Via CNN: Obama approval hits new high
President Barack Obama’s approval rating stands at 55% in a new CNN/ORC poll, the highest mark of his second term, and matching his best at any time since his first year in office.
The new rating outpaces his previous second-term high — reached just after a Democratic convention that extolled the successes of his presidency — by one point, and hits a level he’s reached just twice since the end of his first year in office: In January 2013 just before his second inauguration and in January 2011.
This is interesting because the presidential approval rating is, among other things, a proxy for how citizens think things are going at a given point in time. We also know that views of the incumbent influence the vote for candidates of the president’s party.
