FOX News Poll: Obama's One-Month Report Card

[Nick]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,496545,00.html

While Barack Obama continues to receive marks that would please any president, his ratings are starting to come down to earth a bit.

One month into Obama's term 60 percent of Americans approve of the job he is doing as president, down from 65 percent three weeks ago (27-28 January 2009). Similarly, the portion of people that disapproves has increased to 26 percent, up from 16 percent. Almost all of the change can be attributed to a decrease in approval and an increase in disapproval among Republicans. In fact, among Obama's party faithful, his job approval has gone up from 85 percent in late January to 90 percent today.

[snip]
ok... lets do some math here kiddos...
his approval rating:
was at 65%, now at 60% - so to find the percentage change: 60/65= 92% of the people that approved, still approve, an 8% change.

his disapproval rating:
was at 16%, now at 26% - so to find the percentage change: 16/26= a 62% increase in people that disapprove.

so now according to Fox news of all sources, an 8% drop in approval and a 62% increase in disapproval is similar?

 

[flamatrix99]

They didn't say that they polled the line outside the welfare office in North Baton Rouge!

 

[nikolai]

What's even more disturbing are the other 15-20% of the people that couldn't even formulate an opinion.