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Tabulated Obama Approval Ratings by State

11/16/2009, by Proloy Bhatta

HIGHLIGHTS

Obama's approval ratings per state since September.
Obama's favorable ratings exceed 60% in 8 states -- more than half of the states tabulated.
Obama's approval rating is highest in New York and California.

Here is a tabulated list of the latest approval ratings in each of the following states. Polls are only included if they were conducted no earlier than September.

State	Date	Approve	Disapprove
New-York	10/14-19/09	62	32
California	10/27-11/3/09	60	34
Maryland	10/30-11/2/09	60	33
Maine	9/30-10/7/09	58	38
Connecticut	9/10-14/09	57	36
New-Hampshire	9/25-10/2/09	55	40
New-Mexico	9/8-10/09	53	37
North-Carolina	10/26-29/09	53	44
Pennsylvania	10/7-12/09	50	37
Arizona	9/24-27/09	49	44
Colorado	9/16-17/09	48	47
Florida	10/12-18/09	48	46
Virginia	10/18-19/09	47	43
Tennessee	9/28-10/10/09	46	48
Ohio	11/5-9/09	45	50
Arkansas	10/14-28/09	42	47
Georgia	9/18-20/09	35	58

And now onto the favorable ratings.

State	Date	Favorable	Unfavorable
Connecticut	9/8-10/09	67	25
Maine	10/26-28/09	67	25
California	10/27-11/3/09	65	33
New-York	10/14-18/09	65	31
Delaware	10/12-14/09	64	32
Massachusetts	9/12-15/09	64	30
New-Jersey	10/26-28/09	63	33
Maryland	9/8-17/09	60	27
New-Hampshire	9/25-10/2/09	56	35
Iowa	10/12-14/09	55	36
Virginia	10/26-28/09	49	45
Nevada	10/6-8/09	46	43
Pennsylvania	10/20-25/09	45	39
Kentucky	8/31-9/2/09	34	63

Obama tends to have favorable ratings that exceed 60% in most of the states listed here. Favorable ratings tend to exceed approval ratings because an adult can have a favorable opinion of a candidate but still disapprove of their job performance.

But because they are not the same question, the reverse is also true. For example, the favorable rating for Obama in Pennsylvania is 45% but his approval rating is 50%.

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