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Clinton Pollster: Obama Better Off Now Than Clinton In '94
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| Contributor | WesternDem |
| Last Edited | WesternDem Nov 05, 2010 12:30pm |
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| Category | Perspective |
| Author | Sam Stein |
| Media | Website - Huffington Post |
| News Date | Friday, November 5, 2010 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON -- President Bill Clinton's chief pollster when the Democratic Party suffered massive losses in the 1994 midterm election said the landscape facing President Obama now is better suited for a comeback.
In a conference call on Friday, Stan Greenberg pointed to several silver linings for a White House that had just lost 60 seats in -- and control of -- the House of Representatives. Obama, he predicted, has a clearer path to a political comeback than Clinton did 16 years ago.
"In almost all cases here, President Obama is doing somewhat better than President Clinton was and that was at a comparable time," Greenberg said, "[Obama's] approval rating is higher, [his] personal favorability rating is a little higher. And the other important piece here was when the Democrats were thrown out in '94, they had been in power for a long time and so the negative feelings on the Democratic Party were stark and reflected the difference on those numbers in '94." |
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