Sorry that I’m a bit late with this. I was going to post this at the start of the month but got sidetracked and forgot about it. None-the-less, here are US President Barack Obama’s approval ratings for May as measured by the Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll [1].
May saw a stop (for the most part) the closing of the gap between the approval and disapproval numbers, and on the whole Barack Obama enjoyed a pretty good month by the polls.
Data courtesy Rasmussen Reports, LLC [2]
The gap between the “strongly approve” and the “strongly disapprove” numbers, known as the “Rasmussen Approval Index” were fairly positive with only a couple low points.
Data courtesy Rasmussen Reports, LLC [2]
To put this in context, here are the graphs for all of 2009.
Data courtesy Rasmussen Reports, LLC [2]
Data courtesy Rasmussen Reports, LLC [2]
It’s quite clear that from those graphs that May was a better month that the preceding few, however I have to wonder about June as it hasn’t started brilliantly for Mr. Obama, with the Rasmussen Approval Index hitting zero on the 5th, however it has rebounded since then.
I should point out that the missing day in the graphs is the 11th of May. No polling was conducted on this day due to Mother’s Day.
Samuel