In new poll: Majority of voters believe Obama has changed the country for the worse! Do you agree or disagree with this poll?
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Two-thirds of likely voters say President Obama has kept his 2008 campaign promise to change America — but it’s changed for the worse, according to a sizable majority.
A new poll for The Hill found 56 percent of likely voters believe Obama’s first term has transformed the nation in a negative way, compared to 35 percent who believe the country has changed for the better under his leadership.
The results signal broad voter unease with the direction the nation has taken under Obama’s leadership and present a major challenge for the incumbent Democrat as he seeks reelection this fall.
Conducted for The Hill by Pulse Opinion Research, the poll comes in the wake of last month’s Supreme Court decision that upheld the primary elements of Obama’s signature healthcare legislation.
It found 68 percent of likely voters — regardless of whether they approve or disapprove of Obama — believe the president has substantially transformed the country since his 2009 inauguration.
The feeling that Obama has changed the country for the worse is strongest among Republicans, at 91 percent, compared to 71 percent of Democrats who support Obama’s brand of change.
Strikingly, 1-in-5 Democrats say they feel Obama has changed the United States for the worse.
Compared to the sentiment about Obama’s impact, fewer people see presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney as a candidate who will change the country dramatically if elected.
Still, 50 percent of people think Romney will bring a “significant” level of change — a finding that may reflect the desire among anti-Obama voters for a reversal of the president’s policies.
Debate about Obama’s first-term legacy has intensified since the Supreme Court ruled the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate to be constitutional.
The healthcare legislation, once fully implemented, would usher in the most sweeping changes to the nation’s social safety net since the 1960s.
To Obama’s supporters, the ruling was a validation of his 2008 campaign theme of “change we can believe in.” At that time, Obama hinted at his ambitions to become a transformative president in the mold of Ronald Reagan.
“I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it,” he told the Reno Gazette-Journal in January 2008.
Beyond the healthcare law, Obama won passage of the Dodd-Frank financial industry reforms, generally viewed as the biggest Wall Street regulatory changes since the 1930s.
In the absence of major immigration legislation, Obama recently eased deportation rules for young illegal immigrants brought to the country as children.
Obama’s ambitions for big change fell short in other areas. He has been unable to pass climate change legislation or repeal the Bush-era tax rates.
On social issues, Obama recently became the first president to endorse gay marriage.
Independent of voter opinions about how the country has changed, The Hill Poll found an overwhelming majority of voters — 89 percent — view the choice between Obama and Romney as important in terms of the future impact on the country.
Almost half (47 percent) say they are paying more attention to this year’s election than the 2008 vote. Republicans are generally paying more attention than Democrats — 56 percent to 44 percent — to the 2012 campaign compared to 2008.
Among centrists, views are evenly split on how Obama has changed the country — with 40 percent saying the United States is better today and 42 percent saying it is worse off. Eighty percent of liberals think Obama has changed the country for the better.
There is a marked difference of opinion along racial lines, with just 29 percent of whites saying Obama has changed the country for the better compared to 92 percent of blacks.
The poll was conducted among 1,000 likely voters on July 5 and has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
Link to view poll internal data.
http://thehill.com/images/stories/news/2012/07_july/hill_poll...
From: The Hill.com
By: Sheldon Alberts
Link to view poll internal data.
http://thehill.com/images/stories/news/2012/07_july/hill_poll...
From: The Hill.com
By: Sheldon Alberts
Read More: http://thehill.com/polls/236627-hill-poll-majority...
Top Opinion
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Kat 2012/07/09 20:00:59I agree with this poll because....
Wayne Allyn Root’s statement below has been “Correctly Attributed.”
The link to Snopes.com is at the end of his statement.
If Obama is re-elected in 2012, the US is finished.
The following is in simple language that everyone can understand.
Not the gibberish that our government keeps telling people.
Please read this carefully and make sure you keep this message going.
This needs to be emailed to everyone in the USA ...
