The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 30% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11 Most voters now expect that over the next six months. That’s up fourteen points over the past month. At the same time, the number in the United States has declined. The climate change legislation passed by the House of Representatives earlier this summer receives mixed reviews from the public. The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for Updates also available on and Overall, 45% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That’s down a point from yesterday and the lowest level of total approval yet measured for Obama. Fifty-three percent (53%) now disapprove. See recent demographic highlights from the tracking polls. In addition to our daily tracking, Rasmussen Reports has released a month-by-month review of the President’s Approval ratings. This allows a longer-term look at trends. In August, President Obama’s full-month ratings fell below 50%for the first time. It is important to remember that the Rasmussen Reports job approval ratings are based upon a sample of likely voters. Some other firms base their approval ratings on samples of all adults. President Obama's numbers are always several points higher in a poll of adults rather than likely voters. That's because some of the President's most enthusiastic supporters, such as young adults, are less likely to turn out to vote. Other factors are also important to consider when comparing Job Approval ratings from different polling firms
rasmussen is misleading The highlighted portion of the article should be at the begining of the article, otherwise these poll numbers are highly misleading. I remember during the election last year, Chris Matthews said that Rasmussen is a republican poll and he aint never lied!!lol They poll more republicans and less democrates, also they don't poll Obama's largest constituents THE YOUTH. Obama, wouldn't even be in the White House had it not been for the youth vote, so not polling them is very misleading to his actual poll numbers. Thats why its important to pay attention to every poll and to know what and whom they are leaving out when they conduct these polls. If you visit rcp.com, it has a list of all the tracking polls for the day, not just one and it averages out the results of each poll. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
A Fordham University professor ***********0000ff]rated the national pollsters[/COLOR] on their record in Election 2008. We also have provided a ***********0000ff]summary of our results[/COLOR] for your review. In 2008, Obama won 53%-46% and our final poll showed Obama winning 52% to 46%. While we were pleased with the final result, ***********810081]Rasmussen Reports[/COLOR] was especially pleased that our data was the least volatile of all the tracking polls. Our daily tracking showed Obama with a stable and solid lead with more than 50% of the vote every single day for the last six weeks of the campaign. In 2004 George W. Bush received 50.7% of the vote while John Kerry earned 48.3%. Rasmussen Reports was the only firm to project both candidates’ totals within half a percentage point by projecting that Bush would win 50.2% to 48.5%
Rasmussen, has had a documented history of slightly favoring the Republicans long in advance of an election (though not when an election approaches). Rasmussen, also uses a different approval rating formula than everyone else. Other than coming close in the 04 and 08 elections results, I haven't seen any evidence of them being consistently accurate. So again, since they conduct their polls leaving out Obama's MAIN constituents, the youth and have a history of favoring the republicans, I will take their poll results with a grain of salt.
