Leid Stories - Obama On The Ropes, Reeling From Major Body Blows - 07/07/14

A Gallup poll published last week found that approval of President Barack Obama has tanked to a six-year low, with only 29 percent of Americans saying he’s doing a good job. (The poll also found that only 30 percent thought well of the U.S. Supreme Court, and a paltry 7 percent gave Congress a passing grade.)

The Gallup poll coincided with a Quinnipiac University survey that found one-third of American voters rated Obama the worst U.S. president since World War II. Obama’s presidency began its downward spiral even before the halfway point of his first term.

Polls, of course, are not objective, nor are they necessarily fact-based. But they are useful indicators of attitudes, opinions and varying interpretations of reality, and, often, reasonable predictors of behavior and action.

With this in mind, Leid Stories conducts its own poll today, asking listeners to rate Obama; identify the cause(s) of the president’s precipitous drop in popularity; whether he can rebound, and what impact, if any, the crisis of confidence in the president is having on their political attitudes and decisions this midterm election year.