Which religious group shows the most support for Obama?

Which religious group shows the most support for Obama? 2016-09-30T15:53:23-04:00

It’s not Catholics, whose approval rating is a paltry 44%.

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President Obama’s approval rating has dropped to 43% from its one-time high of 69% in January 2009, but the president still holds majority favor among one group: Muslim Americans.

According to a recent Gallup poll conducted in the first six months of 2014, 72 percent of U.S. Muslims approve of the job President Obama is doing. This is the highest approval rating among religious groups by a huge margin, with the next highest at 59 percent of “other non-Christians.”

Mormons expressed the lowest support for President Obama’s work with just an 18 percent approval rating and a whopping 78 percent disapproval. The president’s approval rating has decreased across religious groups by 5-7 percentage points in the first half of 2014 compared to the 2009-14 period. Muslims have consistently been the most approving of Obama’s job, however, and Mormons the least approving.

Read more and see the complete stats here. 


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