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Favorable Ratings For Speaker Boehner Slip

The honeymoon period may be over for House Speaker John Boehner with his favorable marks falling sharply from last month's high.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters shows that 37% have at least a somewhat favorable impression of Boehner, down 10 points from last month. Forty-one percent (41%) view the Ohio congressman unfavorably, while another 23% don't know enough about him to form an opinion. These numbers include nine percent (9%) who view Boehner Very Favorably and 17% who view him Very Unfavorably. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Boehner first received a spike in favorable ratings to 41% in November as media coverage of him increased following the GOP takeover of the House in the midterm elections. His favorable rating increased steadily in the months following to a high of 47% in March. Prior to November, Boehner's favorables had stayed in a range of 21% to 32% since Barack Obama took office in January 2009.

Still, Boehner's predecessor Nancy Pelosi remains the least-liked congressional leader. Thirty-percent (30%) share a favorable opinion of the Democrat, while 59% view her unfavorably. Those numbers include Very Favorable marks from 11% and Very Unfavorable reviews from 44%. Ratings for the House minority leader are down slightly from March.

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters nationwide was conducted on April 25-26, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

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