $5000 in medical bills. Ryan-Care is for insurance profits. As whole American people are smarter now than in 2010 when they fell for TEA Party lies. No more. President Obama has ended the war in Iraq as he promised. We have now Affordable Health care law enabling 31mi poor Americans to have insurance. President Obama is also fighting for tax cut for low and middle income people. As a whole Republicans don’t have a viable candidate now. All are corrupt, racists and adulterers. Let’s vote for President Obama and Democrats in November 2012
If I had a dollar for every time I bet a Republican friend that President Obama was going to win the 2012 election, I wouldn’t be rich but I could sure go to a real nice restaurant for dinner. I have heard every reason why President Obama was not going to win. I am sticking to my guns. President Obama is going to be re-elected.
First, all of the Republican candidates have serious flaws. Former Massachusetts Governor Romney has had such a bad reputation as a flip flopper that during the last election cycle attendees at the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conferece) were giving out thin, colored flip flops with his various conflicting positions written on them. They were so colorful that I made a mobile out of them
Rick Perry comes off to the Millenial generation as a conservative who is out of touch because of his stance on a variety of social issues. Ron Paul will do wel in Iowa,l but not enough to get himself to the top of the ticket. And now he owes an explanation for the racist newsletter with his name on it, as well why decided to take a photo-op with the KKK Grand Wizard Don. Black.
And Newt Gingrich, the smartest of all the Republicans but not smart enough to have his name placed on the Virginia ballot his home state, he is going to have to raise a lot more money to get the organization he needs to snag the party’s nomination.
President Obama is going to win election because he has kept his campaign promises. The Republicans I talk to cite the economic data (that they caused by the way); no president gets re-elected with the unemployment rate as high as it is. It may be historically true but President Obama has been honest and has fought to get people to have jobs. He has become the hero of the middle-class and the poor.
It has become a national sport to put odds on who wins 2012. I think there is no question. President Obama wins. He has done a very good job in a very rocky time and the American people will remember next November.
If he give us more government relief instead of wasting it on other white countries, he’d do better. That is OUR money, for the black people of America. We are owed it for building this country. Why does it go to some whites in Greece or wherever? Because whites are wasting our money on whites to keep it from the black people.
More black politicians means more for the black race. The less whites get, the better. We need money to raise as many babies as we can. They need to eat and they need a house. Whites don’t breed. We don’t let them.
You really need to understand that President Obama is not merely a “black politician” or the president of a “black” orgnization. He is the President of the United States of America he can’t think black this or white that because as president he has to b color blind, that’s the mistake many blacks seem to make. For example, let’s say Ron Paul were elected. How would you feel if he purposely addressed white people’s problem simply because he happens to be white himself? I know you wouldn’t like that, in fact you’d probably protest it with all your heart. Your argument would best be addressed to the black caucus.
how right you are. i’ve said that all along!
He surely aint no president in the founding fatthers sense or anyone else for that matter. He doesnt even come close to matching Bill Clinton, including the bj fiasco. This prick has got a pearl necklace on himself, not the other way around, that means a downlow black blowjob is how he likes it
well, Obumhole, your day is coming and it cant come too soon, Your fake ass polls can say you are higher than Kingdom come, but it sure as hell doesnt make it so. Get a real job and take that moochie old sow and her two brats with you when you leave, Dont forget to get the White House fumigated when you leave, Right now, its not fit for man nor beast, of which you are neither.
GOPers, TEA Party, FoxNews and other right-wing media are on panic mode undesirable candidate might score GOP nomination. They don’t like Newt because of his baggage. They don’t like Romney because he’s flapper and not quite right wing.They jumped on Miss Minnesota – Bachmann, but she’s a woman-GOP is all white rich males’ organization. Now they are recruiting Santorum. Santorum is unknown to main street republicans. As whole GOPers, TEA Partiers, FoxNews and right media are on panic. They don’t have candidate to beat President Obama. Well, I invite them all to join me voting to re-elect President Obama.
I just read how Ron Paul is winning, yes, winning every single contest he is put into, but tthe media is controlling the ratings, placing him below the others in their vain attempt to propel the HNIC to even loftier heights(if one can go higher than a basement in an outhouse) if possible. Soon, all the lies about change will come back to bite him on his disgusting black ass, Like getting it on with the Bankers who bankrupted the world, only to accept their money from Goldman Sachs. Imagine, him with his paw out accepting blood money and the other paw pledging allegiance, to what? thats anyones guess, most likely to his satanic commie god Karl Mark or Engels.
Ron Paul will do well in Iowa only, the polls you are speaking of deals with Iowa. There are still other states he has to deal with and Romney already has New Hampshire (which is bigger prize than Iowa) sewed up. I find that a majority of Ron Paul’s supporters love to incite conspiracy theories, the media is not controlling the ratings although the old saying is true. There are three kind of lies: plain lies, damn lies, and election polls.
Ron Paul is ahead in All the polls, Its only the MSM that fudges the scales to make it appear
Obongo party is winning, We all know now, tha Obongo is a gay prez, and likes his action on
the down low, Makes u wonder what kind of nasty surprise he got when he had to sire his
two sprogs, tho doesn it? I think Moochelle has got everyone fooled, I dont think she beez a she, I
just saw a pic with a huge lump between her legs and it looked like a gorilla vulva if you ask me.
Yep, they can do amazing things in surgery these days if you gots the money, and Obongo gots
alot of it from Goldman Sachs, I here tell hes got his own private redphone straight to the CEO whenever he needs more greenbacks, Mostly for Chimpy and its two brats for holiday money tho.
He spends it in the downlow bars in DC dressed up like Michael Jackscoon.
His name is Barack Obama and his wife’s name is Michelle, the mere fact that you are visiting this particular website illustrates your utter fear of President Obama. I suspect that you are the same idior that has been posting on this website with various names for several days now. What this shows more than anything else is that you simply don’t have a life. Your insults and racial ephitets means absolutely nothing because they are made by an ignorant useless and worthless individual. “The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.” -Ronald Reagam