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Rasmussen
Reports…
What They Told Us:
Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Things appear to be looking up a bit for President Obama who on Friday
posted his highest job approval numbers in nearly a year in the
Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.
Tacking to the center after the Democrats’ disastrous showing in the
midterm elections, most notably with the Bush tax cut deal, seems to be
paying off for the president.
Most voters (57%) also have a favorable opinion of Obama’s response to
the recent tragic shootings of a congresswoman and the killing of six
others in Arizona, although they feel the incident will have no lasting
impact on the political debate in the country. On the other hand,
voters give mixed marks to the media’s handling of the shootings, and
most (56%) say the coverage focused too much on the political angle of
the story.
A sizable number of voters plan to watch or follow news reports of the
president’s State of the Union speech next Tuesday night, but at the
same time they acknowledge that presidents generally don’t accomplish
most of what they promise in their annual addresses to the nation.
Despite the recent good news for the president, the
Republican-controlled House voted this past week to repeal the national
health care law, his chief legislative accomplishment of the last two
years. The repeal effort is likely to die a slow death in the Senate,
but health care will remain at the center of the national political
debate through the 2012 elections, as Scott Rasmussen explained in a
video and online chat with Platinum members on Tuesday.
Most voters (55%) continue to favor repeal of the health care law
passed by Democrats in Congress last year.
Although the Congressional Budget Office claims repealing the law will
increase the federal budget deficit, a plurality of voters disagrees
with that assessment. At the same time, most feel free market
competition will do more to cut health care costs than government
regulation.
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