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President Barack Obama’s approval rating jumped 5 percentage points from November to December, fueled by dramatic gains among middle-class Americans, according to a CNN/ORC International poll released Tuesday.

Obama’s approval rating rose from 44% last month to 49% now, and the results suggest the debate over extending the payroll tax cuts in Congress is helping Obama’s efforts to portray himself as defender of the middle class. The poll was conducted from Friday through Sunday, while the Senate was passing the measure with bipartisan support and House Speaker John Boehner was giving it a dim outlook in his chamber.

Obama’s gains appear to have come at the expense of congressional Republicans and the GOP in general -- the party’s overall rating has dropped 6 points, to 43%, since June while Democrats’ rating has stayed at 55%.

And a majority now say they have more confidence in Obama than in Republicans in Congress -- last spring, only 44% felt that way.

Democrats do particularly well among middle-income Americans, while the Republicans win support only from the top end of the income scale.

CNN Poll: President’s approval nearing 50% – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

DarrylS

Congress is polling at 11% which is a smidge higher than whale shyt...

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That is actually an improvement. Last time I heard it was about 8%

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Its starting to look like Obama's gonna have to work about as hard as George Washington did way back when to get re-elected.

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patsfan13

The poll looks like an outlier it appears they may have over sampled dems. When you look at the internals Obama has negative approval rating with both pubs and independents, from the CNN poll internals:


So they juiced the numbers to get the desired result.

It also doesn't come close to the numbers in the Daily Presidental Tracking Polls from Gallup and Rasmussen which are in close agreement, with his approval disapproval at 43% positive and 50% negative:

Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval


Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports™


Nice of CNN to try to rally the troops.....

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Nikolai

Tis been a very long time since Congress had good numbers...

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DarrylS

Deservedly so.. but these numbers are historic.

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JackBauer

Fail.

Approval numbers corroborated by ABC/WaPo poll: ABC/WaPo | TPM PollTracker

Must be tough watching the GOP go down in flames over the payroll tax.

patsfan13

Unfortunately when you go to TPM and click on the poll to get the internals the pdf doesn't contain any information on the % approval numbers or no indication of the % of dems, pubs and independents polled.

So it contains no real information.

I would also point out that both the CNN and the poll you cite polls adults and not filtered for registered or likely voters.

This looks like Christmas PR for the administration, perhaps orchestrated by the members of the "Journo-list" carrying water for Obama.

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."