
| Poll | Date | Sample | Approve | Disapprove | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 12/6 - 12/30 | -- | 43.6 | 52.0 | -8.4 |
| GallupGallup | 12/28 - 12/30 | 1500 A | 44 | 52 | -8 |
| Rasmussen ReportsRasmussen | 12/28 - 12/30 | 1500 LV | 46 | 52 | -6 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 12/26 - 12/30 | 2005 A | 41 | 51 | -10 |
| The Economist/YouGovEconomist | 12/18 - 12/22 | 1214 RV | 42 | 56 | -14 |
| CNN/Opinion ResearchCNN/ORC | 12/17 - 12/21 | 1018 A | 47 | 52 | -5 |
| QuinnipiacQuinnipiac | 12/16 - 12/20 | 1140 RV | 44 | 52 | -8 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 12/16 - 12/17 | 1013 RV | 43 | 51 | -8 |
| MonmouthMonmouth | 12/10 - 12/13 | 856 RV | 40 | 54 | -14 |
| Pew ResearchPew | 12/8 - 12/13 | 1500 A | 46 | 49 | -3 |
| NBC/WSJNBC/WSJ | 12/6 - 12/9 | 1000 A | 43 | 51 | -8 |
| Poll | Date | Sample | Approve | Disapprove | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RCP Average | 12/6 - 12/30 | -- | 43.6 | 52.0 | -8.4 |
| GallupGallup | 12/28 - 12/30 | 1500 A | 44 | 52 | -8 |
| Rasmussen ReportsRasmussen | 12/28 - 12/30 | 1500 LV | 46 | 52 | -6 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 12/26 - 12/30 | 2005 A | 41 | 51 | -10 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 12/19 - 12/23 | 1593 A | 42 | 52 | -10 |
| The Economist/YouGovEconomist | 12/18 - 12/22 | 1214 RV | 42 | 56 | -14 |
| CNN/Opinion ResearchCNN/ORC | 12/17 - 12/21 | 1018 A | 47 | 52 | -5 |
| QuinnipiacQuinnipiac | 12/16 - 12/20 | 1140 RV | 44 | 52 | -8 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 12/16 - 12/17 | 1013 RV | 43 | 51 | -8 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 12/12 - 12/16 | 1978 A | 42 | 53 | -11 |
| MonmouthMonmouth | 12/10 - 12/13 | 856 RV | 40 | 54 | -14 |
| Pew ResearchPew | 12/8 - 12/13 | 1500 A | 46 | 49 | -3 |
| NBC/WSJNBC/WSJ | 12/6 - 12/9 | 1000 A | 43 | 51 | -8 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 12/5 - 12/9 | 1416 A | 41 | 53 | -12 |
| The Economist/YouGovEconomist | 12/4 - 12/8 | 1202 RV | 42 | 56 | -14 |
| CBS/NY TimesCBS/NYT | 12/4 - 12/8 | 1275 A | 44 | 48 | -4 |
| USA Today/SuffolkUSA Today | 12/2 - 12/6 | 1000 LV | 44 | 50 | -6 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 11/28 - 12/2 | 1072 A | 44 | 50 | -6 |
| CNN/Opinion ResearchCNN/ORC | 11/27 - 12/1 | 1020 A | 45 | 53 | -8 |
| QuinnipiacQuinnipiac | 11/23 - 11/30 | 1453 RV | 44 | 51 | -7 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 11/21 - 11/25 | 964 A | 42 | 53 | -11 |
| CBS NewsCBS News | 11/19 - 11/22 | 1205 A | 42 | 47 | -5 |
| The Economist/YouGovEconomist | 11/19 - 11/23 | 1217 RV | 44 | 53 | -9 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 11/16 - 11/19 | 1016 RV | 40 | 54 | -14 |
| ABC News/Wash PostABC/WP | 11/16 - 11/19 | 831 RV | 44 | 53 | -9 |
| PPP (D)PPP (D) | 11/16 - 11/17 | 1360 RV | 43 | 52 | -9 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 11/14 - 11/18 | 3418 A | 42 | 51 | -9 |
| BloombergBloomberg | 11/15 - 11/16 | 1002 A | 44 | 51 | -7 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 11/7 - 11/11 | 1586 A | 43 | 50 | -7 |
| CBS News/NYTCBS/NYT | 11/6 - 11/10 | 1495 A | 45 | 48 | -3 |
| The Economist/YouGovEconomist | 11/5 - 11/9 | 1226 RV | 45 | 53 | -8 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 11/1 - 11/3 | 1230 RV | 45 | 50 | -5 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 10/31 - 11/4 | 1636 A | 42 | 52 | -10 |
| McClatchy/MaristMcClatchy | 10/29 - 11/4 | 1080 RV | 48 | 48 | Tie |
| QuinnipiacQuinnipiac | 10/29 - 11/2 | 1144 RV | 42 | 54 | -12 |
