Back to the original question, who here disapproves of Obama's handling of the transition so far, and why?
On Dec 9, 8:30�am, wncs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WOW! So who is in the other 21% and what are your specific reasons for > not approving? > ************ > > Poll: 79% approve of way Obama is handling transition > Story Highlights > CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey finds only 18 percent > disapprove > > Obama's numbers eclipse those of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton in > same period > > CNN's Schneider: Type of figure seen when nation rallies for leader > after disaster > > Michelle Obama and Joe Biden also garner favorable opinions in poll > > From Paul Steinhauser > CNN > WASHINGTON (CNN) -- -- With six weeks before taking office, President- > elect Barack Obama is having one heck of a honeymoon, a new national > poll suggests. > > Nearly eight in 10 Americans questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research > Corporation survey out Tuesday morning are giving the president-elect > the thumbs up when it comes to his handling of the transition. > > Seventy-nine percent approve of Obama's performance so far during > transition, with 18 percent disapproving. > > Obama's approval rating is 14 points higher than the approval rating > for President-elect George Bush in 2001 and 17 points higher than > President-elect Clinton's rating in 1992, CNN Polling Director Keating > Holland said. > > Obama's current approval rating is also more than 50 points higher > than President Bush's current approval rating, which now stands at 28 > percent --- with 71 percent disapproving of the way Bush is handling > his job as president. > > "An Obama job approval rating of 79 percent -- that's the sort of > rating you see when the public rallies around a leader after a > national disaster," said Bill Schneider, CNN's senior political > analyst. "To many Americans, the Bush administration was a national > disaster." > > The poll indicates that 79 percent of the public thinks Obama will do > a good job as president -- up 4 percentage points from last month. > Eighteen percent think Obama will do a poor job as president, down 3 > points from November. > > And 78 percent of those questioned said they believe Obama will be a > uniter -- 20 points higher than those who felt the same way about then > President-elect Bush in 2000. Twenty percent say Obama will be a > divider, 16 points lower than those who said the same about Bush. > > "Bush came in promising to be a uniter, not a divider. That's a > promise Bush failed to deliver -- as he himself acknowledged last week > in an interview with ABC News when he said that one of his big > disappointments is that the tone in Washington got worse rather than > better," Schneider said. > > "Nearly 80 percent describe Obama as a uniter. So far, so good." > > Seventy-six percent of those polled have a favorable opinion of Obama. > "And the president-elect is not the only one who is popular right now. > Sixty-seven percent have a favorable view of Michelle Obama and 56 > percent have a positive view of Vice President-elect Joe Biden," added > Holland. > > The Democratic party continues to be much more popular than the GOP. > Six in 10 have a favorable view of the Democratic Party, while a > majority have an unfavorable opinion of the Republican party. > > The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted December 1-2, > with 1,096 adult Americans interviewed by telephone. The survey's > sampling error is 3 percentage points. > > http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/09/Obama.poll/index.html?eref=rss... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
