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For the past several months President Barack Obama has stood upright against opposition from Republicans who want to repeal Obamacare and the government shutdown debacle. But his approval rating has not had similar success as of late.

Obama’s approval rating now stands at 42 percent, an all-time low, reports say.

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Huffington Post:

“The NBC/WSJ pollsters argue that no single reason explains Obama’s lower poll standing,” writes NBC senior political editor Mark Murray. “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.”

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