Poll: Obama gets favorable rating on financial crisis
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Fifty one percent of Americans surveyed Tuesday said they approve of Democrat Barack Obama’s handling of efforts to pass a Wall Street financial rescue plan compared to only 42 percent who approve of Republican John McCain’s role.
The findings are part of a new USA Today/Gallup national telephone survey of 1,021 adults. The sampling error was plus or minus three percentage points.
McCain received a 42 percent disapproval rating for his role while Obama’s disapproval rating was 10 percentage points lower at 32 percent.
Those surveyed gave a 45 percent disapproval rating to Republican congressional leaders and a 43 percent negative rating to Democratic congressional leaders.
President Bush fared the worse, with a 57 percent disapproval rating for his role.
The House members who voted against the legislation Monday received only a 37 percent disapproval rating. In fact, 47 percent of the people surveyed indicated they approved of the action taken by lawmakers who helped defeat the bill.
But Americans think Congress does need to act.
Only five percent of those surveyed said the economy can survive without any major problems if Congress fails to pass a rescue package. Twenty two percent said a failure to act could lead to a depression. Thirty four percent indicated it would result in a severe and prolonged recession and 31 percent said it would cause “major problems.’’
Only 16 percent said their personal financial situation has not been impacted by the events of the last two weeks.
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This is the video youtube keeps trying to shut down. PLEASE PASS IT ON! This puts the whole financial mess in perspective!
Of all the nonsensical polls to date, this one has to rank near the top.
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YEAH WHAT’DYA THINK OF THE ‘FLY SWATTER-n-CHIEF the OBAMA’ NOW THAT HE HAS SOLD OUT TO GOLDMAN-SUCKS AND THE REST OF THE ‘MOB’??? Quite the jerk ain’t he this BLACK PUNK CHICAGO COMMIE with his BAIL-OUTS of BANKS connected with GOLDMAN-SUCKS and the other BULLY BOYS on the street while telling everyone else we have to cut-back!!!
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