Politics
Obama’s poll numbers continue to rise
U.S. President.,Barack Obama
President Obama’s job-approval numbers remain poor, but at 49% they have rebounded to their strongest point since March, showing substantial improvements from young voters, seniors, and independents in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Since September, Obama’s approval rating has risen by 9 percentage points among Democrats, to reach 82 percent, and 8 points among Republicans, now hitting 19 percent. But the demographic where Obama has seen the biggest improvement in recent months? Conservatives, where approval of Obama has climbed 13 percentage points and now sits at 32 percent.
Obama’s negative ratings have melted a bit too. From September through November majorities disapproved, slipping to his current 47 percent disapproval rating. While the balance of opinion on Obama is very narrowly split, this is the first time since his post-Osama bin Laden approval bump in May that the president’s approvers have numerically outnumbered disapprovers.