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65
Percent
of Union Members Say Obama is More Liberal Than They Are
By Patrick
Burke
March 15,
2012
(CNSNews.com)
- President Barack Obama has tried to portray himself as a champion of
the
average American against a wealthy elite. However, a new Rasmussen poll
found
that 65 percent of union members say they believe Obama is more liberal
than
they are.
The poll
also found that 59 percent of likely voters think Obama is more liberal
than
they are, an increase of 7 points from last month.
When asked
if in political terms President Obama is “more conservative”, “more
liberal”,
or “about the same,” 59 percent of respondents answered Obama is more
liberal
than they are, while 11 percent said he is more conservative, and 25
percent
said they have views that are “about the same” as the president.
The
pollster recorded that 65 percent of likely voters who are also union
members
said they think the president is more liberal than they are--7
percentage
points more than the non-union respondents who feel the same way.
The survey
of 1,000 likely voters nationwide was conducted on March 7-8.
Rasmussen
posed the same question but instead applied it to Republican and
Democratic
members of Congress. 62 percent of respondents believe the “average
Democrat in
Congress” is more liberal than they are, and 47 percent believe the
“average
Republican in Congress” is more conservative.
Question #4
of the survey asks: “Would it be more accurate to describe the agenda
of Republicans
in Congress as mainstream or extreme?” Forty-six (46) percent of
respondents
described the Republican agenda in Congress as “extreme” whereas 41
percent
thought “mainstream” was a more apt description, which is a decrease of
six
percentage points from February.
Conversely,
50 percent viewed the Democratic agenda as “extreme” and 38 percent
chose to
describe it as “mainstream.”
The
Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows President Obama
slightly
behind Gov. Mitt Romney in a hypothetical 2012 presidential race. As of
March
15, 26 percent say they “strongly approve” of the President’s job
performance
and 41 percent “strongly disapprove.”
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