Gallup: Obama Approval Rating Slides To 49%

[AeroGuyDC]

Originally Posted by pch1013

Seeing as how his average approval rating for all of 2012 (during which, as you may recall, he won a presidential election) was only 47.6%, I don't think Obama will be losing much sleep over this result.

Oh, don't worry. This is just the beginning of his precipitous slide. As more details surface, the number goes down. Clinton, the liberal hero, hit 37% before rebounding.

[pch1013]

And Obama's all-time low was 38%, in August 2011.

I look forward to Gallup's numbers about the IRS scandal. They should make for some interesting reading.

[dsjj251]

Originally Posted by AeroGuyDC

Roughly 1,200 people has been deemed by most to be the appropriate sample size for a population the size of the United States in order to achieve an acceptable confidence level and confidence interval.

Yes, but the polls are usually wrong and sometimes its even outside of the margin of error. Some of these polls i have seen people post have had 9% margins of error.