New Poll Is A Disaster For Obama

President Barack Obama has seen support for his foreign policy plummet to an all-time low, according to a new Wall Street Journal-NBC poll released Wednesday.

According to the poll, just 37% of respondents said they approved of Obama's handling of foreign-policy issues, an all-time low. Meanwhile, 57% said they disapproved, an all-time high.

And the foreign-policy approval rating for Obama might be artificially high. The poll was conducted before the crisis in Iraq — a situation for which Obama has been roundly criticized — bubbled up and grabbed international attention.

Obama's handling of international events have earned him criticism over the past few months — from the crisis in Ukraine to his administration's decision to execute a prisoner swap to free U.S. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five Taliban-affiliated prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay military prison.

According to the poll, 44% of respondents said the administration should not have made the exchange, compared with 30% who supported it.

Some other highlights from the poll:

Obama's overall approval rating sits at just 41%, tying an all-time low.
His approval rating on handling the economy also sits at 41%, down 1 percentage point from last month. It's the same number from March.
Obama's favorability rating is underwater — 41% said they view him positively, while 45% see him in a negative light.
When asked their predictions on the rest of Obama's term in office, 54% said they thought he "cannot lead and get the job done," compared with only 42% who said the opposite.
Over the last 12 months, 41% of respondents said their views of the Obama administration have "gotten worse." Only 15% said they have "gotten better."

Obama's declining popularity threatens to drag down Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections. By a 10-point margin, more people said their vote this November will be to "send a signal of opposition to Obama." (41% said their vote will not be a signal to Obama either way.) On the generic congressional ballot, 35% said they would vote for a Democratic candidate in their district, compared with 30% who chose a theoretical Republican candidate.

Why do you think they "suddenly" "found" that Libyan Terrorist-Leader?
Lat time they were in trouble they miraculously "found" Osama!

Yep, they can find him now after all this time, but Lois Lerners emails backed up by dozens of redundant IRS servers have vanished for good......

Ooh. Those are some troubling poll numbers. Well, they could've been troubling if he ever had to run for election ever again, for the rest of his life.

That, and they only polled people without any foreign policy credentials, and didn't ask opinions on any alternate plans, so while the current course of action is unpopular, it's probably still better than anything anybody else could come up with.

Nice try.

some people,if he'd crap in their pocket,would thank him for that nice hunk of Chocolate his Largesse had bestowed on them!
What has proud America become?

Mort would.

Congress and the GOP aren't doing well in the polls, either.

Basically, the majority of Americans don't trust the politicians in D.C. Need I explain why?

'splain Lucy!!!!!!!

Please do. Melmacian.

Dilbert explains it better. The Politicians in D.C. are all Humans, and ...



Thankfully, I am a Melmacian instead of a Human.

DA-DEE DA-DUM

Human? I think not, the Politicians in D.C. are all fat rats.

Yeah, you have a point there.

A disaster of a poll for a disaster of a President. Maybe he will draw one of his infamous red lines now............

Congress isn't doing well in the polls because they are not standing up to the traitor in chief like they all pledged to in their campaigns. Boehner is in Obama's right hand.........wait, that just doesn't sound right