Hillarysworld

I find this very significant because this is a CNN poll, not a general poll like Gallup or Rasmussen or a right-leaning poll like FoxNews. People who watch CNN are supposed to like Obama, right? Uh, not so much these days.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/04/obama.approval.poll/index.html?eref=rss_politics&iref=polticker

Support for President Obama has dropped below 50 percent for the first time in a CNN poll despite high marks for his recently announced Afghanistan policy.

Forty-eight percent of Americans questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. national survey released Friday said they approve of the job Obama is doing as president -- a drop of 7 percentage points from a survey last month.
Fifty percent said they do not approve. The difference of 2 percentage points between approval and disapproval falls within the range of the poll's sampling error.

Several polls in late November indicated Obama's approval rating had dipped this low even before this week's speech. Weekly averages of national polls from mid-October through mid-November showed Obama's approval consistently at 52 percent or 53 percent.

"But in the week before Thanksgiving, his average approval rating slipped to 49 percent -- solid evidence that something was going on before Obama announced his Afghan policy," Holland said.

Obama's rating dropped 18 percentage points among noncollege whites, but 4 points among whites who attended college, a good indication the economy and other domestic issues may be hurting the president.
Obama also dropped 15 percentage points among whites under 50, but 4 points among older whites.

"That may partly be due to Afghanistan," Holland said, "but the young are also the group hardest hit when unemployment rises. The same is true for white women, whose approval of Obama dropped 12 points."