Sentence examples for poor approval from inspiring English sources

Yet both left office with poor approval ratings.

This discouraging record is hardly improved by Mr. Paterson's poor approval ratings.

The remarks prompted an outcry from all quarters, and once again underscored his poor approval ratings among women.

It is far too soon, as some are suggesting after some poor approval ratings, for Obama to "go home; as expert psephologist Alan Lichtman comments, "Even if I am being conservative, I don't see how Obama can lose".

Harry Reid, the Senator majority leader who was battling a Republican wave nationally and poor approval ratings locally, upset expectations (and the polls) to defeat the Republican Sharron Angle in Nevada's Senate race.

(Poor approval ratings at home might be more problematic for a candidate from an early-voting state like Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina, because reporters from those states can figure prominently in national coverage.

A poor presidential approval rating will only add to that frustration.

He won (always close) re-elections over and over again -- despite some poor job approval ratings in North Carolina -- by lavishly outspending opponents, in some cases by 30 to 1.

After Labor's 2013 election defeat, Shorten won the party's first leadership contest with rank and file participation, under rules imposed to stop Labor's culture of leadership destabilisation, which also left him secure despite poor personal approval ratings and patchy performance.

However, President Barack Obama has an equally poor 31percentt approval rate in Kentucky, which could hurt Lundergan Grimes as the campaign progresses.

That, coupled with incumbents winning re-election more than 90percentt of the time despite poor congressional approval ratings, led Fenno to observe a clear separation between how voters see Congress writ large and how they see their individual member of Congress.