U.S President Barack Obama’s approval rating has declined to an all-time low according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Just 42 percent approve Obama’s job performance, which is down five points from earlier this month.
The issues related to NSA spying, Government Shutdown, the debate over Syria’s chemical weapons, and the new healthcare implementation problems are attributed for the this much reduction in Obama’s approval rate.
Read the full poll here (.pdf)
About Approval Rating:
In the United States, presidential job approval ratings were introduced by George Gallup in the late 1930s to gauge public support for the President of the United States during his term. An approval rating is a percentage determined by a polling which indicates the percentage of respondents to an opinion poll who approve of a particular person or program. Typically, an approval rating is given to a political figure based on responses to a poll in which a sample of people are asked whether they approve or disapprove of that particular political figure. A typical question might ask:
- “Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as President?”
Like most surveys that predict public opinion, the approval rating is subjective. Many unscientific approval rating systems exist that skew popular opinion. However, the approval rating is generally accepted as a statistically valid indicator of the comparative changes in the popular US mood regarding a president.
