OBAMA RATING DOWN IN CALIFORNIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
September 14, 2011 – 15:45 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Concern about the economy has pushed President
Barack Obama’s approval rating below 50 percent in California, a state
assumed to be an easy win for him in next year’s presidential election.
Obama carried California in the 2008 election but Field Poll findings
released on Wednesday show he is having trouble in the most populous
U.S. state, where most disapprove of his handling of the economy
and just 46 percent of registered voters now support his performance
as president.
It is the first time since Obama took office that his approval rating
has slipped below 50 percent in the poll, which showed an 8 percentage
point decline since June.
The percentage of California voters disinclined to re-elect Obama was
44 percent – compared with 40 percent in June and March – while 49
percent are inclined to vote for him next year, unchanged from June
and March.
“Most would consider this a reliably blue (Democratic) state and if
he’s having problems here it’s fairly ominous for his standing in the
rest of the nation,” said Mark DiCamillo, director of the Field Poll.
The poll showed 54 percent of California voters disapprove of how
Obama is handling the economy, compared with 40 percent who approve
and 6 percent with no opinion.
The findings are based on a telephone survey conducted from September
1 to 12 of 1,001 registered voters. The estimated maximum sampling
error for the survey’s results is plus or minus 3.2 percentage points
at a 95 percent confidence level, Reuters reported.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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