On Thursday’s World News on ABC, substitute anchor David Muir brought up the Gallup Daily Tracking Poll numbers from Monday which at that time showed President Obama with a 47 percent approval rating and a 45 percent disapproval rating, the first time in recent memory that his approval number was higher than his disapproval. (Video below)
But, since Monday, the Gallup tracking poll numbers have turned further against Obama each day, with today’s poll showing that the President’s approval rating is back down to 41 percent with his disapproval up to 50 percent. As Muir referred to the Gallup survey as “one poll,” he did not inform viewers that this same poll had trended away from Obama since Monday.
However, in spite of showing the outdated more positive number for Obama, neither Muir nor correspondent Jake Tapper gave the poll a particularly positive spin for Obama as Tapper noted that the President would still have a difficult time getting reelected with an approval rating below 50 percent.
After Muir displayed the Monday survey result on screen, noting that the President’s approval rating was “inching up ever so slightly in one poll,” he went on to caution, “but we gather the White House isn’t celebrating this number.”
His poll ratings are irrelevant. He’ll win in 2012 and that is all that matters.