The nation is close to evenly split in its assessment of the president's policies to date, and there is great intensity on both sides of the debate with dwindling numbers in the middle.I hope Obama's declining popularity is due to a recognition of bad policy choices in collusion with the Democratic congress, rather than Americans taking the deranged right seriously...
Those are the chief findings of the latest NPR poll of registered voters conducted nationwide Wednesday through Sunday by a bipartisan team. The pollsters found 53 percent approving of the president's handling of his job, while 42 percent disapproved — the narrowest gap of the Obama presidency to date. Most of the approving group said they approved strongly, and an even greater majority of the disapproving group said they disapproved strongly.
Poll respondents liked a Democratic statement on solving health care problems better than a Republican statement (51 percent to 42 percent). However, when asked about the plan now moving through Congress, a plurality of 47 percent was opposed and 42 percent said they were in favor, based on what they had heard about the plan so far.
FCC reinstates net neutrality
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The 3-2 vote is a victory for Democrats, who have long supported stronger
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i suspect it mainly has to do with the fecklessness dems in congress have, by association, smeared on him, as well as the Obama's remarkable refusals to break with Bush-era Gitmo/Iraq/National Security/etc. policies in key instances. Folks voted to strongly rebuke the last 8 years of rampant illegality but it looks like we got a smart guy with good intentions who appears to sometimes get knuckled under by the entrenched interests and power centers who keep Washington a cesspool of cronyism, corruption and status-quoism. my judgment will still be reserved until another year or two down the road but Obama is showing a number of disquieting signals and the Dems in Congress are proving true a lot of snide things said about them over the years (e.g. no message control, rampant internal backbiting, spinelessness in the face of any conservative talking point, etc.)
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