38% Give Obama Positive Marks for Deficit Reduction
Despite the partial government shutdown and the debt ceiling debate, voters give President Obama better marks for his handling of deficit reduction issues, but a plurality still rates his performance in this area as poor.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 38% of Likely U.S. Voters give Obama good or excellent ratings for his handling of deficit reduction. That’s up six points from last month and ties the high reached early in the year. Forty-six percent (46%), though, still rate him poorly in this area, down from a high of 50%reached in July. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on October 8-9, 2013 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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