| NBC News/Wall St. JrnlNBC/WSJ | 10/25 - 10/29 | 1000 A | 45 | 49 | -4 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 10/24 - 10/28 | 1678 A | 43 | 50 | -7 |
| The Economist/YouGovEconomist | 10/23 - 10/27 | 1234 RV | 42 | 56 | -14 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 10/17 - 10/21 | 2214 A | 42 | 51 | -9 |
| Associated Press-GfKAP-GfK | 10/15 - 10/19 | 1027 A | 46 | 54 | -8 |
| NBC News/Wall St. JrnlNBC/WSJ | 10/15 - 10/18 | 1000 A | 46 | 49 | -3 |
| MonmouthMonmouth | 10/15 - 10/18 | 836 RV | 44 | 48 | -4 |
| ABC News/Wash PostABC/WP | 10/15 - 10/18 | 809 RV | 48 | 48 | Tie |
| CNN/Opinion ResearchCNN/ORC | 10/14 - 10/17 | 1028 A | 46 | 51 | -5 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 10/10 - 10/12 | 1004 RV | 42 | 53 | -11 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 10/10 - 10/14 | 1348 A | 45 | 49 | -4 |
| The Economist/YouGovEconomist | 10/8 - 10/12 | 1279 RV | 44 | 53 | -9 |
| CBS NewsCBS News | 10/4 - 10/8 | 1251 A | 45 | 46 | -1 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 10/3 - 10/7 | 1630 A | 40 | 53 | -13 |
| PPP (D)PPP (D) | 10/1 - 10/4 | 1338 RV | 45 | 50 | -5 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 9/26 - 9/30 | 1304 A | 43 | 49 | -6 |
| The Economist/YouGovEconomist | 9/25 - 9/29 | 1364 RV | 45 | 52 | -7 |
| USA Today/SuffolkUSA Today | 9/24 - 9/28 | 1000 LV | 47 | 46 | +1 |
| Pew ResearchPew | 9/22 - 9/27 | 1502 A | 46 | 48 | -2 |
| NBC News/Wall St. JrnlNBC/WSJ | 9/20 - 9/24 | 1000 A | 47 | 47 | Tie |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 9/20 - 9/22 | 1013 RV | 44 | 50 | -6 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 9/19 - 9/23 | 1582 A | 43 | 51 | -8 |
| BloombergBloomberg | 9/18 - 9/21 | 1001 A | 46 | 47 | -1 |
| QuinnipiacQuinnipiac | 9/17 - 9/21 | 1574 RV | 44 | 53 | -9 |
| CNN/Opinion ResearchCNN/ORC | 9/17 - 9/19 | 1006 A | 44 | 50 | -6 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 9/12 - 9/16 | 1570 A | 44 | 49 | -5 |
| The Economist/YouGovEconomist | 9/11 - 9/15 | 1345 RV | 47 | 50 | -3 |
| National JournalNational Journal | 9/10 - 9/15 | 1000 A | 44 | 47 | -3 |
| ABC News/Wash PostABC/WP | 9/7 - 9/10 | 821 RV | 47 | 49 | -2 |
| CNN/Opinion ResearchCNN/ORC | 9/4 - 9/8 | 1012 A | 45 | 52 | -7 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 9/5 - 9/9 | 1457 A | 47 | 48 | -1 |
| MonmouthMonmouth | 8/31 - 9/3 | 847 RV | 45 | 51 | -6 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 8/29 - 9/2 | 1598 A | 47 | 47 | Tie |
| The Economist/YouGovEconomist | 8/28 - 9/1 | 1343 RV | 44 | 53 | -9 |
| PPP (D)PPP (D) | 8/28 - 8/30 | 1254 RV | 45 | 49 | -4 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 8/22 - 8/26 | 1152 A | 44 | 49 | -5 |
| QuinnipiacQuinnipiac | 8/20 - 8/25 | 1563 RV | 45 | 53 | -8 |
| Reuters/IpsosReuters/Ipsos | 8/15 - 8/19 | 851 A | 43 | 52 | -9 |
| The Economist/YouGovEconomist | 8/15 - 8/17 | 1340 RV | 43 | 53 | -10 |
| CNN/Opinion ResearchCNN/ORC | 8/13 - 8/16 | 1001 A | 47 | 51 | -4 |
| FOX NewsFOX News | 8/11 - 8/13 | 1008 RV | 42 | 51 | -9 |
- Revenge Replaces Hope and Change - Dan Spencer, Red State
- Obama's Team Says the GOP Earned Trump - Edward-Isaac Dovere, Politico
- Enough With Bashing the GOP! - Meredith Warren, Boston Globe
- President Obama's Fire Sale Foreign Policy - Claudia Rosett, PJ Media
- Bush: Blames Obama for the Rise of Donald Trump - Jake Miller, CBS News
- Barack Obama Blames the Messenger - David Graham, The Atlantic
- Hillary vs. Barack, Round LXXXVIII - Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
