Gallup has just released Barack Obama’s job approval rating for the first half of 2012, broken down by state, and the news is not encouraging for the president.
Obama’s approval rating is below 50 percent in 37 states, ranging from a 26 percent rating in Utah to a 49 percent rating in Michigan. Obama is at 50 percent or higher in just 13 states, from a 50 percent rating in Minnesota to a 63 percent rating in Hawaii. The president is most popular in Washington DC, where his job approval rating is an astonishing 83 percent.
After DC, Obama’s top ten states are: Hawaii 63 percent; Rhode Island 58 percent; Vermont 56 percent; New York 55 percent; Massachusetts 55 percent; Maryland 55 percent; New Jersey 53 percent; Connecticut 53 percent; California 52 percent; and Washington 51 percent.
Finishing up the 13 states in which Obama has his head above the water: Illinois 51 percent; Delaware 51 percent; and Minnesota 50 percent.
The ten states where Obama’s approval is lowest are: Utah 26 percent; Wyoming 28 percent; Alaska 29 percent; West Virginia 31 percent; Idaho 31 percent; Montana 34 percent; Oklahoma 35 percent; Alabama 36 percent; Tennessee 37 percent; and North Dakota 37 percent.
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During these drastic economic times, we need bi-partisanship in the white house, which is essential to the success of an African-American president. Obama must govern more from the center to show that his policies can work for both, democrats and republicans. If he does not make this change immediately, he will lose the 2012 election.
All those states with the high approvals are all states that are broke and in tremendous debt! These states also have the highest jobless rates and horrible housing markets in the urban areas. So what does that tell you that the voters in these states support a very liberal President who has all but made them into welfare states. Too bad I have to live in one of these states where my hard-earned middle income is taxed to death to pay for these govt-dependent people!