MAJORITY HAVE LITTLE FAITH IN OBAMA’S HANDLING ECONOMY – POLL
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 8, 2011 – 10:02 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – One year before voters decide whether to re-elect
U.S. President Barack Obama to a second term, a majority have little
faith in his handling of the economy but he still leads his Republican
rivals, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released
on Monday, November 7.
Nearly three-quarters of respondents said Obama’s administration had
fallen short on the economy, on improving oversight of Wall Street
and the banks and on the federal budget deficit.
Most of the respondents said the United States was headed in the wrong
direction and just 25 percent said they believe the U.S. economy will
improve in the next 12 months, the poll found.
According to the poll, Obama’s job-approval rating stands at 44
percent. Fifty-one percent said they disapprove of the way the
President is doing his job.
Not all of the poll findings were bad for Obama. Fifty-two percent
of respondents approve of his handling of foreign-policy and 71
percent support his decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq
by this December.
Obama continues to run ahead of the Republican presidential
front-runners in the 2012 White House race, according to the poll.
In hypothetical general-election match-ups, Obama leads
formerMassachusetts governor Mitt Romney 49 percent to 43 percent
and he leads businessman Herman Cain by 15 points, 53 percent to
38 percent.
However, Obama’s lead narrows in a two-way contest against a generic
Republican. Forty-five percent said they would “probably vote”
for Obama while 42 percent said they would “probably vote” for the
Republican presidential nominee.
The poll of 1,000 people was conducted November 2-5 and has a margin
of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, Reuters reported.
From: Baghdasarian