QUESTION OF THE WEEK #3

The president's job approval rating hasn't gone up from 43%, and his disapproval rating hasn't gone down from 50%.  The prospects are looking pretty grim for Obama from a historical point of view.  Aside from Jimmy Carter, Obama holds the lowest approval rating of all  presidents in office this century during their third year in office.  This looks bad from this view.  However, this number is up from Obama's approval rating of 41% in August, and he's remained steadily at 43% for a few months, which is actually a good thing.  His campaign team really needs to be focusing on getting the approval rating up by December however.  Despite his extremely low approval rating, Obama seems to be competing perfectly well in the polls about the general election against the Republican candidates so far, though this may be just because he appears to be a better option than the terrible consortment of candidates the GOP has come up with.  He still has a possibility for reelection.  Though the president with the lowest approval record who's been reelected lately was George W. Bush with a 48% approval rating, which is still a large percent away from the number that Obama has right now.  In order to have a solid chance at reelection he needs to work on getting his approval rating up.