LA Times: Gallup: Obama job rating sinks below 40% for first time

[Patricia M. McBride]

The bus tour being made by Obama (which I personally think is totally political) mentioned in the article is being charged to us, the taxpayers which is a travesty and a total waste of taxpayer money when he could just as easily go on television with his "economy" message and reach everyone in the country! 

 

By Michael A. Memoli

August 14, 2011, 10:31 a.m.

President Obama's summer woes have dragged his approval rating to an all-time low, sinking below 40% for the first time in Gallup's daily tracking poll.

New data posted Sunday shows that 39% of Americans approve of Obama's job performance, while 54% disapprove. Both are the worst numbers of his presidency.

Obama's approval rating has hovered in the 40% range for much of 2011, peaking at 53% in the weeks following the death of Osama bin Laden.

But Americans' view of his job performance continued to tick downward as the debt-ceiling debate heated up. By the time he signed legislation averting a federal default, he was mired in the low-40% range.

read more here:  http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-approval-20110814,...