If President Barack Obama had piled up political capital with his impressive re-election, it’s largely gone. His approval rating has dropped to the lowest level in more than a year, with more voters now turning thumbs down on his performance than thumbs up, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. The […] Read more »
Did President Obama ‘divide the country’ in 2012? No worse than usual.
On Sunday, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said this of President Obama’s 2012 campaign during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation”: “He didn’t win in a landslide. He won by three percentage points, but he won by waging a very effective campaign, and he won by in some ways […] Read more »
President Obama is about to lose the PR battle on the sequester
… More Americans trust Obama on the sequester than Republicans, but the margin between the two seems to be down. Obama held a 26pt lead over congressional Republicans in December per Pew Research, which dropped to 18pt in mid-February and 13pt by the end of the month. After the sequester […] Read more »
At the White House, As Goes the Budget, So Goes the Polls
… The early suspicion that Washington’s inability to head off budget sequestration would hurt both sides is still a very reasonable one, although the circumstances differ for each party. When pollsters ask respondents about approval/disapproval or favorable/unfavorable opinions of Congress overall, of the Republican Party, or of “Republicans in Congress,” […] Read more »
Despite the Dysfunction, Congress Still Has Fans
… In follow-up interviews, those respondents to the Times poll gave a complicated and contradictory set of reasons for looking at Congress through rose-colored glasses. Several backtracked or qualified their support when asked to describe what they found so appealing about the institution. The words “idiots” and “ninnies” came up. […] Read more »
Most feel sequester will personally affect them
Congress and President Obama continue to remain at odds on how best to reduce the federal deficit — causing the automatic spending cuts referred to as the sequester to start taking effect last Friday. A CBS News Poll conducted as the sequester cuts were about to begin finds that most […] Read more »