Posted on 03/25/2009 4:09:59 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Those Saying U.S. Headed in Right Direction Continue to Increase, Now 45%
However, Obama's Job Performance Drops Under 50%
UTICA, NY - A March 20-23 Zogby Interactive survey shows 45% of likely voters believe the nation is headed in the right direction, a gain of five points from a similar survey completed on March 5. At the beginning of the year, only 14% held that positive view.
However, President Barack Obama's ratings for job performance and favorability did not improve over earlier this month. In the most recent survey, 49% rate his job performance as excellent or good and 50% as fair or poor (less than 1% were not sure.) That is a dip of three points from the previous poll. The percentages who feel very or somewhat favorable toward Obama remained unchanged between the two polls, with 55% now and 56% in the previous poll.
There are still huge partisan differences in opinions about Obama. For example, 91% of Democrats rate Obama favorably, compared to 14% of Republicans. On Obama's job performance, 87% of Democrats grade it as excellent or good, compared to 9% of Republicans.
Sample size of the survey was 4,523, with a margin of error of +/- 1.5%. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups.
This table shows attitudes about the nation's direction from Zogby Interactive polls this year:
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Is the nation headed in the right or wrong direction? |
March 23 |
March 5 |
Jan. 26 |
Jan. 8 |
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Right Direction |
45% |
40% |
36% |
14% |
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Wrong Direction |
47% |
48% |
45% |
70% |
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Not Sure |
8% |
12% |
19% |
16% |
The movement toward "right direction" from January 8, prior to the Obama Inauguration, to January 26 came from Obama voters, and that has continued. For example, these are the increases in those choosing "right direction" between the March 5 poll and this most recent one: Democrats +9, Obama voters +8, liberals +7 and African-Americans +13.
There has been virtually no change in the direction question among Republican base voters. Choosing "right direction" in the most recent survey were: Republicans 9%, McCain voters 5% and conservatives 6%. Among Born-again Christians, 32% chose "right direction", an increase of 6 points from Jan. 26.
For a methodology statement on this poll, please visit:
http://www.zogby.com/methodology/readmeth.cfm?ID=1394
Wiat until everyone finds out he is an illegal alien.
It has to be even worse. The media keeps propping the out of control spender up as he works to bankrupt the country.
How on earth did the percentage of people who believe the country is NOW going in the right direction increase by 31% in just the last three months?
From Mars
Can anyone tell me why 32% of born-again Christians in the survey think the country is headed in the right direction? It doesn’t make much sense to me.
The 31% are anarchists?
I caught a part of a quote reported, iirc, by ABC news: Rahm Emanuel is to Barack Obama what Howrd K. Stern was to Anna Nicole Smith.
9 weeks down.
199 to go.
Maybe they’re looking forward to the Rapture.....
>>>>> Can anyone tell me why 32% of born-again Christians <<<<<
Easy.
They’re Democrats and Huckster Gantry supporters.
Because they have no idea who it is they are supposed to believe in.
Obama is irrelevent, where’s the Zogby poll for TOTUS?
Hmm, Zogby has Obama under 50% *PING*!
Though I suspect this may be Zogby trying to gain publicity.
Man that’s an 0bummer.
Repeat after me everyone, “Obaman doesn’t CARE what his poll numbers are!!!”
*chuckle*
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