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Poll: Obama's Public Approval Increases

   VOA News 13 January 2011
   U.S.  President  Barack  Obama  speaks during the "Together We Thrive:
   Tucson  and  America" at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona,
   12 Jan 2011

Photo: Reuters

   U.S.  President  Barack  Obama  speaks during the "Together We Thrive:
   Tucson  and  America" at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona,
   12 Jan 2011

   A new opinion poll finds U.S. voters are starting to look at President
   Barack Obama's performance more favorably.
   The survey released Thursday by Quinnipiac University finds 48 percent
   of  voters  approve  of the job the president is doing, compared to 44
   percent who disapprove. Â
   The survey also finds Americans are almost evenly split on whether the
   Obama  presidency  is  a  success  or  a  failure  -- 47 percent to 45
   percent.
   The  poll surveyed more than 1,600 registered voters from January 4 to
   January 11.  It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percent.
   The  institute's  assistant  director,  Peter  Brown, said Mr. Obama's
   approval  rating  is trending higher, although he said it is not clear
   if it will remain an upward trend.
   A  Quinnipiac poll just after November's midterm elections showed that
   nearly half of U.S. voters, 49 percent, disapproved of the president's
   performance.
   While  the  latest poll finds Mr. Obama's overall rating has improved,
   there  is  little  change  in  the  pattern  of  his support, with the
   strongest  approval  among groups who already have a history of giving
   him  strong  support.   That  includes  women,  blacks, Hispanics and
   members of the president's Democratic Party.  Meanwhile, men, whites,
   Republican Party members and independent voters continue to disapprove
   of the president's performance.
   A  separate  survey, released Wednesday, also indicates that Americans
   are looking at the president's performance more favorably.
   The  Associated Press-GfK survey finds 53 percent of Americans approve
   of  the  way  the  president  is doing his job.  That poll also shows
   voters  are  growing  more  confident  that  Mr.  Obama and Republican
   lawmakers will be able to work together.
   More  than  1,000  voters  took  part in the survey, conducted between
   January 5 and January 10.  It had a margin of effort of 4.2 percent.

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