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Poll: Obama rating slips, but still high
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Feb 21, 2009 01:39am |
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| Media | TV News - CNN |
| News Date | Saturday, February 21, 2009 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | CNN
"A national poll indicates that two out of three Americans approve of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president of the United States.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, released Friday, also suggests that six in 10 support the economic stimulus package that Obama signed into law Tuesday.
Obama's approval rating stands at 67 percent in the new poll. That's down 9 percentage points from the most recent CNN poll, which was conducted in early February. But a breakdown by party suggests that the drop doesn't mean that the new president is in serious trouble.
"Since nearly all of the decline came among Republicans, this doesn't indicate that the honeymoon is already over," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director. "Among Democrats, Obama's approval went from 96 percent to 92 percent; among Republicans, it dropped from 50 percent in early February to 31 percent now."
Among independents, the president's approval rating now stands at 61 percent, down 6 percentage points from earlier in the month.
Sixty percent of those questioned in the poll favored the economic stimulus plan, with 39 percent opposing the package. The $787 billion law is designed to pump up the economy by increasing federal government spending, sending aid to states in fiscal trouble and by cutting taxes." |
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