Poll: Obama's approval rating highest in seven years

President Barack Obama’s approval rating is at a seven-year high,
according to a  CNN/ORC national poll released Wednesday.

Obama enjoys a post-election approval rating of 57 percent, his highest mark since
September 2009, when his approval rating sat at 58 percent.

The president also has a favorability rating of almost 60 percent, his highest since
October 2009.

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 Obama has a net favorability of +21 percent (59 percent favorable,  38 percent
unfavorable), far outpacing Americans’ views of the Democratic (-15 percent)
and Republican (-11 percent) parties. Fifty-four percent have an unfavorable view
of the Democratic Party, 9 percentage points higher than where it stood around this
time last month.

The 54 percent mark is the highest unfavorable opinion of the
party since 1992.
 Meantime, Americans view the Republican Party 5 points more favorably than they
did  in October. Its 41 percent favorability is its highest point since August 2015.
As for Obama’s incoming successor, President-elect Donald Trump, 54 percent of
respondentsstill don’t believe he cares about people like them and are split 49 percent
to 49 percent  regarding whether they believe he can bring about the change America
needs.

Fifty-seven percent said he isn’t honest and trustworthy, 66 percent don’t see him as an
admirable person and 54 percent think he will divide the country instead of unite it. Half
of the respondents do believe, however, that Trump can manage the government effectively,
while 49 percent believe he can’t.

The survey of 1,0003 American adults was conducted Nov. 17-20 via landlines and
cellphones. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Credit: Politico