According to Gallup President Obama’s approval rating among active duty military personnel and veterans is at a paltry 37%. The poll does not include the troops serving overseas or on ships. But since the poll spans a period of about 16 months, it’s possible that some of the troops serving overseas today may have been included.
These results are based on an analysis of more than 238,000 interviews conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking from January 2010 through April 2011. Respondents were classified as veterans/active-duty military based on responses to a series of questions probing whether any member of the household had served in the U.S. military, and whether the respondent himself or herself had served and, if so, whether the respondent was currently on active duty. Americans currently serving in the military overseas or on ships at sea would not be included in this national cell and landline telephone sample.
Thirty-seven percent of all active-duty military personnel and veterans surveyed approved of the job Obama is doing during the January 2010 to April 2011 time frame. That compares with 48% of nonveterans interviewed during the same period.
Obama’s approval rating varies by age, with younger Americans in general most likely to approve and older Americans least likely. The gap in approval between veterans/active duty military and nonveterans persists across the age spectrum, from 18- to 29-year-olds to those 80 and older.
Ed Morrissey notes that it isn’t just the military approval rating that’s troublesome for Obama. His approval rating is slipping among civilians 39 years old and younger.
Scared Monkeys reminds us that President Obama failed to visit Arlington last Memorial Day, and also how the media wants you to believe that Obama is more popular with the military than his predecessor.
Via memeorandum, others discussing this include: BLACKFIVE, The Daily Caller, NewsBusters.org, Don Surber andThe Last Tradition
Tags: approval rating, military, obama
The polls are NOT accurate. Disapproval is higher.
Military people…especially active duty….tend to keep their politics to themselves.
There are a bunch of non-military citizens who also stay quiet. They do not want to be labeled racist for being dissappointed with BHO’s policies.
IMO: There is also a third silent group. Those who are numb at the results of electing BHO and how political discourse in this counter has been taken over by progs and the bullies in the MSM.
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I’m actually a little surprised it’s that close to 40% to begin with, but I suspect it would be even lower if it included military personnel overseas and in-theater.
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