The president's approval rating has fallen 9 points since October, the survey found. Poll: Obama, ACA hit record lows

President Barack Obama’s approval has dropped below 40 percent, the lowest it’s ever been in CBS News polling.

Just 37 percent of Americans approve of the job Obama is doing as president, compared with 57 percent who disapprove in a CBS News poll out Wednesday. The sub-40 percent figure is the lowest approval rating Obama has seen during his presidency in CBS’s polling and is a 9 point drop from October.


The president’s signature health care law is also at a new low. Approval of Obamacare stands at 31 percent with disapproval at 61 percent, the worst figures for the law in CBS’s polling.

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Only one in three survey respondents said they believe the government will be able to fix the health care exchange website by the White House’s end-of-the-month deadline, and just 7 percent said the Affordable Care Act should be left in place without any changes. Forty-eight percent said it needs some changes, and 43 percent want it repealed entirely.

In more bad news for the health care law, a separate poll also out Wednesday found that of the uninsured Americans who have visited a health care exchange website, two-thirds had a bad experience.

Sixty-three percent of those surveyed by Gallup said they had a negative or very negative experience on the exchange site, while 34 percent said they had a positive or very positive one.

The CBS survey included 1,010 adults from Nov. 15 to Nov. 18 and has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Gallup surveyed 1,573 uninsured adults from Oct. 23 to Nov. 18 for its poll, which has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.