- President Obama's Long View of Politics - Andrew Prokop, Vox
- Obama Upbeat About 2016 - Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
- What Immigration Activists Want from Hillary Clinton - Dara Lind, Vox
- On His Watch - Abe Greenwald, Commentary
- Surveying the Damage Obama Wrought - Max Boot, Commentary
- How The Media Covers Up for President Obama - Sean Davis, The Federalist
- Lying About Gitmo - Stephen Hayes, The Weekly Standard
- A Rationalist President in the Age of Anxiety - David Ignatius, Washington Post
- Americans 'Scared to Death' Because of Government Failures - Jonah Goldberg, NRO
- Deadly Dereliction of Duty at the Top - Wesley Pruden, Washington Times
- The Last Obama Budget - Wall Street Journal
- ISIS, Obama the Tortoise, & A Harebrained GOP - David Ignatius, Washington Post
- Why Is Obama Obsessed with Springing Terrorists from Gitmo? - New York Post
- Climate Deal Is Obama's Biggest Accomplishment - Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine
- One Year After Rapprochement, Cuba Is No Freer - Charles Lane, Washington Post
- Lyndon B. Obama - Richard Benedetto, RealClearPolitics
- Accelerating the Fight Against ISIS - Paul Starr, The American Prospect
- Rubio: Ridicules 'Ridiculous' Obama Climate Deal - Jonathan Swan, The Hill
- Obama's Guantanamo Misdirection - Hayes & Joscelyn, Weekly Standard
- 'Playing into the Hands of ISIS'? - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review Online
- President Obama's Awful Year - Jim Geraghty, National Review
- President Trump (or Cruz) Will Have a Pen and a Phone, Too - Kevin Williamson, NRO
- Obama: Climate Change Fraudster - Ben Stein, The American Spectator
- New K-12 Education Law Leaves Schools Behind - Chad Aldeman, Washington Post
- How Marco Rubio Beat Obama - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
- How to Beat the Islamic State - Maajid Nawaz, Wall Street Journal
- Forming a Real Partnership Against ISIS - Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker
- Obama Is the Last Hope for Latin America's Lefty Thugs - Benny Avni, NY Post
- Paper Tiger Obama - New York Daily News
- The President's Speech - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily
- Obama Has Right Policies, Wrong Tone on Terror - Ivo Daalder, RCP Changing Lanes
- Bizarre Responses to a Plea for Reason - New York Times
- Obama Has Checked out as Commander in Chief - Scott Brown, FOX News
- To Change And Change Not - Noemie Emery, Washington Examiner
- The President As Pangloss - Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
- A Nation in Search of Leadership, Not Mush - Wesley Pruden, Washington Times
- What President Obama Should Say About Terror - Juliette Kayyem, CNN
- A Shrunken President Detached From Reality - Michael Goodwin, NY Post
- No, Mr. President, the NRA Is Not to Blame - Chris Cox, USA Today
- Reality Versus Obama's Climate of Fear - Hugo Gurdon, Washington Examiner
- Obama's National-Security Legacy: Social Justice Over All Else - David French, NRO
- The Closing of Barack Obama's Mind - Peter Wehner, Commentary
- On ISIS, Barack Obama Is Baghdad Bob - Sean Davis, The Federalist
- Obamanet Goes to Court - L. Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal
- Obama's Last State of Union Speech Set for Jan. 12 - Alexis Simendinger
- Obama Casts Paris Talks as World's Last Best Chance - Edward-Isaac Dovere, Politico
- Cashing in on the Final Frontier - Glenn Harlan Reynolds, USA Today
- What Obama Will Leave Behind - George Condon, National Journal
