Posted on 03/30/2011 7:14:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans have grown increasingly less likely to view President Obama as a strong and decisive leader since he took office. Roughly half now believe this aptly describes, him compared with 60% a year ago and 73% in April 2009.
Obama's ratings on being a strong and decisive leader are down a total of 21 percentage points since taking office, compared with a 15-point decline on understanding Americans' daily problems and a 9-point decline in sharing their values. Obama's overall job approval rating declined 16 points over the same time period.
The March 25-27 poll also asked Americans to rate Obama on two other dimensions not yet tested since he took office. Sixty-one percent believe Obama is honest and trustworthy, while 36% say he has a clear plan for solving the country's problems -- marking the high and low scores of the five characteristics tested in the poll.
All party groups are less likely to consider Obama a strong leader than they were a year ago. Now, under half of independents (49%) believe Obama is a strong and decisive leader, compared with 56% in 2010. The vast majority of Democrats continue to believe he is a strong leader, but that, too, is down from 89% to 81%. Republicans' views of Obama's leadership, the least positive of the three groups, are down the most since last year (32% to 19%).
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Jeez!....How long did that take?...Wake up America!
Strong or weak is part of the problem. The other part is that he leads where we don’t want to go.
The US has not seen such a weak leader since Jimmy Carter whom Obama seems to emulate with every move he makes and with every speech he gives.
The trend is our friend ...I hope !
less likely than what? LOL!
Gallups headline is soo funny “less likely” how about “don’t find him a strong leader”
Somehow, saying “I told you so” to everyone I know gives me no comfort at all.
This "weak" leader, along with his progressive republican and democrat accomplices in congress, has orchestrated, and pushed through, the largest makeover of any government in history. We are now entrenched socialist with the government owning/controlling most of our economy. No president has ever been more successful at totally changing our entire Country than Obama.
Weak leader? Right.
Despite all the help from the FRAUDCASTERS the truth is seeping out to the general population.
Obama is anything but decisive he rolls the dice on every problem he’s clueless and dangerous.
Well, there is one country that he would like to defeat militarily, but that country is us. Other than that, he’s a pussycat. Without the cat.
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