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Poll:
President Obama job approval
rating down
By Kevin Cirilli
5/30/13
President
Barack Obama’s approval
rating took a hit amid three controversies surrounding his
administration,
including an investigation into the Internal Revenue Service unfairly
targeting
conservative groups seeking nonprofit status, a new poll Thursday
showed.
Obama
has a 45 percent approval
rating and a 49 percent disapproval rating — compared with a 48 percent
approval, 45 percent disapproval rating from May 1, according to the
Quinnipiac
University poll.
In
particular, Obama plunged among
independent voters. Only 37 percent of independents approve of him
while 57
percent disapprove, Quinnipiac found. At the start of the month, 42
percent of
independents approved and 48 percent disapproved. Nine percent of
GOPers
approve of Obama, 86 percent disapprove. Among Democrats, 87 percent
approve, 8
percent disapprove.
Quinnipiac’s
results stand in
contrast to Gallup, which has found that Obama’s approval rating has
gone
largely unchanged since the IRS scandal and other controversies.
According to
its Gallup Daily Tracking poll, the president has a 50 percent approval
and 43
percent disapproval...
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