What will President Obama's approval rating be on Thursday June 18th, 2009?
Settled as 61%
Sorry for the error, as of the update on Thursday it was 61, the 58% number was for Friday.
Background:
Background: "What will President Obama's approval rating be after it is updated 1pm (Eastern) Thursday June 18, 2009?"
Settlement details:As reported by Gallup at http://www.gallup.com
What will President Obama's approval rating be on Thursday June 18th, 2009?
56% or below
57%
58%
59%
60%
61%
62%
63%
64%
65% or above
Forecast history %
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| 56% or below | |
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| 57% | |
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| 58% | |
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| 59% | |
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| 60% | |
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| 61% | |
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| 62% | |
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| 63% | |
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| 64% | |
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Settled as 61% on Sat 20th Jun 5:30am PST
Suspend date: Thu 18th Jun 4:59am PST
Settlement date: Sat 20th Jun 5:30am PST
Prediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Thu 18th Jun 4:59am PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
Initial likelihoods:
56% or below: 1%, 57%: 3%, 58%: 10%, 59%: 20%, 60%: 30%, 61%: 20%, 62%: 8%, 63%: 5%, 64%: 2%, 65% or above: 1%
Action history:
Suspended Thu 18th Jun 4:59am PST : Suspend date reached
Suspended Thu 18th Jun 4:59am PST : Suspend date reached
Settled as '61%' Sat 20th Jun 5:30am PST by
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:
Sorry for the error, as of the update on Thursday it was 61, the 58% number was for Friday.
Suspend date: Thu 18th Jun 4:59am PST
Settlement date: Sat 20th Jun 5:30am PST
Prediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Thu 18th Jun 4:59am PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled details 
Predictions (154)
22 weeks ago
lcsnor
predicted
61% (H$100 at 35%)
22 weeks ago
kenson2510
predicted
62% (H$20 at 21%)
Comments (6)
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Comments: 6
madbuns
: While becoming the master of the banks, auto companies and health care, Obama's approval rating (according to Gallup) has slipped to 58%; therefore, the question may be settled as '58%.'
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maartenkaas
predicted 61% (H$20 at 34%)
cherryice1988
predicted 56% or below (H$20 at 0%)
While opinion polls indicate a growing concern among Americans that their new president has no coherent plan to reverse the nation's economic woes, and lacks the principled conviction to boldly address crises in Iran, North Korea and the Middle East, still a majority say they love "the idea of an Obama presidency."
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows that 56 percent still of approve of President Barack Obama "as a theoretical concept," even as support for his handling of the economy and foreign policy has slipped in recent days.
Nearly 70 percent expressed concerns that the government would "completely take over the economy, reducing the people to serfdom in a land where every coin bears the image of the feudal lord."
Yet even the naysayers admit that their concerns about the collapse of capitalism and the subversion of our Constitutional Republic are "mere quibbles" compared with the thrill of having Obama in the White House.
In the words of one survey respondent, "it's just so cool to have a president who's just so cool."
"His wife grows organic veggies while wearing designer clothes, and he jets around the globe like Bono and kills White House flies with his lightning-fast reflexes," the unnamed poll respondent said.
"Obama is really a projection of who we all want to be. Whatever you think of his policies -- and I'll grant you, he's got some doozies -- you can't help but get caught up in the aura, the buzz, the zeitgeist. It makes me proud to be an American, or at least jazzed to be one of Obama's constituents."
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/scottott/Poll-Most-still-favor-the-idea-of-an-Obama-presidency.html
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