American public opinion changed in significant ways over the course of Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House, including on issues such as the economy, race relations, and the level of confidence the public has in different aspects or actors in the government. Many of these changes were the result of social and cultural forces that would have occurred regardless of who was president. Others can be more directly attributed to the Obama presidency. …
In the following sections, we review changes since 2009 in five major areas of public opinion. CONT.
Frank Newport & Andrew Dugan, Gallup