Amid Iraq Crisis, Obama’s Approval Ratings Drop

Natalie Johnson / June 24, 2014

The recent fallout in Iraq has hit President Barack Obama’s foreign policy ratings, knocking them to a steep low in the past month.

A striking 58 percent of Americans, including nearly a third of Democrats, are dissatisfied with the president’s foreign policy decisions, an all-time high for the New York Times/CBS News Poll since Obama took office

“I voted for him because he said, ‘Give me four more years and I will fix everything,’ but nothing is being fixed,” Michelle Roberts, a Democrat from Salem, Mass., told the New York Times.

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More than two-thirds of Americans feel that Obama has not clearly explained what the U.S.’s goals are in Iraq. This confusion may be a factor in the 52 percent disapproval rating the president received on his handling of the current Iraqi crisis.

This poll is another conducted this past month that has revealed a drop in Obama’s public opinion ratings. It surveyed 1,009 adults and has an overall margin of error of plus-or-minus three percentage points.