Obama Approval Rating Plummets To All-Time Low

President Obama’s approval rating hit an all-time low this week.

According to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, Obama’s approval rating currently stands at 42%. At the beginning of October, the president had an approval rating of 47%.

NBC didn’t point to one specific factor that caused the down slide, but there are plenty of possibilities. The government’s health care website has been plagued by problems since its launch, the government was recently shutdown due to infighting among congress members, and the public has grown increasingly upset with allegation of spying by the NSA.

NBC writes: “The NBC/WSJ pollsters argue that no single reason explains Obama’s lower poll standing… Rather, they attribute it to the accumulation of setbacks since the summer — allegations of spying by the National Security Agency, the debate over Syria’s chemical weapons, the government shutdown and now intense scrutiny over the problems associated with the health care law’s federal website and its overall implementation.”

The Huffington Post notes that Obama’s favorability rating was also down. The pole found that 41% of pollsters viewed Obama favorably while 45% viewed the President unfavorably.

If there is any consolation for the president, it’s that Obama isn’t the only person with a low approval rating. The Republicans, who the majority of Americans blamed for the shutdown, were viewed unfavorably by 53% of Americans. Most people would like to see Democrats maintain control of congress, but the gap is starting to shrink.

John Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) are all viewed unfavorably and the majority of people are anti-incumbent. Nearly 75% of people now believe that congress causes more problems than they fix.

If you look at all of that, it’s easy to see why only 22% of those polled said that the country was heading in the right direction.