Gallup Poll: Americans Like Obama But Not His Deficit Spending
A new Gallup Poll finds Americans like President Barack Obama so much that he’s ahead of Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican George W. Bush at similar points in their first year in office — but many Americans don’t like his deficit spending:’
While 67% of Americans view President Barack Obama favorably, his overall job approval rating and his ratings on specific areas are less positive. At the low end of the spectrum, only 45% of Americans approve of Obama’s handling of federal spending, and 46% of his handling of the federal budget deficit.
This poll indicates an opening for Republicans, if they can get beyond being a party defined by talk show radio hosts that commuicates in the slash-and-burn style of the talk radio political culture:
Gallup further notes that Obama’s “favorable rating has dropped, but his positive still outweighs his negative rating by better than a 2-to-1 ratio.”
This puts him slightly higher than Bush who was atg 62% at this point and higher than Clinton, who was at 48%.
And he gets a higher rating as a person than he does when you look at how he’s graded on specific issues:
2 Responses to “Gallup Poll: Americans Like Obama But Not His Deficit Spending”
I think it is to early to tell yet.
True. Like the guy, but he's trying to buy votes and meddle in everything and all of it is wrong. And sadly, it's going to get worse, because there's a horde of people who not only like Obama, but don't care about the spending or actually approve of the spending, or only find fault with it because they want so much more of it.
(Their votes are easily, cheaply bought, something the Demmies have exploited en masse since the 1930s.)