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Daily Presidential Tracking Poll in Politics Email thisShareThis . Related Articles President’s Full-Month Approval Ends 2015 On A Low Note Voters Blame Congress More Than Obama for Gridlock Hey, Fellas, How ’Bout Some Teamwork? Guns or Terrorism – What’s the Call? 26% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction Americans Aren’t Big on New Year’s Resolutions Sign up for free daily updates . Tuesday, January 05, 2016 The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 49% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama's job performance. Fifty percent (50%) disapprove (see trends). The latest figures include 26% who Strongly Approve of the way Obama is performing as president and 40% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. Regular updates are posted Monday through Friday at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). With the Iowa caucus less than a month away, Republicans have two more debates scheduled; Democrats have one. Are voters still watching or have they had enough? We’ll tell you at 10:30 a.m. Eastern today. The president’s monthly job approval ended 2015 at its low point for the year. Voters want Obama and the Republican-led Congress to work together, and they're far more likely to blame Congress than the president for preventing that from happening. Seventy-nine percent (79%) think it is more important for Congress and the president to work together to achieve what’s best for the country rather than to stand for what they believe in. But Obama yesterday enacted several limited gun control initiatives through executive order because he knows Congress won’t approve them. This is where voters stand on gun control these days. (More below) Total Approval03-Jan-1105-Aug-1112-Mar-1212-Oct-1221-May-1327-Dec-1331-Jul-1411-Mar-1505-Jan-1630%40%50%60%70%www.RasmussenReports.comTotal Approve For the third week in a row, just 26% of voters think the country is heading in the right direction. Americans are more disappointed with last year than they expected to be but are more confident about 2016. However, most are not starting the year with a New Year’s resolution. (More below) -14Approval Index03-Jan-1105-Aug-1112-Mar-1212-Oct-1221-May-1327-Dec-1331-Jul-1411-Mar-1505-Jan-1610%20%30%40%50%www.RasmussenReports.comStrongly DisapproveStrongly Approve Some readers wonder how we come up with our job approval ratings for the president since they often don’t show as dramatic a change as some other pollsters do. It depends on how you ask the question and whom you ask. To get a sense of longer-term job approval trends for the president, Rasmussen Reports compiles our tracking data on a full month-by-month basis. Rasmussen Reports has been a pioneer in the use of automated telephone polling techniques, but many other firms still utilize their own operator-assisted technology (see methodology).