Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Only 23% of likely independent voters would vote for Obama again, 36% definitely would not-Bloomberg

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6/22/11, "Obama Gets 30% Certain to Support Re-Election in Economy Poll," Bloomberg, J. Goldman

"Americans are growing more dissatisfied with President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy and say it will be hard to vote to re-elect him without seeing significant progress over the next year and a half....

Only 30 percent of respondents said they are certain to vote for the president and 36 percent said they definitely won’t.

  • Among likely independent voters,
  • only 23 percent said they will back his re-election,
  • while 36 percent said they definitely will look for another candidate.

As far as the economy goes, I don’t see that he has delivered on the change that he promised,” said Sharon Ortiz, a 38-year-old independent voter from Hampton, Virginia, who supported Obama in 2008. “The jobs that he promised -- I haven’t seen it.”...

By a margin of 61 percent to 32 percent, Americans disapprove of the job Obama is doing to tackle the budget deficit. Fifty-seven percent of respondents disapproved of his efforts to create jobs and overall

The poll of 1,000 adults was conducted by Selzer & Co., a Des Moines, Iowa-based firm. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points."...


via RedState.com

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