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Poll: Economic worries flatten Obama’s “bin Laden bounce”
American voters’ worries about the economy have helped flatten the “bin Laden bounce” that President Barack Obama received after the killing of the terrorist, according to an independent national Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.
Overall, voters were divided on Democrat Obama’s performance, with 47 percent approving and 46 percent disapproving. That’s down from 52 percent approval and 40 percent disapproval on May 5, shortly after bin Laden’s killing by Navy Seals.
Voters are down on Obama’s handling of the economy, with 58 percent disapproving and 36 percent approving.
Voters by a narrow margin - 43 percent - trust House Republicans more than Obama - 41 percent - to handle the economy. That’s the reverse of things in May when Obama led, 46-37 percent, on this question.
Still, there were glimmers of hope for the president, gearing up for re-election next year. Among independent voters, his approval was slightly positive - 46 percent approve, 43 percent disapprove.
Democrats approved the president’s performance, 83-11 percent, while Republicans turned thumbs down, 82-13 percent.
“What should worry the White House is that 78 percent of voters think the country is in a recession and the number of voters who think a recovery has begun has dropped from 54-43 percent in Jan. 18 Quinnipiac University poll to a negative 45-52 percent today,” Peter Brown, Quinnipiac University Polling Institute assistant director, said in a press release.
In other poll findings, voters:
*Said by a 55-12 percent margin that they sympathize more with Israelis than Palestinians.
*Were cool toward U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and Libya, with just 40 percent saying the U.S. is doing the right thing in Afghanistan and only 35 percent saying the country is doing the right thing in Libya.
*Trust Obama - 44 percent - slightly more than congressional Republicans - 40 percent - on Medicare.
The poll was taken May 31 to Monday, June 6 with 1,946 registered voters nationwide and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points. Live interviewers surveyed voters over land lines and cell phones.
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By Squirrellygirl
June 16, 2011 10:56 AM | Link to this
Pres Obama’s last campaign was riddled with questions regarding unidentified contributors who made their contributions via credit card by the icon was turned off so that it wouldn’t reveal the customer’s information. Also, Obama paid ACORN and we all know what happened when they got caught and found to be operating illegally. Obama’s ties and special deals including approving waivers on the hc bill to the unions is also suspect. Also under scrutiny is Obama’s funding of the “Arab Spring” which appears to be helping the Muslim Brotherhood to get in power in Egypt. Remember that Muslim Brotherhood is an organization of radical islams who vocally intend to annilate Israel. Obama’s socialist agenda could be viewed as an attempt to overthrow our capitalist Republic.
By Perspective
June 13, 2011 8:51 AM | Link to this
Who is in Wall St’s pocket? This from the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/us/politics/13donor.html?_r=1&ref=politics Mr. Obama, who enraged many financial industry executives a year and a half ago by labeling them “fat cats” and criticizing their bonuses, followed up the meeting with phone calls to those who could not attend. The event, organized by the Democratic National Committee, kicked off an aggressive push by Mr. Obama to win back the allegiance of one of his most vital sources of campaign cash — in part by trying to convince Wall Street that his policies, far from undercutting the investor class, have helped bring banks and financial markets back to health. Last month, Mr. Obama’s campaign manager, Jim Messina, traveled to New York for back-to-back meetings with Wall Street donors, ending at the home of Marc Lasry, a prominent hedge fund manager, to court donors close to Mr. Obama’s onetime rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton. And Mr. Obama will return to New York this month to dine with bankers, hedge fund executives and private equity investors at the Upper East Side restaurant Daniel. “The first goal was to get recognition that the administration has led the economy from an unimaginably difficult place to where we are today,” said Blair W. Effron, an investment banker closely involved in Mr. Obama’s fund-raising efforts. “Now the second goal is to turn that into support.” The president’s top financial industry supporters say they are confident that the support Mr. Obama needs will ultimately be there, despite the financial industry’s unhappiness over his efforts to tighten regulation of their businesses. But it is clear that those supporters will have to work much harder to win over the financial services industry than they did in 2008, before Wall Street’s bust, the subsequent clashes over policy and the sometimes bitter personal differences that lingered afterward. Executives at large investment banks, a group that gave generously to Mr. Obama in his last campaign, are remaining on the sidelines for now. Only a small handful of such donors have appeared in Mr. Obama’s joint campaign filings with the Democratic National Committee, though officials there said more would appear in the coming weeks.
By Squirrellygirl
June 10, 2011 9:02 AM | Link to this
At the end of the day, people need to know they are secure. Secure in their jobs. Secure to be able to buy food, gas for their cars, pay their bills. Right now, security is not a strong point of this administration. Obama’s bounce from Bid Laden kill can’t take away the facts that our economy has never recovered from Obama’s job killing policies which are continuous. Obama was never a centrist, and his policies prove it. He is a dictator who doesn’t choose to even put on appearance of consorting with the other branches of government as he is required. Example, here we are bombing yet another country. Obama is a WAR president, and he is a socialist. Who are our allies now? Obama crapped all over Israel, and Obama’s ties to corruption can’t be ignored.
By c'mon man
June 10, 2011 6:42 AM | Link to this
Obama, no soup for you!
By Sassy
June 9, 2011 11:43 PM | Link to this
yada, yada, yada…NEXT!
By James Mark
June 9, 2011 2:36 PM | Link to this
I don’t give Obama credit for killing Bin Laden. There were alot of people involved in the finding and killing of the terrorist. I view OBama more in line with Bin Laden as far as being bad for America. His affiliation with Acorn, his Chicago background, Rahm Emanuel, Cass Sunstein, Van Jones all give me reason to value OBama poorly. His recent blunder in toasting the Queen at an improper time is an embarassment for America. OBama removing the bust of Churchill because of some incident with his Grandfather gives me reason to disrespect his culture and behavior. OBama claims to be Christian but shows his early training in Islam may have something to do with his terrible advice to Israel to give up land to the Palestinians with borders dating back to 1967. It is time to see Obama pack to leave the White House in 2012!