Is this Zimbabwe or America's future voters....at their quasi-secure polling location?
Posted on 06/04/2009 8:59:11 AM PDT by cbkaty
For the second straight week, 37% of likely voters say the United States is heading in the right direction.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 55% believe the nation is heading down the wrong track. That’s down from 57% last week.
While both numbers have remained fairly consistent over the past few weeks, the percentage who say the nation is heading in the right direction is up 10 points from the week Barack Obama was inaugurated as President in January and up 16 points from the week he was elected in November.
Sixty-five percent (65%) of Democratic voters say the nation is heading in the right direction, up four points from last week. Just 12% of Republican voters agree, down from 14% a week ago. Twenty-eight percent (28%) of voters not affiliated with either party answered right direction, up one point this week.
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While 40% of women say the country is heading in the right direction, 35% of men agree.
The latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot shows support for both Republicans and Democrats has fallen this week.
Voters now are evenly divided as to whether the President Obama should push for health care reform now or wait until the economy is stronger. Among the President’s announced budget priorities, voters now put more emphasis on deficit cutting over health care reform.
While the economy remains the top issue among voters, health care and national security issues have dropped in importance. Unaffiliated voters now see government ethics and corruption as most important, while Republicans and Democrats place the issue second.
Only 21% of voters nationwide support a plan for the government to bail out GM as part of a structured bankruptcy plan to keep the troubled auto giant in business.
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Hopefully they’ll be allowed to vote in future elections.
I guess 45% must think bankrupting the nation, losing jobs, socializing the entire economy and becoming Islamic nation is the right direction....
Its only natural that a new President will be given a honeymoon. What is striking to me is how feeble this honeymoon seems to be. Its like driving from the wedding to the rent-by-the-hour motel down the street.
Is this Zimbabwe or America's future voters....at their quasi-secure polling location?
America, still on the wrong track, except for Gitmo.
apparently those half million newly unemployed are now saying “right track”. at least while the checks still coming
those are either going to be the bread lines or the healthcare lines
35% think we’re on the right track. Yet he has a 65% approval rating.
Makes no sense.
Usually the right track/wrong track is somewhat aligned with a president’s approval ratings, +/- 10 points.
[Its only natural that a new President will be given a honeymoon.]
Everyone is having fun until the Hummer drives off the cliff at Big Sur.
The structural problems are so wide and deep that I cannot imagine Obama being anything but a source of derision a year or two from now. Patience, the ingredients are already in the cake, and it is just starting to bake.
I recall a "magic negro" quote....
----David Ehrenstein, a writer who happens to be black and liberal, wrote an opinion piece in March 2007 in the Los Angeles Times called "Obama the 'Magic Negro.'"
Makes no sense.
Obama is getting the benefit of affirmative action on his approval ratings.
Respondents don't want to criticize Obama because he's black. But affirmative action doesn't extend to his policies.
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