Poll: With 69 percent approval, Obama has political firepower

[babylonsister]

Poll: With 69 percent approval, Obama has political firepower

By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — Nearly seven in ten Americans approve of the way President Barack Obama is doing his job, giving him enormous political capital as he pushes Congress to give him unprecedented tools to fight economic crisis, according to a new McClatchy-Ipsos poll.

Obama outpolls Congress by more than 30 points, and he also can point to an uptick in the number of people who think the country's headed in the right direction even as a majority thinks the worst is yet to come in the economy.

The survey found that 69 percent of Americans approve of Obama's performance — with a robust 38 percent "strongly" approving.

At the same time, 26 percent disapprove of the way he's doing his job, with 12 percent "strongly" disapproving.

Notably, the solid approval was recorded Feb. 6-9, after Obama admitted that he "screwed up" in the ill-fated nomination of former Sen. Tom Daschle to be Health and Human Services secretary. Daschle withdrew under a torrent of criticism for tax problems. The survey of 1,042 adults has an error margin of plus or minus 3.04 percentage points; a subset of 841 registered voters has an error margin of plus or minus 3.38 percent points.

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[SpiralHawk]

1. "Take that, you Republicon Homelanders, you." - The Vast Majority of American People

"You Homelanders can just go off in a corner and FAIL all you want. We want to restore America to the dignity, honor, and prosperity for which we were known before your wide-stance, diaper-clad, FAIL-wishing, borrow-and-spend, deficit-increasing, Chickenhawk, torture-freaking, war-profiteering, totalitarian-leaning, occultist cronies crapped all over our beautiful nation."

- The VAST HONORABLE MAJORITY OF American People

[Captain Hilts]

2. He's not fighting public opinion, he's fighting the press and Republicans.

Clinton left office with 67% approval rating and people were convinced there was "Clinton fatigue" even though surveys showed he would have defeated Gore and Bush handily, together or one-on-one. But the press distorted popular perception.

So far, I think Obama is winning this fight. Fingers crossed.

[SpiralHawk]

6. You nailed it, Cap'n

The Homelander corporate press, and a weenie pack of Big Mouth hypocritical Republicon officials -- led by the drug-doing, draft-dodging Biggest Mouth of All (Rush Limbaugh) are the only entities that oppose the common-sense effort to try and rescue the economy (and national honor) the Republicons tossed in the FAIL crapper with their lies, corruption, deviant, greed-infested philosophy, and ineptitude.

[AtomicKitten]

3. He bumped up another 7-8 pts in the Gallup poll just this week. n/t

[Thrill]

4. Isn't this the Ipsos poll Drudge and the righties loved during the campaign?

LOL

[BeyondGeography]

5. Are they still underestimating "Zero" on the other side?

Yup.