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Polls Show American Voters Not Confident In Obama And Congress

by Rory Cripps | May 27, 2010 at 07:54 am

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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows President Obama with a negative 16 percent approval rating among likely voters. 26 percent of the nation's voters strongly approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president and 42 percent strongly disapprove.

Overall, 45 percent of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance. 53 percent disapprove.

67 percent of all voters now say the nation is heading down the wrong track, the highest level of pessimism measured since the week prior to passage of the health care bill.

According to Rasmussen, "Support for repeal of the health care plan has jumped to its highest level ever." 63 percent of voters now favor repeal of the plan.

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55 percent of Democrats say the country is heading in the right direction while only 6 percent of Republicans and 20 percent of Independents share that view. 39 percent of Democrats feel the country is heading down the wrong track.

According to pollster Scott Rasmussen, most Americans have “come to believe that the political system is broken, that most politicians are corrupt, and that neither major political party has the answers."

Just 27 percent believe Congress knows what it’s doing when it comes to the economy and 41% say that a group of people randomly selected from the phone book would do a better job than the current Congress.

An overwhelming majority (72%) are not confident in Congress to address the economy. 53 percent of Democrats are confident that Congress can adequately address the economy while only 9 percent of Republicans and 12 percent of Independents share that confidence.

The number of voters who blame the Bush administration for the nation's current economic problems also has reached a new low. Trust in Obama's economic judgment is down to the lowest point since February of last year.

Voters have an increasingly unfavorable opinion of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan but are more convinced than ever that she will be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

48 percent of voters say that the average Tea Party member is closer to their views than President Barack Obama and 44 percent believe the president’s views are closer to their own. Among Independent voters, 50 percent say they’re closer to the Tea Party while 38% side with the President.

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“Unaffiliated voters are continuing the pattern they established in 2006 and 2008 of opposing the party in power,” notes Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports. Last week, Rasmussen Reports released data showing that 47% of voters felt closer to the views of Tea Party members than to Congress. Only 26% felt closer to Congress. Earlier polling found that just 16% of voters nationwide consider themselves part of the Tea Party Movement. However, views of the Tea Party remain more positive than negative among voters.

A new Rasmussen Reports survey of Likely Voters in Arizona finds that 71 percent now favor the immigration law (SB1070) while 24 percent oppose it. Nationally, 55% of voters favor passage of such a law in their state. most Americans don’t believe Mexico wants to stop the illegal flow of its citizens into this country and think America’s southern neighbor should be asked to compensate U.S. taxpayers for costs incurred by illegal immigration.

Most voters continue to say as they have for years that gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers.

Voters across the nation are extremely skeptical about the federal government’s role in the immigration debate. Three-out-of-four voters believe that the federal government is not doing enough to secure the nation’s borders. In fact, 56% believe that the policies of the federal government encourage illegal immigration.

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t k kidwai

at 08:56 on May 27th, 2010

Opinion polls are indicative of what in most cases in untrue.Rapid fluctuations in ratings of the presidents and parties confound the confusion.Trial and error method adopted by Obama has put his admirers and critics both in a quandry.Let us not forget what Dean Igne wrote in an essay"...(H)uman nature is prone to erring,we judge things by fruits rather than by roots".Opinion polls have neither roots,nor fruits.

Rory Cripps

at 09:17 on May 27th, 2010

T K: I don't know where you've been, but Rasmussen's polls are highly accurate. In fact Rasmussen was more accurate in the last two presidential elections than all the other mainstream polls.

Most of what I reported here constitutes a long-term trend. Especially in regard to the immigration issue. A snapshot is a snapshot. But a trend is a trend and trends by definition don't fluctuate. I know that it's hard to believe for some Americans and the rest of the world (which for the most part doesn't have a clue as to what the majority of Americans think and feel), but the majority of voters are not happy with Obama's policies nor do they like the Congress. Whether or not they're all a bunch of idiots and political morons is meaningless when it comes to who gets elected and who doesn't.The Democrats will have to pull a rabbit out of their collective political hat in order to maintain the margin that they now have in the Congress and Senate. The majority of American voters simply don't like what the Dems have been doing and to a lesser extent what the Repubs have been doing. And until the economy dramatically improves--which in light of its present condition is going to take years--voter's sentiments are headed to the right.

Rory Cripps

at 09:41 on May 27th, 2010

t k: One more thing: I personally have absolutely no faith whatsoever in either the Dems or Repubs to do the right thing. Both parties are bought and paid for by special interests that couldn't give a rat's ass about the general welfare or where their country is headed as long as they get theirs . . . .