Interesting results from the Weekly Economist-YouGov Survey …
Headline: Obama gets a 47% approval rating (below 50%) and a 47% disapproval rating … dead heat.
But … looking at the “top & bottom boxes – strongly approve, strongly disapprove – he underwater by 16 percentage points.
Numbers get more interesting diving into the details:
By region … no surprise that Obama does best in the Northeast – about even on top & bottom boxes …. he does worst in the South – no surprise – and the West (a mix of West Coast liberals and and gun toting open-country folks).
Things get way more interesting by age and income …
First, by age … Obama is running evenly underwater at about 10 percentage points for all age groups except seniors … getting blown out by seniors – 40 points underwater.
The big surprise to me is that Obama’s current approval ratings are better among rich folks than among poor folks.
He gets an overall 45% approval rating from low incomes … 54% from high incomes.
Looking at top & bottom boxes, he’s running 19 points under water for folks earning less than $100,999 …. only running 6 points underwater with folks earning over $100,000/
Bottom line: Looks like some buyer’s remorse is setting in (again) … continues to hold the hearts of Northeastern liberals … losing the old folks … and high earners are appreciative of the monetary policy that keeps the stock market at record levels.
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