Democrats in the News

Gallup recently updated the questions the organization asks about people in the news. In the poll, 56 percent had a favorable opinion of President Obama, down from 78 percent in January. Hillary Clinton’s October rating was 62 percent, slightly higher than the president’s rating and one of the best in the 17 years Gallup has asked the question about her. As for John Edwards, Gallup reports that it “has never before found as steep a decline in consecutive measurements for a prominent figure as it has for John Edwards.”

Source: The Gallup Organization, October 2009.