Gallup Poll: Obama's Approval Plummets

The Gallup organization first started asking Americans how they approved of the job the president was doing in the 1940s.

A USA Today/Gallup Poll out Tuesday morning delivers some bad news for Barack Obama.

Here are the key finding of the national poll:

By 49%-47%, those surveyed disapprove of how he is handling the economy, a turnaround from his 55%-42% approval in May. The steepest drop came from conservative and moderate Democrats.

By 50%-44%, they disapprove of how he is handling healthcare policy.

A 59% majority say his proposals call for too much government spending, and 52% say they call for too much expansion of government power.

Expectations of the economy's turnaround are souring a bit. In February, the average prediction for a recovery was 4.1 years; now it's 5.5 years.

The USA Today/Gallup Poll is sure undermine the President's position as he pushes for his ambitious universal healthcare plan.

"His ratings have certainly come back down to Earth in a very short time period," Republican pollster Whit Ayres told USA Today.

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New poll showed that if the 2012 election was held today…  If the match up was between:

 

Obama vs. Romney

Obama   45%

Romney 45%

Other Candidate 7%

Undecided 3%

Obama vs. Palin

Obama 48%

Palin    42%  (even after her resignation and in this uncertain time for her)

Other Candidate 7%

Undecided 3%

 

Source:  USA Today

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