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Obama approval ratings hit new lows: What people are saying

By Elizabeth Flock Washington Post

President Obama, the day before his lowest approval ratings yet were released. (Charles Dharapak - AP) The numbers aren't pretty.

The Washington Post/ABC News and Wall Street Journal/NBC News polls released early Tuesday show President Obama has the lowest approval ratings yet of his presidency.

Democratic pollster Peter Hart has declared that "Obama is no longer the favorite to win re-election," while ABC News correspondent George Stephanopolous has asked whether this takes Obama into the "incumbent death zone." German writer Eamonn Fitzgerald has proclaimed, simply: "Hope's gone."

Here's a look at the numbers:

The Washington Post/ABC News poll

*43 percent of Americans approve of the job Obama is doing, while 53 percent disapprove. (His previous approval low was 52 percent.)

*62 percent of Americans disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy.

*By 2 to 1, more Americans now say the Obama administration's economic policies are making the economy worse rather than better.

*Of the more than six in 10 who now disapprove of Obama's work on jobs and the economy, nearly half of all Americans "strongly" disapprove.

*Six in 10 disapprove of Obama's work on the federal budget deficit, a percentage that is basically where it was a year ago.