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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening, president obama has not been enjoying the kind of popularity that gets presidents reelected. but in a new cbs news/ new york times poll out tonight, there are signs he has turned a corner. for the moment, at least, half the public now approves of the job he is doing. have a look. last may, right after navy seals killed osama bin laden the president s job-approval rating soared to 57%. but by november it was back to 43%, tying his all-time low. then the numbers started rising. tonight hitting 50%. you ve guessed why. since november, the dow is up about 7% and unemployment is down four-tenths of a point. in our poll, the number of americans who say the economy is getting better has risen from 18% in november to 34% now. even so, when asked about the condition of the economy, 75% said it s bad. more now about the president and the poll from our chief white house correspondent n
tonight. norah? reporter: scott, the good economic news out there is boosting the president s overall standing with voters, particularly independents, and that s why there s hardly a day that goes by that we don t hear the president talking about the turnaround in the economy. our economy is growing stronger. and the last thing we need, the last thing we can afford to do, is to go back to the same policies that got us in this mess in the first place. reporter: the president s message seems to be resonating. 42% of voters think he is making progress fixing the economy. and that s up 14 points in just two months. we found democrat kathie maloney on a street coroner chicago. if he hadn t have taken the steps he did and enacted the proposals he did we d be in a much worse place than we are now and i think things are coming back and getting better. reporter: at the heart of mr. obama s reelection message is a push for what he calls economic fairness and a proposal to rai
captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening, president obama has not been enjoying the kind of popularity that gets presidents reelected. but in a new cbs news/ new york times poll out tonight, there are sign he is has turned a corner. for the moment, at least, half the public now approves of the job he is doing. have a look. last may, right after navy seals killed osama bin laden the president s job-approval rating soared to 57%. but by november it was back to 43%, tying his all-time low. then the numbers started rising. tonight hitting 50%. you ve guessed why. since november, the dow is up about 7% and unemployment is down four-tenths of a point. in our poll, the number of americans who say the economy is getting better has risen from 18% in november to 34% now. even so, when asked about the condition of the economy, 75% said it s bad. more now about the president and the poll from our chief white house correspondent