When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
President Obama declared at a nationally televised press conference last Friday that between now and Election Day, he’s going to remind the American people that “the policies that we have put in place have moved us in the right direction.”
President Bush isn’t out of the woods yet: 50% of Likely U.S. Voters this month say the country’s current economic problems are due more to the recession that began under the Bush administration than to the policies of President Obama.
This past week, President Obama made a highly-publicized push on the economic front, including a proposed $50 billion jobs plan, tax credits for small businesses and a press conference to promote it all. But 48% of voters still say the president is doing a poor job when it comes to handling the economy, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
