A new Chicago Tribune poll shows Barack Obama's approval rating dipping -8% in the past year, from 59% to 51%.
It's not hard to see what's largely behind the drop in Obama's ratings.
Approval of Obama's handling of the economy and jobs has plummeted 16 percentage points from last year's survey.... Statewide, 47 percent of voters now say they disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy, compared with 42 percent who approve.
And here's a tough demographic trend as the midterms approach.
White suburban women, who came out strong for Obama in 2004 and 2008, now just barely give his job performance positive marks — 41 percent say they approve while 39 percent say they don't, and 20 percent said they couldn't venture an opinion.
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