He succeeded in what he set out to do: Fundamentally change the United States of America.
Posted on 03/19/2015 11:40:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON (CNN) —As the political world's focus begins to turn to the race to succeed President Barack Obama, a new CNN/ORC poll finds Americans are split over whether Obama's time in office has been a success. But they are now more likely than at any point during his tenure to say things in the country are going well.
In February 2009, shortly after Obama took office, 21% of Americans said things in the country were going well, 79% that they were going badly.
The new poll finds 53% saying things are going well, 46% badly. That's the highest share saying things are going well that CNN/ORC polls have found during Obama's time in office, though it is not significantly higher than the 52% saying things were going well in November.
The rising optimism about how the country is doing comes after several months of strong economic news. The current unemployment rate of 5.5% is the lowest of his presidency, and although average gas prices -- often closely tied with public perceptions of the economy -- are slightly higher than they were a few months ago, they remain lower than they were a year ago.
Assessing Obama's presidency overall, 50% consider his time in office a success, 47% a failure. And for those who say his time in office has been a failure, 37% say that's been because of his own actions, while just 9% attribute it to Congress blocking the President from action.
Perceptions of the success of Obama's presidency after six years in office falls in between ratings of his two immediate predecessors. Just 39% said they considered George W. Bush's presidency a success in January 2007, 55% considered it a failure. Bill Clinton, by contrast, was broadly deemed successful,
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When I read ‘CNN says’ I knew it was BS. Why can’t they just follow the Liar In Chief and lie big and make it 90% “success”?
Maybe they polled everyone in a couple of bars in the roughest welfare neighborhood of a major city at 10PM...
He succeeded in what he set out to do: Fundamentally change the United States of America.
He’s a success. He’s made great progress at what 19 muslims started 14 years ago.
RE: If you depend on the taxes that people with a job pay...he’s brilliant!
Romney’s observation about the 47% is correct. Add the other 3% bleeding heart working and rich liberals and you DO get 50%.
This country has been divided along those lines and it remains to be seen which half wil be more motivated to vote and turn out in 2016.
Exactly
RE: Maybe they polled everyone in a couple of bars in the roughest welfare neighborhood of a major city at 10PM...
And with that, he could only get 50%?
They polled CNN employees and orcs.
LOL
If you believe any CNN poll, you are either high on reefer or insane!!! Have ya seen the viewer numbers for the Chris Cuomo morning show....you can count ‘em on ten fingers!!!
Well, maybe at 10PM only 50% were that drunk...
Remember, 47% of Americans are on the government payroll.
RE: Remember, 47% of Americans are on the government payroll.
Yes, and as I posted above, it is not hard to get 3% who are not on the government payroll and who are bleeding heart libs nonetheless.
If Julia were white.
All that the 50% figure tells us is that at least 50% of citizens and illegal immigrants have never been taught about the federal government’s constitutionallly limited powers.
Things are not going well.
Period.
Full stop.
End of story.
Things will get better, no thanks to Hussein.
They only polled LGBT welfare recipients!
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