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12-20-2012, 08:39 AM
A new CNN/ORC poll finds a slight majority of Americans sees the Republican party's policies and views as too extreme, 53% to 37%, a first for the GOP.
Key finding: "It probably doesn't help that House Speaker John Boehner, who's leading GOP fiscal cliff negotiations with the president, is held in fairly low regard, particularly in comparison to Obama. According to the poll, 34% of the public approves of how the top Republican in the House handling his job. By contrast, the president's approval rating stands at 52%."
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/12/20/majority_say_republican_policies_too_extreme.html
Obama Approval Rating Hits 57 Percent In CBS Poll
President Obama's approval rating has reached 57 percent, a CBS News poll (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57559902/poll-most-predict-major-problems-if-fiscal-cliff-isnt-averted/) released Tuesday found.
This marks Obama's strongest rating in the poll since the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011. His rating in the poll is up from October, when a pre-election poll found 50 percent of voters approving of the president's performance.
The CBS poll, which focused on the fiscal cliff negotiations, also found that 37 percent (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57559902/poll-most-predict-major-problems-if-fiscal-cliff-isnt-averted) of those surveyed think the country is on the right track, down from 40 percent in September.
The poll surveyed 1,179 respondents between December 12 and December 16, with a three percent margin of error.
Other polls have shown Obama's popularity rising in recent weeks. An Associated Press-GfK (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/07/obama-approval-rating-ris_n_2256681.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2012) released earlier this month also found the president's approval at 57 percent, up 5 points from a pre-election poll. And in a Quinnipiac University survey (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/06/obama-approval-rating_n_2250788.html), the president's approval rating reached 53 percent, a three-year high for the president in the university's poll.
HuffPost Pollster's chart, which tracks all publicly available polls, currently finds Obama approval rating at 52.6 percent, his strongest rating since late 2009:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/18/obama-approval-rating_n_2325974.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular,elect ions-2012
Key finding: "It probably doesn't help that House Speaker John Boehner, who's leading GOP fiscal cliff negotiations with the president, is held in fairly low regard, particularly in comparison to Obama. According to the poll, 34% of the public approves of how the top Republican in the House handling his job. By contrast, the president's approval rating stands at 52%."
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/12/20/majority_say_republican_policies_too_extreme.html
Obama Approval Rating Hits 57 Percent In CBS Poll
President Obama's approval rating has reached 57 percent, a CBS News poll (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57559902/poll-most-predict-major-problems-if-fiscal-cliff-isnt-averted/) released Tuesday found.
This marks Obama's strongest rating in the poll since the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011. His rating in the poll is up from October, when a pre-election poll found 50 percent of voters approving of the president's performance.
The CBS poll, which focused on the fiscal cliff negotiations, also found that 37 percent (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57559902/poll-most-predict-major-problems-if-fiscal-cliff-isnt-averted) of those surveyed think the country is on the right track, down from 40 percent in September.
The poll surveyed 1,179 respondents between December 12 and December 16, with a three percent margin of error.
Other polls have shown Obama's popularity rising in recent weeks. An Associated Press-GfK (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/07/obama-approval-rating-ris_n_2256681.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2012) released earlier this month also found the president's approval at 57 percent, up 5 points from a pre-election poll. And in a Quinnipiac University survey (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/06/obama-approval-rating_n_2250788.html), the president's approval rating reached 53 percent, a three-year high for the president in the university's poll.
HuffPost Pollster's chart, which tracks all publicly available polls, currently finds Obama approval rating at 52.6 percent, his strongest rating since late 2009:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/18/obama-approval-rating_n_2325974.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular,elect ions-2012