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
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The poll did not ask whether "Obama has changed the country for the worse". The poll asked whether "Obama’s first term has transformed the nation in a negative way." While thanks to President Obama we have avoided a second Great Depression, saved the American automobile industry, ended one war, avoided a second war, restored our nation's prestige and respect in the eyes of the world, helped spread Democracy in many countries that have never seen it before, protected the rights of women, minorities, the elderly, and every other group that isn't rich white conservative males, provided health care to 30 million additional Americans, and taken out the most dangerous terrorist in the world along with most of his senior supporters, all of those historic gains have been offset by the continued destructive tactics of the Republican party and their astroturf attack dog the Tea Party. Thanks to the Right Wing, the unemployment rate is at least two points higher than it would be right now but for their obstructionism. Thanks to the Right Wing, this nation suffered the first lowering of its credit rating in history. Thanks to the Right Wing, the rights of American citizens to ...
The poll did not ask whether "Obama has changed the country for the worse". The poll asked whether "Obama’s first term has transformed the nation in a negative way." While thanks to President Obama we have avoided a second Great Depression, saved the American automobile industry, ended one war, avoided a second war, restored our nation's prestige and respect in the eyes of the world, helped spread Democracy in many countries that have never seen it before, protected the rights of women, minorities, the elderly, and every other group that isn't rich white conservative males, provided health care to 30 million additional Americans, and taken out the most dangerous terrorist in the world along with most of his senior supporters, all of those historic gains have been offset by the continued destructive tactics of the Republican party and their astroturf attack dog the Tea Party. Thanks to the Right Wing, the unemployment rate is at least two points higher than it would be right now but for their obstructionism. Thanks to the Right Wing, this nation suffered the first lowering of its credit rating in history. Thanks to the Right Wing, the rights of American citizens to vote has never been more imperiled. Thanks to the Right Wing, the rights of women, working Americans, hispanics, blacks, muslims, the elderly, the disabled and the poor are under seige like never before. So the conclusion inescapably seems to be that while President Obama has done more good for this nation than just about every one of his predecessors, those gains have been counterbalanced by the increasingly divisive and destructive tactics of the extreme Right.
This poll is bogus- they surveyed 1000 voters. There are close to 180 million registered voters in the US. The sample size is laughably small
Obama even wnats the rich to have higher taxes, which will only create less jobs and increase the debt even more.
it is Obamas failed policies that are also contributing to the debt, ad he has done absoultely nothing to lower it.
There is no evidence that raising taxes on the richest Americans has any impact on job creation, and we do know it reduces the overall debt level. We also know very well that lowering taxes on the richest Americans, as Romney plans to do, not only does not create jobs but accelerates debt accumulation.
President Obama does not have any failed policies. The stimulus created over 4 million jobs so far, and over time that also means debt reduction because that's 4 million more people paying taxes and 4 million less people who need government assistance.
Right now the biggest impediment to debt reduction is Republican refusal to raise revenues. We already have a corporate world where they are paying the lowest effective rate in the industrialized world and some of the most profitable corporations in this country are paying no taxes at all, and we have a tax structure so riddled with loopholes that Warren Buffett's secretary pays taxes at a higher rate than he does. The last thing we need to do right now is lower taxes even further. Roll back the ta...
There is no evidence that raising taxes on the richest Americans has any impact on job creation, and we do know it reduces the overall debt level. We also know very well that lowering taxes on the richest Americans, as Romney plans to do, not only does not create jobs but accelerates debt accumulation.
President Obama does not have any failed policies. The stimulus created over 4 million jobs so far, and over time that also means debt reduction because that's 4 million more people paying taxes and 4 million less people who need government assistance.
Right now the biggest impediment to debt reduction is Republican refusal to raise revenues. We already have a corporate world where they are paying the lowest effective rate in the industrialized world and some of the most profitable corporations in this country are paying no taxes at all, and we have a tax structure so riddled with loopholes that Warren Buffett's secretary pays taxes at a higher rate than he does. The last thing we need to do right now is lower taxes even further. Roll back the tax code to its pre-Reagan levels and keep them there, and you'll never have another debt crisis.
