*As we approach the end of President Obama’s final term, CNN reports that his approval rating currently stands at 55%, the highest mark of his second term. The new sites reports that:
The new poll continues a streak in which Obama’s approval rating has been at 50% or higher in CNN/ORC polls since February, a seven month run that is his longest since 2009. And taken together, Obama’s approval ratings in 2016 average 51% so far in CNN/ORC polls, his best mark since that first year in office.
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To gather approval ratings, a total of 1,501 adults were interviewed by telephone (or cell) nationwide by live interviewers. According to the sample, 27% described themselves as Democrats, 24% described themselves as Republicans, and 49% described themselves as independents or members of another party. Among Black voters, 86% approve in the CNN/ORC poll.
A year ago at this time, Obama’s approval rating was about 10 points lower than it is today. CNN notes that “the improvement in his numbers has come across age groups and gender lines, and from all geographic regions”
Obama recently fought back at critics when he said his team has created a “more durable, growing economy” with “15 million new private-sector jobs since early 2010” in an essay in The Economist.
“Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction,” President Obama said in his State of the Union address earlier this year. Money.cnn notes that his critics counter that this is the slowest recovery since WW II.
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