7/25/2009

This week has been a very exciting week to say the least. President Obama has been strongly pushing for his healthcare reform, including a primetime press conference Wednesday Evening. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that there will be no vote on the Healthcare bill before the August recess, a major deadline President Obama had wanted to meet. This week has also had an interesting week of polls. Let's take a look at some of the numbers.

President Obama Approval Index: -9 (7/25-Rasmussen);
Overall Approval: 49% Approve, 51% Disapprove (7/25-Rasmussen)

Now let's take a look at the CLN Poll of Polls, an average of the major polls taken between 7/18/2009 and 7/25/2009.

Approve: 55%
Disapprove:42%

Healthcare:

Healthcare Reform has taken a major hit in the last week, with support for the measure presented by President Obama and Democrats in Congress falling to new lows. Rasmussen came out with a survey early in the week showing that now just 44% of the American Public supports the reform, with 53% opposed. Fox also has numbers out with only 36% supporting the measure, and 47% opposed. Perhaps even more disturbing for Obama is only 24% strongly support the Reform, while 37% strongly oppose it. As of now, without the support of the American public, the odds of the current bill being passed are very slim, due to 2010 being an election year. The latest poll on the issure of Healthcare for President Obama is Fox with 43% approving of the President on the issue, while 45% disapprove. The CLN Poll of Polls on this issue for the week shows:

Approve: 47%
Disapprove: 46%


That wraps it up for this week. Stay tuned for another exciting week of Politics!

Joe Venable