Zogby: Obama Approval Plummets To 42%

President Barack Obama's Job Approval Rating rating is down to 42%, with a decline in approval from Democrats the leading factors. The latest Zogby Interactive Poll of 4,518 likely voters conducted from August 28-31 found 48% disapprove and 42% approve of the job Obama is doing. The poll found the 75% of Democrats approve of Obama's job performance, a drop of 13% among Democrats from a interactive poll done July 21-24 of this year. That same poll same poll found 48%of all likely voters approving of Obama job performance. 49% disapproving. In the most recent poll 8% of Republicans and 37% of Independents approve of Obama's job performance. Both are down from six weeks ago; two points among Repulicans and three points among Independents. In the time between the two Aforementioned polls Zogby conducted a similar interactive survey from August 18-20. That poll 45% of likely voters approving of Obama's job performance and 51% disapproving. So Obama is up very slightly overall from 10 days earlier. The August 28-31 poll also found. 17% give Obama a excellent job rating, 25% rate him good, 16 fair and 41% poor. Combing the to highest and lowest rankings shows 42% rating positively and 57% negatively. (This is the standard Zogby International has used for many years in measuring job performance.) Likely voters are closely split on whether they have a favorable opinion of Obama, with 50% favorable and 48% unfavorable. Democrats are more positive about Obama personally than they are of his job performance, with 85% rate him favorably. 52% of all likely voters are proud to have Obama as President and 35% are ashamed. The percentage of those proud is unchanged from six weeks ago. The majority of likely voters (53%) believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, with 38% saying right direction. The margin of error for the poll is +/-1.5 percentage points. Margin of errors are higher sub-groups.