President Obama’s approval rating has jumped to 54 percent following his speech at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
That’s Obama’s highest rating in the same CNN/ORC poll in nearly four years, and is the highest it’s been since just before his section inauguration in 2013.
Obama’s approval rating had fallen to 50 percent after the Republican National Convention, and 46 percent of those polled disapproved of the president. Now, 54 percent approve of the job Obama is doing, and 45 percent disapprove.
Obama found high levels of support among Democrats (89-10), non-whites (77-22), people younger than 45 years old (68-31), college graduates (62-37), and women (59-40).
Men were split on Obama (48-51), and white voters mostly disapproved of him (43-56). People older than 45 also disapproved (42-57).
Obama’s high approval rating at this time of his presidency is about the same as the rating earned by Ronald Reagan in 1988 and Bill Clinton in 2000.
The telephone-based poll of 1,003 adults was conducted July 29-31, carrying an overall margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, including 894 registered voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
