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Poll: Obama's approval rating highest in seven years

Nolan D. Mccaskill, POLITICO, NOV 23, 2016

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/poll-obama-approval-rating-231789

accessed Jan 16, 2017 

● 歐巴馬民調支持度57%是7年以來最高。2009年，他當時支持度為58%。8年來他增加就業機會17.2million，數量僅次於 Bill Clinton的 21.5million。

● 考量8年來他不斷受反對黨杯葛，如此成績實屬不易。

林中斌 2017.1.16

President Barack Obama’s approval rating is at a seven-year high, according to a CNN/ORC national poll released Wednesday.

Obama enjoys a post-election approval rating of 57 percent, his highest mark since September 2009, when his approval rating sat at 58 percent.

The president also has a favorability rating of almost 60 percent, his highest since October 2009. Obama has a net favorability of +21 percentage points (59 percent favorable, 38 percent unfavorable), far outpacing Americans’ views of the Democratic (-15 percentage points) and Republican (-11 percentage points) parties.

Fifty-four percent have an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party, 9 percentage points higher than around this time last month. The 54 percent mark is the highest unfavorable opinion of the party since 1992.

Meantime, Americans view the Republican Party 5 points more favorably than they did in October. Its 41 percent favorability is its highest point since August 2015.

As for Obama’s incoming successor, President-elect Donald Trump, 54 percent of respondents still don’t believe he cares about people like them and are split 49 percent to 49 percent on whether they believe he can bring about the change America needs.

Fifty-seven percent said he isn’t honest and trustworthy, 66 percent don’t see him as an admirable person and 54 percent think he will divide the country rather than of unite it. Half of the respondents do believe, however, that Trump can manage the government effectively, while 49 percent believe he can’t.

The survey of 1,003 American adults was conducted Nov. 17-20 via landlines and cellphones. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.