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Title: Rising Optimism About Economy Gives Obama a Boost: NBC News/Wall Street Poll
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CNBC
URL Source: http://www.cnbc.com/id/46135175
Published: Jan 25, 2012
Author: By: John Harwood
Post Date: 2012-01-25 19:07:00 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 2380
Comments: 5
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows a significant uptick, to 30% from 22% in December, in the proportion of Americans who believe the country is heading “in the right direction. “ Similarly, the proportion of Americans who believe the economy will improve in the next year has risen to 37%, up from 30% in December. Since October, the proportion who expect the economy to get worse in the next year has fallen by roughly half, to 17%. In tandem with that increase in positive sentiment is a somewhat brighter outlook for Mr. Obama. Approval for the president’s handling of the economy has ticked up to 45%, from 39% in December. Some 50% still disapprove. But Mr. Obama’s overall job approval rating, considered the most important barometer of his hopes for a second term, has moved into positive territory for the first time in seven months. Some 48% approve of his handling of the presidency, while 46% disapprove. In December, those numbers were reversed. Those numbers hardly erase Mr. Obama’s vulnerability in November. The national telephone survey of 1,000 adults, conducted Jan 22-24 with interviews completed before the president had delivered his State of the Union speech, carries a margin for error of 3.1 percentage points. But the survey also shows that, while Mr. Obama appeared to benefit from a more optimistic mood about the economy, Congress did not. Just 13% of Americans approve of Congress’ job performance. That was unchanged from December and down from the already-anemic 22% last February, just after Republicans had gained control of the House and increasing strength in the Democratic-run Senate. The president showed in the State of the Union address, in which he vowed to fight obstruction on Capitol Hill and advocated tougher ethics rules for lawmakers, that he aims to focus public discontent with Washington onto Congress in his re-election bid.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Just shows you how stupid some people really are......
Quiz of the Day: Who made the statement "The world would be a better place if only Men were to vote?????? HINT: It was a woman!!!
Oilbomber only looks good when he's standing next to Newt and Mitts.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Well he will have no problems come November then, eh? {{{chuckle}}}
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
I fear you're right. Ron Paul would most likely win against O'bungler, but the pubbies aren't about to nominate anyone pro-American. They're having so much fun whining about Obama being a Muslim Marxist, that they're looking forward to four more years of it.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Translation: Only 17% of people are awake. The MSM pushes the lies to keep 'OUR' whore in power, who is somehow better than 'THEIR' whore... What a bunch of shit. All the bailouts, all the scandals and the graft, all the blatant CORRUPTION at the highest levels of government still exist, thus the problems still exist, and there has been no "recovery." More hype, more bread-and-circuses, more distractions to keep the publick from waking up to the fact that they're being fucking FLEECED by thieves. The ONLY thing that will stop this mess, is when American citizens take up arms, and burn all the thieves down. I used to think the parasites would fight back... but they won't. They'll be too weak, too afraid, to openly fight back. They'll happily cooperate with the police-state, turning in their neighbors and friends for a few measly crumbs of bread... Eventually (if they're not killed for cooperating with the enemy), they'll vanish and wait until they can start bleeding the system again, in the future.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” -- Samuel Adams --
But Mr. Obama’s overall job approval rating, considered the most important barometer of his hopes for a second term, has moved into positive territory for the first time in seven months. Some 48% approve of his handling of the presidency, while 46% disapprove.
#2. To: Brian S, *Ron Paul for President* (#0)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: hondo68 (#2)
Oilbomber only looks good when he's standing next to Newt and Mitts.
#4. To: Brian S, *Ron Paul for President*, *Yukon neo-Progressive Vermin* (#3)
(Edited)
Well he will have no problems come November then, eh?
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#5. To: Brian S (#0)
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows a significant uptick, to 30% from 22% in December, in the proportion of Americans who believe the country is heading “in the right direction. “ Similarly, the proportion of Americans who believe the economy will improve in the next year has risen to 37%, up from 30% in December. Since October, the proportion who expect the economy to get worse in the next year has fallen by roughly half, to 17%.
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