OBAMA APPROVAL RATING UP
For the first time this year, more people approve of President Barack Obama's performance that disapprove, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday morning. The latest soundings come as the White House is seeking to deal with the political fallout from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the president has been trying to find a route to bipartisanship by reachig out to GOP lawmakers in the hope of getting help with his legislative agenda. According to the poll American voters approve of Obama's job by 48 percent, up from April when 44 percent approved. The findings are based on the survey of 1,914 people from May 19 to May 24. It has a margin of wrror of plus or minus 2.2 % points. "The increase in President Barack Obama's job approval is a welcome step for the White House. His ratings have been in the no man's land of just below parity for some time, and now the question is whether this is the beginning of an upward trend or just a blip", said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University poll. The poll follows most other national polls showing a steady erosion of faith in Obaama since he took office. Of course, Obama's popularity then was at an all time high, partly because he was following Bush's admininstration which ended badly with a political thump, and partly from Obama's own upbeat campaign that led him to become the nation's first black president. "I know it's been 18 tough months", Obama said Tuesday night at a fundraiser in San Francisco, and I know I've got more grey hair" , I know some folks say, well you know, he's not as cool as he was". when they had all the posters around and everything, now they put on a Hitler moustache:scream: on these posters" sas Obama "that's quite a change". He acknowledged that he paid a political price. "You know, my political ratings kind of start sinking, and some people are just entirely satisfied", he said. The president blamed his loss of popularity on the reality that governing is harder than winning an election, as difficult as that is. "Remember what the campaign was about-hope & change"? Obama asked supporters, "People weren't paying attention to me when I said 'change is hard', people-a lot of folks, they just missed that part", he said. Complicating Obama's standing administration's inability to find a working relationship with the Republicans. Obama began his administration taking a lets-reason-together approach coupled with the knowledge that Democrats had the votes to try to go it alone on tough issues. That has changed with the Democrats loss of the super-majority in the Senate and the usual posturing that comes in a mid-term election year. It has made the search for bipartisanship a sort of political quest for the Holy Grail and about as likely to succeed, given the results "Look, understand this about bipartisanship, I have a track record in my legislative career working with folks across the aisle" Obama said so I try to get everyone together on all things, regardless of their political affiliation"
Michael Muskal.. The Los Angeles Times~
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