President Obama is riding a wave of personal popularity into his second term, with his highest favorability ratings since his first year in office, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Sixty percent of Americans have a favorable impression of the president, according to the poll. That is up only slightly from October but is a clear shift from his ratings for most of last year, which hovered in the mid- to low 50s.
By 39 percent to 26 percent, Obama now has more strongly positive ratings than strongly negative ones, breaking a two-year stretch in which intense opposition was on par with or higher than intense support.
Obama’s inaugural address earned him fewer positive marks and appears to have served mainly as a pep rally, with rave reviews from supporters and plenty of yawns from his opponents. While the speech drew twice as many cheers as jeers — 51 percent approved, while 24 percent disapproved — a quarter of Americans had no opinion on the speech. More than eight in 10 Democrats approved of it, but at least three in 10 Republicans and independents had no reaction.
Obama’s general likability ratings have improved across a variety of constituencies, including a wavering base and the political middle. His favorable ratings have climbed by double digits since last year among liberals, racial minorities and people younger than 40. Among each group, at least two-thirds now see him positively.
Two groups that voted against Obama in November are also beginning to tilt in his direction. Independents see him favorably by 60 to 36 percent, compared with a 51 to 45 split a year ago. And 51 percent of those 65 and older now see Obama favorably, up 11 points from January 2012. Independent voters backed Mitt Romney over Obama by six percentage points in November, and seniors favored Romney by 12 points, according to the national exit poll.
Partisans’ opinions have changed the least over time. Eighty percent of Republicans have an unfavorable view of Obama, similar to the 78 percent figure last January. Even more Democrats, 92 percent, say the opposite, with favorable ratings ticking up five points from last year.
After surviving the “fiscal cliff” debate no worse for wear, Obama seems emboldened by his current standing. He has tightened his grip on the bully pulpit, advocating new gun legislation and immigration reform in an effort to parlay his personal popularity into legislative victories. Still, the deep partisan divide over Obama will make it difficult for Republicans and conservative Democrats to get on board, especially those facing reelection contests in 2014.
The Post-ABC poll was conducted Jan. 23-27 among a random national sample of 1,022 adults. The margin of sampling error for the full survey is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Capital Insight director Jon Cohen and pollster Peyton M. Craighill contributed to this report.
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