Obama’s Approval Rating Hits 7-Year High

September 12, 2016 2016 Election, News, Politics

Good news for Hillary. The Washington Post reports:



The last time that President Obama’s approval rating in Washington Post-ABC News polling was as high as it is in our new survey was six months after he took office. At 58 percent, Obama’s approval is 15 points higher than it was on the eve of the 2014 elections, where his party got blown out. Hillary Clinton’s hope is that the reversal of opinions on Obama two years later will also lead to a reversal of fortunes for other Democrats — and there’s reason to think that it will.

The biggest negative gap for Obama is among those who voted for Donald Trump in the primary or who support him now. Slightly less disapproving are those who voted for someone besides Trump in the primary. How white voters break down by education and gender closely mirrors the overall polling: White men without college degrees are likely to disapprove of Obama by a much wider margin than white women without degrees, who are more likely to disapprove of him than men with degrees. (That group is split between Clinton and Trump in the new poll.) White women with college degrees are the most likely among white voters to approve of Obama, but the biggest fans of Obama’s performance are Hispanic and black voters and backers of Clinton in the primary and general elections.

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