Obama's approval rating grows following memorable week

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Washington (CNN)Could Barack Obama's great week mark a turning point in his poll numbers?

After months of stagnant approval ratings, a new CNN/ORC poll finds that for the first time in more than two years, 50% of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling the presidency. And his overall ratings are bolstered by increasingly positive reviews of his treatment of race relations and the economy.

The new poll follows a week in which two Supreme Court cases boosted the president's legacy by upholding the government subsidies at the heart of Obama's health care law, the Affordable Care Act, and affirming same-sex couples' right to marry. All this while Obama took several opportunities to directly address the nation's racial tensions, closing out the week by singing "Amazing Grace" on national television.

The new poll shows Obama's approval rating up five points since a May survey, when just 45% approved of the job he was doing as president and 52% disapproved. The poll marks the first time his approval rating has been at 50% or higher since May, 2013, and only the second time in that stretch that his disapproval rating has fallen below 50%. It currently stands at 47%.


http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/30/politics/obama-approval-rating-cnn-poll/index.html

[Iliyah]

1. K & R

[NCTraveler]

2. K&R.

[mcar]

3. K&R

Not surprising, despite what the single issue folks might think.

[ruffburr]

4. I'm very pleased-

With Obamas achievements on health-care and marriage, But let us not forget that he is selling out the country with the trade deals, If you believe that that is no big problem just wait till your job goes overseas, and you don't know what your eating or where it came from,and the corporations decide when and where to frack and pollute and you have no say what so ever. So approve away.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. My print publishing business died at the hands of the internet but I don't blame President Obama./nt

[ruffburr]

6. I'm sorry -

But what does that have to do with Trade deals that destroy the middle class?

[Fred Sanders]

7. Obama's Approval Rating SOARS, as Americans Approve of Obama, The Man.

Finally have also woken up to the insanity pouring out of the floundering hatemongers that would dare to fill his size 13 shoes.

Folks all over have not made the wanting of perfection to make an enemy of the good. The very, very, good.

Obama will endorse Clinton, it was always the plan, and it was a good one.

Change takes time...let it be Sanders or Warren in 2024 to tie up any loose Change ends.

[Spazito]

8. I am not surprised, he's no 'lame duck' President...

by any means.

I think the President still has a few goodies left in his goody bag before he is done.

[Iliyah]

9. Yes he does.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. CNN always manages to give a Dem +/- 50%.