Poll: 56 percent of S.C. approves of Obama

[ccharles000]

A new Gallup poll shows South Carolinians giving President Barack Obama a 56.1 percent approval rate - middle of the pack among the 50 states.

At nearly 71 percent, Hawaii, Obama's birth state, gave him the highest approval ratings for overall job performance for January through December of 2009.

The lowest approval ratings came from the South and West, with residents of Wyoming giving the lowest approval rating, at nearly 42 percent.

Obama's overall approval average was 57.6

http://www.thestate.com/politics/story/1151227.html

[ProgressOnTheMove]

1. That's real good to hear another state moving to the Pres.. Obama column...

So if anyone works as a football announcer, a nurse on intercom or on the announcement system at a shopping mall remember to take you ipod/iphone loaded with randi rhodes, hartmann, Jeff Farias, Bob kIncaid, Amy goodman and let's get ou word out to the masses as far and as wide as we can.

[tritsofme]

2. Should be clear, this number is the average for all of 2009, not today.

The way the story is worded is kind of confusing.

[FrenchieCat]

3. Thanks for clearing that up......

we wouldn't want to misconstrue anything....
especially positive stuff.
Got to keep it real or worse than.

Happy "V" day! :hi:

[BunkerHill24]

4. Sure thing.....

Bill Clinton said: "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88.


So the polls are right!

[monmouth]

5. Read too fast, thought that was the Supreme Court....Yikes, slow down

ole girl...LOL.

[MidwestTransplant]

7. I wouldn't have thought that was South Carolina on first read either. Joe Wilson's state and all..

[KingFlorez]

6. He's doing something right if South Carolina approves

[liberalpragmatist]

8. Meaningless poll number - an average of the entire year

So any numbers are skewed by his "honeymoon" period.

[Ter]

9. Unfortunately, 56% of SC will likely vote against him in 2012

:(

[GoCubsGo]

10. It depends on who the GOP runs.

I am not so sure many of the evangelicals here would vote for Romney, if he gets the nomination. They would vote third party or not at all. There are also still a fair number of relatively sane republicans around, mostly northern retiree transplants. Very few of them like Palin. If she gets the nomination, they will not vote for her, either. A lot of them also dislike Hucksterbee enough to stay home, too.

[Arkana]

11. :psyduck:

There are some odd fucking approval ratings among the states.

Someone posted a Gallup poll a while ago showing him with a strong approval rating in ARKANSAS.

Think about that.

ARKANSAS.

[ObamaKerryDem]

12. Wow. Pretty strong numbers for a state like S. Carolina! Could it be a swing state in '12? n/t

[ohiodemocratic]

13. That's false

Though it's not the OP's fault, as the newspaper made the mistake.

As the person who wrote commment #8 observed, that number is an average of Obama's approval from January through December, 2009 in South Carolina.

we are in February, 2010. We would only know what his approval is in South Carolina if we looked at polls conducted recently.