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The scandal President is finally more recognized...just the tip of the iceberg.
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Thats the clear conclusion of a new CNN/Opinion Research poll (PDF) showing the government-surveillance scandals taking a real toll on the presidents popularityparticularly with the younger voters who have been among his staunchest supporters. In just one month, support for the president among voters under age 30 plummeted by 17 points.
Perhaps the most devastating poll number, though, is the reversal of perception on what has been one of this presidents core characteristics: honesty and trustworthiness. Around three in five voters have consistently seen Obama possessing these traits, meaning that even voters who didnt approve of his job performance saw him as an essentially honest guy and a trustworthy chief executive. No more. On this measure, too, the president is underwater at 49 percenta nine-point drop.
Political independents are also souring on Obama, with just 37 percent approving of his job performance, a 10-point drop. But because the independent voter cohort has moved right in the wake of the Tea Party movement, we see a continued split between independents and self-described moderate voters, 53 percent of whom still approve of the job the president is doing. The support of centrist voters is President Obamas life preserver, stopping him from going underwater entirely.
In Wake of Surveillance Stories, Barack Obama?s Poll Numbers Plummet - The Daily Beast
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Thats the clear conclusion of a new CNN/Opinion Research poll (PDF) showing the government-surveillance scandals taking a real toll on the presidents popularityparticularly with the younger voters who have been among his staunchest supporters. In just one month, support for the president among voters under age 30 plummeted by 17 points.
Perhaps the most devastating poll number, though, is the reversal of perception on what has been one of this presidents core characteristics: honesty and trustworthiness. Around three in five voters have consistently seen Obama possessing these traits, meaning that even voters who didnt approve of his job performance saw him as an essentially honest guy and a trustworthy chief executive. No more. On this measure, too, the president is underwater at 49 percenta nine-point drop.
Political independents are also souring on Obama, with just 37 percent approving of his job performance, a 10-point drop. But because the independent voter cohort has moved right in the wake of the Tea Party movement, we see a continued split between independents and self-described moderate voters, 53 percent of whom still approve of the job the president is doing. The support of centrist voters is President Obamas life preserver, stopping him from going underwater entirely.
In Wake of Surveillance Stories, Barack Obama?s Poll Numbers Plummet - The Daily Beast
