Update 11/25/2009 For second straight day Obama's approval rating remains at it lowest ever measured by Rasmussen's daily approval polling. and Republicans tie their best lead in the Generic Congressional Ballot weekly poll at Rasmussen.

Now back to original post...

But first the trials of terrorists in a civilian court and Obama's handling of the Fort Hood incident may be linked to Obama's continual downfall in polling along with health care. See more below.



Rasmussen: "The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. This is the lowest Approval Index rating yet measured for President Obama (see trends)...Overall, 45% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That matches the lowest level of total approval yet measured for this president."

This is in the same week that Rasmussen Reports showed support for the health care reform currently in congress at it's lowest ever reported support (see Support for Health Care bill at an all time low according to Rasmussen Reports but cautions that next week's update will indicate a more accurate trend). Notice Obama is not saying all that much about the health care bill as of late. At least not nearly as much as in prior months and now we are getting down to the debate and passage time for the bills. You would think he would be out supporting this as much at this time as ever. Maybe these polls explain why he is not.

Also, note that Gallup is polling the same trend at Rasmussen and Gallup polls concur: If elections were held today Republicans would gain big victories in congress and presidency. and Gallup and Rasmussen both concur that Republicans are winning and especially among Independents by over 20 points according to both polls

And lastly, President Obama has his worst monthly approval ratings yet in October. Why? and this month appears to be panning out to be even worse. Not to fail to mention: Obama has the largest 2nd to 3rd quarter drop in approval ratings ever on the Gallup poll and other interesting polling stats.