Obama Poll Nobel Prize, 2012

10/15/2009, by Proloy Bhatta

HIGHLIGHTS

• 65% say Obama should not have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Overall Obama job approval rating: 49% approve, 45% disapprove.
• Only 43% say they would vote to reelect President Obama while 48% say they would vote for someone else.

Obama Poll: Nobel Prize, 2012

Fox News / Opinion Dynamics Corp. conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News from October 13 to October 14. The poll has a 3-point error margin.

Nobel Peace Prize

65% say Obama should not have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Here is the party break down.

Harry Truman ended WW2 but did not win the peace prize. Gandhi freed India from Britain but he did not win the peace prize. Even Reagan urged the Berlin Wall to come down, again no peace prize. But Obama, Gore and Jimmy Carter have each won?

Making speeches is not enough. Obama would have to do at least one of the following to be deserving of the prize: unify the two Koreas, end military rule in Burma, free Tibet, end military occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan, end the genocide in Darfur, among many other potential peaceful measures.

Giving Obama the prize now just a few months into Obama's presidency is irresponsible.

Approval Ratings

Overall Obama job approval rating: 49% approve, 45% disapprove.

This is the first time a pollster, excluding Rasmussen Reports, has ever measured Obama's approval rating to be below 50% but as per the polls by Marist, CBS, AP, and Ipsos, Obama is averaging 55.3% thus far this month.

Obama's rating has dropped 5% since Fox/OD last conducted a poll from 9/15-16/09 but his monthly average has gone up in October since September. It makes one wonder if the negative media attention Obama received due to winning the Peace Prize had any impact on the low approval ratings.

On the issues...

Congressional Approval Rating: 24% approve, 66% disapprove.

2012 Election

Only 43% say they would vote to reelect President Obama while 48% say they would vote for someone else.

Economy

How one feels about the economy has a lot to do with their political affiliation.

51% of Republicans say the economy is getting worse for them and their family while Democrats share the opposite view. 50% of Democrats say the economy is getting better.