The latest Gallup poll has more bad news for the President:
PRINCETON, NJ — At 36%, Americans give President Barack Obama his lowest job approval rating yet on his handling of the economy. By contrast, the president’s 51% approval rating on handling foreign affairs is up slightly from last month.
Gallup measured Americans’ ratings of the president on nine issues in its Feb. 1-3 survey. Obama’s rating on foreign affairs is second only to education at the top of the list; these two constitute the only issues on which Obama receives a majority approval rating. Obama’s rating on his handling of the economy is second only to the federal budget deficit as the lowest of the issues measured.
Here are the numbers on all nine issue areas:
Also, the American public continues to be pessimistic on the right track/wrong track question:
All of which explains why President Obama’s approval numbers continue to drop precipitously:
Absent a major economic turnaround, which seems unlikely in the near future, things are only going to get worse for the President.
