Poll: Public pleased with post-election Obama

[RamboLiberal]

Source: MSNBC

More than a month after his November victory, President-elect Barack Obama is enjoying a larger post-election honeymoon with the American public than his recent predecessors did, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Two out of three respondents say they’re pleased with Obama’s early appointments and three-fourths believe that the level of his involvement in making policy has been exactly right.

Another two-thirds view the president-elect in a positive light — a rating that's more favorable than the numbers Bill Clinton and George W. Bush received 1992 and 2000.

These scores, combined with the fact that nearly 80 percent believe Obama will face bigger challenges than other recent presidents have, seem to have given the president-elect some early leeway with Americans, says Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducted this survey with Democratic pollster Peter Hart.

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Indeed, the poll shows Obama with a 67 percent to 16 percent positive/negative rating. That’s compared with the 48 percent to 35 percent rating Bush had in December 2000 and Clinton’s 60 percent to 19 percent rating in December 1992.



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Oh and 79% say they won't miss Bush (guess he still has 21% of the die-hard wingnuts), and 48% think he will go down as one of the worst presidents.

[Third Doctor]

1. I'm pleased also,

I liked the fact that he told the truth and said that the economy will get worse before it gets better. This is something "W" never did, he only admmitted that something was deeply wrong with the economy after the bottom fell out.

[joewicker_TX]

2. I saw a report on the news

which indicated showed how Bush will be favored in history. About 98% said bad to worst ever and then 2% said best ever. I really wonder where these 2% come from. Probably Alaska and Joe the fake-plumber's neighbor :)

[FrenchieCat]

3. Best ever? That must be Laura and the Twins.

[No Elephants]

4. While campaigning in 1999, Bush pointed out that the economy was slipping and would worsen. This

time, though, the worsening economy was happening on his watch, not Clinton's. IMO, we still don't know the half of it.