New ABC/WaPo poll: Obama's approval 65%, GOP at lowest
by Drdemocrat
WaPo has a negative headline on their website but the new ABC/WaPo poll is overall pretty good for Obama. Their negative headline is that little more than half of Americans think the stimulus package is working. But that is understandable because so very little of the stimulus money has been dolled out so far.
Obama is at 65% approval while the GOP's is once again like every other poll out there at it's lowest.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/22/AR2009062202000.html?hpid=topnews....................Approve
...Disapprove
Job overall
..........65%
........31
Int’l affairs
..........61
..........32
Terrorism
............57
..........36
Economy
............56
..........41
Global warming
.....54
..........28
Health care
.........53
..........39
Iran
.................52
..........36
Deficit
..............48
..........48
Automakers
........45
..........50
According to this new poll, Obama has key leverage over the GOP in three areas because the Republican party is so unpopular.
Obama maintains leverage on these issues in part because of the continuing weakness of his opposition. The survey found the favorability ratings of congressional Republicans at their lowest point in polls dating back more than a decade. Obama also has significant advantages over Republican lawmakers in terms of public trust on dealing with the economy, health care, the deficit and the threat of terrorism, all despite broad-based GOP criticism of his early actions on these fronts.
Like the other 2 big polls out this past week (NBC/WSJ & NYT/CBS polls), Obama's weakness is the GM bailout (people have bailout fatigue and want less government meddling in the private sector) and his handling the deficit.
However what works for Obama is how people view Obama in terms of the deficit.
One factor that continues to work for Obama, however, is that most Americans continue to see him as a new type of Democrat, one "who will be careful with the public's money," rather than an old-style, "tax-and-spend Democrat." By this point in 1993, Clinton had already lost the new-style label, which he had maintained over the first months of his presidency.
There are 2 headlines out this week: Iran and health care reform. I don't see this poll addressing the health care reform battle but they asked about Iran (perhaps they will focus on it with tomorrow's headline). Although Obama has been hammered by the GOP on Iran, Obama's approval rating on Iran hasn't changed.
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