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US president's sagging approval ratings improve by nine points following al-Qaeda chief's killing, surveys show. Last Modified: 04 May 2011 06:04 | ||
After being on the decline for a while, US president's popularity has got a strong boost following the killing of Osama bin Laden. Two surveys, conducted a day after US forces tracked down and killed the al-Qaeda chief in a hideout in Pakistan, found Barack Obama's approval ratings at 56 per cent - a 9-point improvement over last month. The results released on Tuesday were reported by The Washington Post/Pew Research Center and USA Today/Gallup Poll. While the killing of bin Laden seized world attention, such events can prove short-lived, particularly after a brutal presidential campaign. Even though the economy is slowly recovering from the Great Recession, unemployment remains near 9 per cent and gasoline prices have shot up. The USA Today/Gallup Poll survey found that more than six in 10 of those contacted said a reprisal attack was likely in the coming weeks. That, the pollsters said, was "the highest rate of public nervousness in eight years". The polls surveyed randomly selected adults by telephone on May 2 and have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus five percentage points. | ||
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