During the debate over the so-called fiscal cliff in December, public opinion surveys showed more Americans trusted President Obama than trusted Republicans in Congress when it came to handling the nation’s economy. … But with more budget battles approaching, over raising the nation’s borrowing limit and perhaps reaching a grand […] Read more »
Americans Widely Back Government Job Creation Proposals
Americans widely support each of three job creation proposals, including offering tax breaks to businesses that create jobs in the U.S. and a program that would put people to work on urgent infrastructure repair projects. Support for these programs is only slightly lower in a variant of the question that […] Read more »
GOP Doubles Down on Ryan to Change the Narrative
In what can only be regarded as an interesting gamble, Wisconsin Rep. Paul D. Ryan and House Republicans this week are proposing an economic agenda oddly similar to the one they have been offering for the past two years. … Whatever you think of the proposal as a policy document, […] Read more »
People agree the sequester is bad. They don’t agree on how to fix it.
Big majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents believe that the sequester will hurt the economy and the military. But a newly released Washington Post-ABC News poll reveals that no proposed solutions to the sequester (of five tested) rallies majority support across party lines. That’s the conundrum facing Obama and Congress […] Read more »
Obama’s approval drops as Americans take a dimmer view of his economic policies
The afterglow of President Obama’s reelection and inauguration appears to have vanished as increasingly negative views among Americans about his stewardship of the economy have forced his public approval rating back down to the 50 percent mark, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. … The poll contains ample […] Read more »
Drops in Approval & Trust on the Economy End Obama’s Post-Election Honeymoon
The post-election party is over for Barack Obama, with the president slipping in overall approval and relinquishing his advantage over congressional Republicans in trust to handle the economy. But it looks not so much like a gain for the GOP as a sequester-inspired pox on both houses. The automatic budget […] Read more »