Obama's approval rating slips to 53% at Rasmussen, 56% at WSJ/NBC, 63% at CBS/NYTimes

[Regis Philbin]

Dear Leader's numbers are actually lower than George W. Bush's were in June 2001.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Sunday, June 21, 2009

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 32% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-four percent (34%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -2. That’s the President’s lowest rating to date and the first time the Presidential Approval Index has fallen below zero for Obama.

Sixty percent (60%) of Democrats Strongly Approve of the President’s performance but only 8% of Republicans share that view. Sixty-one percent (61%) of Republicans Strongly Disapprove.

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.

Overall, 53% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance so far. Forty-six percent (46%) disapprove.

[Richard Tafoya]

LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-polls18-2009jun18,0,4319800.story
Some of the most acute problems that President Obama confronts, including a struggling economy and mounting federal deficit, appear to be taking a moderate toll on his still-strong public approval after nearly five months in office, two new public opinion polls suggest.

One, a survey conducted for the New York Times and CBS News, found that a solid majority of Americans believed that Obama had not developed a strategy for dealing with runaway budget deficits.

The second, conducted for the Wall Street Journal and NBC News, found that the president faces challenges on several fronts, including increasing public concern about federal spending and the bailout of ailing automotive companies. A majority also voiced disapproval of Obama's determination to close within a year the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Taken together, these surveys suggest that Obama faces a limited amount of time to convince the public that he is taking the right courses and a finite period before the problems that he inherited become identified as his own political liabilities.

At the same time, the president's overall job approval remains strong, though it slid in the Journal-NBC survey.

Obama's overall public job approval stood at 63% in the New York Times-CBS survey, and 56% in the Wall Street Journal-NBC poll -- down from 61% in a Journal-NBC poll in April.

The public also appeared more optimistic about the nation's economic future in the Journal-NBC poll that it did a few weeks earlier -- with Americans still more likely to blame the George W. Bush administration for a federal deficit expected to reach a record $1.8 trillion this year. Obama pledged to cut the deficit in half by the end of his four-year term.