The debt is at its slowest rate? It took 20 years for it to rise 5 trillion but only 10 to rise by 10 trillion. Who raised the debt does matter, but what I meant was that Bush is not in charge and Obama should at least be lowering the debt a little.
It does not take evidence to know that raising the taxes on the rich is wrong, it justs takes common sense. The rich are the job creators, and of you tax them then they will have less money to pay for more workers. You should not lower them either, but have a decnt amount of taxes so the government can have money and the job creators can have money.
President Obama has many, many failed policies. I do not know if he really created those jobs in the private sector, but I do know that the PUBLIC sector has lost several jobs.
Right now the nigest impediment to debt reduction is Obamas refusal to lower taxes on businesses. Once the businesses have money then the government will have money.
Have the same policies as Reagan and you will be one of the greatest presidents.
And the only way Reagan managed to do that was by TRIPLING THE NATIONAL DEBT. President Obama has only increased the national debt by about $1.6 trillion dollars, an increase of about 12%. He has slowed spending to its lowest level since before Reagan came along.
President Obama would LOVE to reduce the debt. You know how you do that? BY RAISING REVENUE. But we can't do that, because the rich are protected by the Right Wing, so the only way to reduce our debt is to take food out of the mouths of starving children (which of course the Right Wing is happy to do).
And if you truly believe that lowering taxes on the rich creates jobs, then where are they? The Bush tax giveaways began in 2001, yet by the time he left office we had a net LOSS of jobs, despite starting two wars to create thousands of "job opportunuties".
Okay, let's say Obama did create jobs, what thre hell is the point in creating jobs if no one can have them. The unemployment is still over 8% and has been for 3 and a half years.
And the only way to END A RECESSION AND BRING THE UNEMPLYMENT DOWN, is to spend a lot of money. Reagan increased the debt by 2-3 trillion in 8 years, Obama increased it by 1.6 trillion in 3 years and allowed the debt to riased by another 4 trillion.
President Obama would HATE for the debt to go down. You know how to do that? By LOWERING TAXES ON BUSINESSES. Obama won't do that becuase him and the rest of the democrats only want money.
So the only way to reduce the debt is to take the money of the citezins and starve our children, which the LWNJ's and Obama loves doing that.
And if you truly beleiev higher taxes make jobs then, where are they? Obama began taxing businesses, yet now there is a LARGE LOSS OF JOBS. Despite continuijng a war and spending out tax payer money to create "job opportunities".
I said to have the rich pay the same as us, so the government can have money and the JOB CREATERS can have money to... I don't know, create jobs.
You don't lower taxes like Bush, nor do you raise the taxes like Obama.
What are you laughing about. You know better than most of these people that the "Obama spent 5 trillion" or "Obama spent more than all the other Presidents combined" is bullsh*t.
That person is laughing becuase that person knows that you are full of bulll cr-p
Yes, a list of propaganda can indeed go on and on . . .
Yes, your list of bull crap could go on and on...
One charge isn't that he DID it, it's that he "WANTS to", and the other charge being false "doesn't matter".
Do you even see yourself? "Look it idiot"? Maybe it would have helped if you had stayed in school.
He has not helped, nor does he want to. I never said it did not matter at all , but that Obama is the one in charge so he should be at least lowering the debt. You are blaiming Bush, but not even considering blaiming Obama when he is doing worse than Bush. Bush is not in charge anymore, that is what I meant by "it does not matter".
Do you even see yourself? You are correcting a typo on a comment idiot. Maybe it would help if you were not such a moron.
I'll type slowly for you: the president doesn't control Wall Street . . . Wall Stree controls the president.
Do you want the president who helps the control, or the one who fights the control? That's your choice.
I'll type it for you slowly: Obama SUCKS.
I want the one who helps the control, unfrotunetely Obama does not do that because the debt is now over 15 trillion and has not even gone down once.
Do you want Obama, who allowed the debt to rise by 5 trillion, let the unemployment stay above 8%, and lied many, many times, OR do you want Romney, who will at least try to do good and has not lied at all? Your choice
Expand gun rights? To allow us to bring guns to National Parks? Not only is that completely stupid, but it does not prove you right.
With Obama taking our guns away those criminas can bring their trusty pistol along to visit your house and see your nice home before they murder you and steal your things.