A recent poll shows that support for President Obama’s economic programs is weakening. While 56% still say they think his policies will help the economy that is a big drop from the 72% he had in an earlier poll. He has also seen his ‘tax and spend’ label grow by 11% and six in ten surveyed do not support additional stimulus spending.
While clearly 56% is still a solid support level for Obama the drop is pretty significant and it does look like he will have trouble pushing through his stimulus package. I also suspect this will make it harder for him to keep up the theme of rushing to pass the health care program as voters seem to want to take a better look.
Obviously this does not mean that he is somehow doomed, far from it. But the early days where it looked like he would be able to move through major changes do seem to have ended, at least for now.