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Poll: Obama earning high marks
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Dec 03, 2008 06:27pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - USA Today |
| News Date | Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Susan Page, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama gets soaring marks for his handling of the transition and his choices for the Cabinet, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, even at a time the public is downbeat over the economy.
More than three of four Americans, including a majority of Republicans, approve of the job Obama has done so far — broad-based support he'll need as he faces tough decisions ahead.
By 69%-25%, those surveyed approve of his pick of New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, his former Democratic primary rival, as secretary of State.
By an even wider margin, 80%-14%, they favor his decision to ask President Bush's Pentagon chief, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, to stay on the job.
Americans are "projecting their hopes" for the new president, says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies polling, though they will expect concrete results to follow.
"He'll have a season of good will," Franklin says, but over time "it's going to become increasingly Obama's economy rather than Bush's economy."
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