OBAMA’S COLLEGE CLASSMATE SPEAKS OUT
By Wayne Allyn Root
Barack Hussein Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent.
To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. Economy to create systemic
failure, economic crisis and social chaos – thereby destroying
capitalism and our country from within.
Barack Hussein Obama was my college classmate.
(Columbia University, class of '83).
He is a devout Muslim; do not be fooled. Look at
his Czars.... Anti-business…anti-American.
As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Barack Hussien Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University ... They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands.
Add up the clues below. Taken ...
Wayne Allyn Root’s statement below has been “Correctly Attributed.”
The link to Snopes.com is at the end of his statement.
If Obama is re-elected in 2012, the US is finished.
The following is in simple language that everyone can understand.
Not the gibberish that our government keeps telling people.
Please read this carefully and make sure you keep this message going.
This needs to be emailed to everyone in the USA ...
OBAMA’S COLLEGE CLASSMATE SPEAKS OUT
By Wayne Allyn Root
Barack Hussein Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent.
To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. Economy to create systemic
failure, economic crisis and social chaos – thereby destroying
capitalism and our country from within.
Barack Hussein Obama was my college classmate.
(Columbia University, class of '83).
He is a devout Muslim; do not be fooled. Look at
his Czars.... Anti-business…anti-American.
As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Barack Hussien Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University ... They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands.
Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival... And can be counted on to always vote for even bigger government.
Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.
Universal health care!
The health care bill had very little to do with health care.
It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health
care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will
join government employee unions).
Obama doesn’t care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt.
What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government.
Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression?
Cap and trade!
Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and
trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with
redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal
payoff to Obama’s biggest contributors.
Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power.
The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama “spread the wealth around.”
Make Puerto Rico a state. Why?
Who’s asking for a 51st state? Who’s asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression?
Certainly not American taxpayers! But this has been Barack Hussien Obama’s plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressmen and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.
(This will tip the balance of those living off the government to
more than those who must pay for it; and we’re done for)
Legalize 12 million illegal Mexican immigrants.
Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care
alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America.
But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can
be counted on to support big government.
Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps,
free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security...
(see note above re: Puerto Rico)
Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go?
It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country.
It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues.
It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions).
A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues).
All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America ...
The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama,
the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful.
The ends justify the means.
Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put
the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income,
punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama).
Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government.
Barack Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.
With the acts outlined above, Barack Hussein Obama and his regime have created a vast and
rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class
of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.
Add it up and you’ve got the perfect Marxist scheme – all devised by my Columbia
University college classmate Barack Hussein Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan...
http://www.snopes.com/politic...
Last point: think about what this designed “rule of the rabble” will do to
anyone successful…and everyone receiving this is. What will your lives be
like under communism? The time to fight this abomination is now…
I agree because this asshat of a president has done more than I can remember, both in my life and in my studies as a graduated history major and history teacher, to weaken if not completely destroy our freedoms, to defecate on our Constitution, and to open the doors for welfare handouts and illegals who, let's just face it, DO NOT belong here. And the thing that is almost as bad as that is that he has done so so charismatically that he is surrounded by seemingly retarded followers who worship him as though eh were Jim Jones. Everything he does seems to be tailor-made to put America at the bottom of the world. He apologizes for us, he undermines our sovereignty, he allows scumbags to disregard the border... ANd all the while, his small-minded followers sing his praises like he just got done turning Evian to wine. This guy is bad, he's a liar, he's a foreigner (which is fine, unless you are POTUS), he's a socialist, and he needs to go. The sooner the better.
I have NEVER seen a President,, not a Republican nor a Democrat,, that has had SO many people making SO many excuses for SO many failures then I have seen being done on a DAILY basis with THIS President..
Even the MURDER of a BORDER Agent is NO BIG DEAL according to Obama Supporters..
He was Born and Raised by Communists & Mentored By A Marxist ( Frank Marshall Davis )
I miss Clinton.