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Barack Obama faces Armageddon in latest polls
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Feb 08, 2010 11:34pm |
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| Category | Poll |
| Author | Nile Gardiner |
| News Date | Tuesday, February 9, 2010 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Forget “Snowmageddon”. Washington may be deluged under nearly three feet of snow, but Barack Obama is experiencing a sinking feeling of another kind. The latest US polls, highlighted here by Daniel Foster at The Corner at NRO, are stunningly bad for the president. Frankly, the Titanic’s prospects looked better than Obama’s do today, even after it hit the iceberg.
As Foster points out, three major new polls show the president in serious trouble in the wake of the stunning Massachusetts Senate special election win by Scott Brown. According to the latest Marist survey of registered voters, 47 percent disapprove of Obama’s job performance, while just 44 percent approve. Most worryingly for the White House, support for the president among independents has fallen dramatically, with 57 percent now disapproving of the president, and just 29 percent giving him their backing.
The Marist poll also reveals that a mere 7 percent of voters believe the president has exceeded their expectations. 47 percent believe Obama “has fallen below their expectations”, and just 42 percent say he has “met their expectations”. Significantly, “38 percent think the direction in which Mr Obama is moving the country is for the worse, and 37 percent believe he is changing the nation for the better.” |
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