President Barack Obama has a net negative favorability rating in new polling from ABC News and the Washington Post. The data shows Obama at 49 percent unfavorable against 48 percent favorable, the first time he’s gone into the negative in ABC/WaPo survey. But that doesn’t mean his opponents are viewed any better. From ABCnews.com:
Gingrich is further underwater, with an unfavorable rating that’s essentially the same as Obama’s — 48 percent — but a favorable score that’s 13 points lower, 35 percent. (More are undecided about Gingrich than about the president.) Moreover, while just 23 percent see Obama “strongly” favorably, Gingrich’s core group of strong supporters is just half as large, 12 percent.