Forty-four percent (44%) of U.S. voters now say President Obama is doing a good or excellent job handling national security issues as he prepares to discipline his top commander in Afghanistan for insubordination.
A disappointing government jobs report last month shows there’s still a long road ahead to righting the nation’s economic problems, and voters are slowly shifting the blame for those problems away from the previous administration.
Though the vast majority of voters remain confident that Elena Kagan will be confirmed by the Senate to the U.S. Supreme Court, the number who oppose her confirmation has risen to its highest level to date.
Voters express only modest concern and hardly any surprise about the secret job offers made by the Obama White House to Democratic politicians in Colorado and Pennsylvania in hopes of getting them to drop their primary challenges of incumbent senators.
There is plenty of chatter in opinion columns and places where political junkies gather about how the Gulf oil spill is hurting public perceptions of President Obama. Some are calling it this president’s Katrina. Others have compared it to the Carter-era hostage crisis.
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
Just as in the case of President Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, there’s little question in voters’ minds at this point that Elena Kagan will be confirmed by the Senate. Both of Obama’s nominees run well ahead of where President George W. Bush’s choices were early in the process.
Voters have an increasingly unfavorable opinion of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan but are more convinced than ever that she will be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
The number of voters who blame the Bush administration for the nation's current economic problems has reached its lowest level measured to date. Trust in President Obama's economic judgment has hit a new low as well.
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
The Rasmussen Reports Media Meter tracks media coverage of President Obama and other public figures.
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
Many Democrats view the passage of the national health care plan as President Obama's greatest achievement yet in office, but voters for the first time are evenly divided in their assessments of the president's leadership.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of U.S. voters now have a favorable opinion of Michelle Obama, down five points from early February. That includes 32% who view her very favorably.
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
Forty percent (40%) of voters nationwide give President Obama good or excellent marks for leadership. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 41% rate the president's leadership as poor.
While many voters for now at least seem to be punishing incumbent Democrats for the country’s continuing economic problems, most still blame President Bush for getting us in the mess to begin with.
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
Just 19% of voters nationwide believe that President Obama achieved most of his goals during his first year in office. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 70% hold the opposite view and say he did not accomplish those goals.
During his State-of-the-Union address Wednesday night, President Obama spoke about a deficit of trust between the American people and political leaders. New Rasmussen Reports polling on the president’s speech shows just how deep that trust deficit has become.
