Hillary Clinton was smart to praise President Obama at every opportunity at yesterday’s debate in South Carolina. The President’s approval are on the upswing. Both Gallup and Rasmussen daily tracking have him at 49 and now the Washington Post / ABC News poll has him at 51%.
“A bare 51 percent majority of the public approves of President Obama's job performance in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, while 45 percent disapproves. Although tepidly positive, those are Obama's best numbers since May 2013 in Post-ABC surveys.
Obama's rebound is more striking compared with one year ago. Last October, just before Democrats' major losses in the 2014 midterm elections, his approval ratings ranged between 40 percent and 43 percent — the lowest of his presidency. "Strong" disapproval of Obama outpaced strong approval by a roughly 2-to-1 margin.
Today, not only is his approval rating up 11 points from its lowest point, but strong opinions of him are more closely divided; 35 percent strongly disapprove, while 28 percent strongly approve.”
Good for Hillary to point out Bernie’s efforts back in 2011 to look for primary challenger to President Obama.
It will be hard for Bernie to appeal to African-Americans with his constant dissing of President Obama by talk of revolution.
