Gallup released its weekly report on President Obama’s approval rating yesterday, finding the number stuck at 43% where it has been for the past month. This a slight improvement from the 40%-41% rating Obama averaged through October.
But buried down in the report is this nugget on trends since January 2011 when Obama had a much higher 49% approval rating:
Obama’s approval rating has decreased among all six partisan/ideology groups Gallup tracks on a regular basis since January, but it has dropped the most — 10 percentage points, from 40% to 30% — among pure independents. These are the roughly 14% of national adults who neither identify with one of the two major parties nor indicate a leaning. Obama’s approval rating has declined by nearly as much — eight points — among moderate/liberal Republicans, from 29% to 21%.
