President Obama will deliver Tuesday’s State of the Union address facing deep skepticism from the American public about his leadership, according to a new NBC-News/Wall Street Journal poll.
The survey shows a 51 percent majority of the public disapprove Obama’s job performance, compared to 43 percent who approve. Not only is that the first time Obama has begun a new year “underwater” in the NBC/WSJ poll, he joins predecessors George W. Bush and Harry S. Truman as the only presidents to begin their sixth year in office with a net negative rating. CONT.
John Harwood, CNBC