Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Wednesday, November 04, 2015

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama's job performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) disapprove (see trends).

The latest figures include 26% who Strongly Approve of the way Obama is performing as president and 40% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14.

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Democrats are ramping up again for more gun control, but voters are even more supportive now of their right to own a gun.

We’ll tell you at 10:30 a.m. Eastern today how sincere voters think politicians are who call for more gun control after a mass shooting incident.

Those in Congress who are most supportive of stricter gun control are less supportive of imprisoning illegal immigrants who commit major felonies in this country. Senate Democrats recently blocked passage of "Kate's Law," but 56% of voters support legislation imposing mandatory prison terms on illegal immigrants convicted of major felonies who have been deported but have again entered the United States illegally. The law is named after Kate Steinle, the young woman murdered in San Francisco this summer by an illegal immigrant who had been deported several times and come back.

Most voters agree that illegal immigration increases serious crime in America. 

The president last Friday took the fateful step of sending a small number of special operations combat forces into Syria, opening the door for a larger troop commitment to stem the advance of the radical Islamic group ISIS in the region. Once again America is going to war in an undeclared war. 

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Houston voters yesterday rejected legislation giving gays, lesbians and others additional anti-discrimination rights. Critics said it would open women’s restrooms to men, and we’ve found that that’s a critical distinction for Americans when it comes to laws advancing new transgender rights.

It looks like Americans have a case of the blues. Why so glum? We decided to find out what America thinks.

Only 27% of voters think the country is heading in the right direction.

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Some readers wonder how we come up with our job approval ratings for the president since they often don’t show as dramatic a change as some other pollsters do. It depends on how you ask the question and whom you ask.

To get a sense of longer-term job approval trends for the president, Rasmussen Reports compiles our tracking data on a full month-by-month basis.

Rasmussen Reports has been a pioneer in the use of automated telephone polling techniques, but many other firms still utilize their own operator-assisted technology (see methodology).

Daily tracking results are collected via telephone surveys of 500 likely voters per night and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. To reach those who have abandoned traditional landline telephones, Rasmussen Reports uses an online survey tool to interview randomly selected participants from a demographically diverse panel. The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 1,500 Likely Voters is +/- 2.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Results are also compiled on a full-week basis and crosstabs for full-week results are available for Platinum Members.