- President Obama's Hypocrisy on Syria - Peter Wehner, New York Times
- Obama's Increasingly Surreal War on ISIS - Deroy Murdock, National Review
- Paris Attacks Changed Everything, But Not for Obama - Konrad Yakabuski, Globe & Mail
- A Tale of Two Presidents - Kenneth Weinstein, RealClearPolitics
- Getting the Politics of Fear Right - Jeff Greenfield, Politico
- Why Do Dems Cling to Denial About Islam & Terrorism? - Jonah Goldberg, Natl Review
- Obama Seeks Tricky Balance in ISIS Fight - Jim Acosta, CNN
- If We Don't Fight ISIS There, We'll Soon Be Fighting Here - Linda Chavez, New York Post
- How to Win Friends and Influence Refugee Policy - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
- Why Won't Obama Open His Doors to Ex-Felons? - Chandra Bozelko, DC Examiner
- Nothing 'Compassionate' About Obama's Refugee Policy - David French, Natl Review
- If We Want to Destroy ISIS, We Can Destroy ISIS - Larry Kudlow, Investor's Business Daily
- Desperate About Refugees, Obama Offers Statistics & Lies - Fred Fleitz, FOX News
- The Crisis of World Order - Robert Kagan, Wall Street Journal
- Obama's Strategic Bumbling Is Theater of the Absurd - Jonah Goldberg, NRO
- President Obama Gets Really Angry - at Americans - Michael Barone, Examiner
- Hillary Clinton Faces Foreign-Policy Challenges - Peter Nicholas & Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal
- A Syrian Refugee Lesson for Liberals - Wall Street Journal
- Everybody but Obama Knows He Needs a New ISIS Strategy - Washington Examiner
- In Search of a New Free-World Leader - William Murchison, The American Spectator
- How Obama Became Worse Than Bush - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
- Paris and the Press Put Obama on the Defensive - George Condon, National Journal
- ISIS Will Strike America - Michael Morell, Time
- How to Beat ISIS: The President Is Partly Right - Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
- Lions Led by Donkeys - David French, National Review Online
- The ISIS Trap That the United States Must Avoid - Stephen Holmes, American Prospect
- Americans Won't Think of Paris at the Polls - Jonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg
- Why Obama Won't Denounce 'Radical Islam' - Andrew Prokop, Vox
- Obama Takes the War to His Hawkish Critics - Eli Lake, Bloomberg
- Why Another 'War on Terror' Won't Work - Mary Kaldor, The Nation
- A Horrible Day for American Leadership, GOP & Obama Alike - Ron Fournier, NJ
- Time to Level Raqqa: Kill Ten Thousand, Save a Million - Ralph Peters, New York Post
- ISIS Can Only Succeed If We Overreact -- So We Shouldn't - Ezra Klein, Vox
- Mr. President, Escalate This War - Richard Clarke, New York Daily News
- The Poverty of American Strategy - Kenneth Allard, RealClearDefense
- In Obama Era, GOP Bolsters Grip in the States - Stolberg, Shear & Blinder, NY Times
- Obama's Inconsistency on Closing Guantanamo - Charles Lane, Washington Post
- Another Delay for Anxious Immigrant Families - Los Angeles Times
- Obama's Keystone Pipeline Decision Can Be Reversed - Noah Feldman, Bloomberg
- The Political Charade of Obama's Keystone Rejection - Matt Lewis, The Week
- How the U.S. and Israel Can Move Forward - New York Times
- A Birth-Control Morality Play Comes to Supreme Court - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
- World Could Pay High Price for Obama's Syria & Iraq Policies - Fred Fleitz, FOX News
- The Dangers of Obama's Incrementalism - Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
- Obama and the GOP's Red Sea - John Cassidy, The New Yorker