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CNN/ORC Poll: Obama's 57 Percent Approval Rating Highest Since 2009

CNN/ORC Poll: Obama's 57 Percent Approval Rating Highest Since 2009

(AP)

By    |   Wednesday, 23 November 2016 08:27 AM EST

President Barack Obama's approval and favorability ratings are at their highest since 2009, but the Democratic Party is also at a dubious 24-year high — for unfavorability, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday.

The results:

  • Obama's approval rating: 57 percent.
  • Obama's favorability rating: 59 percent.
  • Democratic Party unfavorability rating: 54 percent.
  • Republican Party unfavorability rating: 52 percent.

For Republicans, the 41 percent favorability rating represents a 5-point upswing while the Democrats haven't been viewed this unfavorably since 1992, according to the survey.

Further, even Democrats can't stand their own party; favorability within the party has dropped to 81 percent, its lowest mark in a decade.

Obama's approval rating is on par with Ronald Reagan in 1988 and close to Bill Clinton's in 2000, according to the poll. George W. Bush's approval rating was at 24 percent as he approached his exit in November of 2008.

The CNN/ORC poll was conducted from Nov. 17-20 among a random national sample of 1,003 adults. Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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President Barack Obama's approval and favorability ratings are at their highest since 2009, but the Democratic Party is also at a dubious 24-year high - for unfavorability, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday.
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