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President Obama's approval rating continues to slump, according to a new Marist University poll out on Monday. The poll showed that 44 percent of registered voters approve of the job Obama is doing as president, while 47 percent disapprove.

As he nears the one-year point of his presidency, Barack Obama gets middling marks from most Americans but credit for governing ...

President Obama's job-approval rating has slipped below 50% in the Gallup Poll for the first time in his presidency, pulled down by concerns about the economy, federal spending and health care legislation. In daily tracking from Tuesday through ...

The decline in Barack Obama's popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years ago.

The Secret Service has determined that a juvenile was behind the online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, an agency spokesman said Thursday.

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating an online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated.

The figure is a new low for the president in the Gallup Poll. He reached that point more quickly than most of his predecessors did. President Obama, who won the White House with an electoral college landslide and enjoyed soaring public approval for the job he was doing in the weeks following his inauguration, has fallen to a 50% job approval rating in the newest daily tracking of the Gallup Poll released just now.

Support for Obama's health-care effort declined over the past five weeks as Congress struggled to finalize legislation and attention focused on its high price, a new WSJ/NBC News poll finds.

Fewer Americans believe that President Barack Obama's stimulus package will restore the nation to economic health compared to two months ago but most still approve of the job the president is doing, according to a new poll published on Monday.

Barack Obama's performance in the first 100 days of his presidency draws strong public approval in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, but there is decidedly less support for his recent decision to release previously secret government memos on the interrogation of terrorism suspects, an initiative that reveals deep partisan fissures.

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