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 |
Right Direction |
45% |
40% |
36% |
14% |
Wrong Direction |
47% |
48% |
45% |
70% |
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
Note methodology:
A sampling of Zogby International’s online panel, which is representative of the adult population of the US, was invited to participate. Slight weights were added region, party, age, race, religion, gender, education to more accurately reflect the population. The margin of error is +/- 1.5 percentage points. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups.
Under 50? Wow. Guess he’ll be doing another round of TV appearances.
This is a Zogby “poll”....
Ignore it.......he’s in the bag for Obama.
When everyone’s utility bills quadruple, those numbers will be much lower.
Lots of people claim to be Christians, who actually are not.
Zogby Interactive polls are not real polls. People sign up on the internet and are randomly asked to respond.
How you assure your population’s credibility with that, I don’t know, but it’s not a real poll, folks.
IOW, Obama is really in the mid or lower 30's now.
True but some congressmen who will be up for re-election soon, do/will care.
Look what's happening to Dodd and Spechter.
An online poll. How quaint.
However it is true, as long as Obama can find an audience somewhere that adores him, he doesn't care what polls say. So he will keep going out there to get his "fix" of adoration. It is one of his narcissistic traits -- Believe only in what you pretend you are, and then have others believe that and follow you. Those who don't believe, don't matter...they are inconsequential.
Because they do not have a clue what is going on,IMO.
Maybe they think it’s going in the right direction with respect to the marxist president faltering...?
Agree. But somehow Zogby claims the margin of error is +/- 1.5%.
Trend is not odumbos friend
He’s not going to get any credibility by saying the margin is +/- 25% is he? :-)
Why, it's almost as if he were biased.
I despise Obama just as much as the next guy, but I think Zogby is smoking crack. Still, there is no question the shine is coming off the messiah’s crown.
Well, at least the “not sure” column is decreasing!
QUESTION: What percentage of people are surprised that, ooops, the tax cuts for 95% of all Americans is not in Barry's budget proposal?
ANSWER: ZERO, since the first black President reneged on the "middle class tax cuts" in the same way in 1993.
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