Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama's job performance. Fifty-one percent (51%) now disapprove.

Today’s figures include 24% who Strongly Approve of the way Obama is performing as president and 39% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15 (see trends).

Results are updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update).

Scott Rasmussen’s weekly newspaper column shows how “the political ground is shifting under the president’s feet.”   He adds, “If you dig just a bit beneath the surface, it becomes clear that the controversies dogging the White House have had an impact.”

There has been a 10-point swing in the GOP’s favor on the issue of which party is trusted most on issues concerning government ethics and corruption.

On this weekend’s edition of What America Thinks, the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato discussed how the recent controversies will impact the president’s agenda and the 2014 mid-term elections    The weekly television show hosted by Scott Rasmussen airs on 64 stations nationwide. Find a station near you.

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Forty-two percent (42%) of voters now favor the government's use of unmanned drones to kill U.S. citizens overseas who pose a terrorist threat.   Thirty-six percent (36%) favor using the drones against terrorist threats in the United States. 

Democrats have a two-point advantage on the Generic Congressional Ballot.

Just 43% of voters now want their governor to assist with the implementation of the president’s health care law.  Forty-five percent (45%) want their governor to oppose implementation.

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.

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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 +/- 3 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.