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Obama Approval 47%; Losses Across Political Spectrum Bring Down Approval of Congress And Its Republicans

By IBOPE Zogby Interactive: 03/15/2011 09:09:00

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Obama approval highest since last October

UTICA, NY - President Barack Obama's job approval rating has edged up to 47% in a new IBOPE Zogby Interactive poll of likely voters, giving him his highest rating since October 2010. These results are from a IBOPE Zogby Interactive poll of likely voters done from March 8-10, 2011.

Overall, do you approve or disapprove of Barack Obama's job as president?

Obama Job Performance	Mar. 8	Mar. 4	Feb. 24	Feb. 21	Feb. 8	Jan. 31	Jan. 4	Dec. 10	Dec. 1	Nov. 22	Nov. 15	Nov. 10	Nov. 1
Approve	47%	44%	46%	45%	46%	44%	43%	39%	42%	39%	42%	42%	45%
Disapprove	52%	55%	53%	55%	53%	56%	56%	61%	58%	60%	58%	57%	54%
Not sure	1%	1%	<1%	1%	<1%	<1%	1%	<1%	<1%	1%	<1%	1%	<1%

Totals may not add up to 100% due to rounding.

Approval of Congress as a whole also continues to slip, and is now at 25%, a seven-point drop since Feb. 24. Approval of Congressional Republicans dropped to 35% after being as high as 42% on Feb. 21. Approval for Congressional Democrats (37%) is now higher than that of their Republican colleagues. On January 31, Republicans tied Democrats in job approval, however, since then Republicans held an approval advantage in succeeding IBOPE Zogby Interactive, until this latest poll.

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