The Obama effect on the Nation vs. his effect on the GOP!

[FrenchieCat]

May 5, 2009
Americans' Satisfaction With U.S. Doubles Since January

PRINCETON, NJ -- Although still low on an absolute basis, the percentage of Americans who are satisfied with the way things are going in the United States has doubled since Barack Obama took office, moving from 17% in mid-January to 34% for the week ending May 3. All of the increase has come from Democrats (among whom a majority are now satisfied) and, to a lesser degree, independents; Republicans' satisfaction is no different now than it was in mid-January, and remains very low.



Gallup's satisfaction measure was at 17% when measured Jan. 19-25, the week Obama was inaugurated. After remaining low for much of February, satisfaction began to climb in March and through April to its current 34% level.

A situation in which only a third of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going is, of course, not high on an absolute basis, but still represents the highest level of satisfaction Gallup has measured since early 2007. The all-time high on this measure in Gallup's 30-year history of asking the question is 71% in February 1999, at the end of the Bill Clinton impeachment situation. The all-time low is 7% from a poll last October, conducted shortly after Congress rejected but then ultimately passed financial rescue legislation designed to prop up failing financial institutions, and after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the government bailout of AIG in September.

Obama took office this January with satisfaction levels lower than they were at the start of his immediate two predecessors' terms. In January 2001, the month in which George W. Bush was inaugurated, U.S. satisfaction was higher, at 56% (and slipped slightly, to 50%, by April of that year). In January 1993, when Bill Clinton took office, satisfaction was at 29% (and fell slightly to 25% by February, the only time Gallup measured satisfaction in Clinton's first four months in office).
http://www.gallup.com/poll/118204/Americans-Satisfaction-Doubles-January.aspx

Obama effect on the GOP = Teabaggers crying in their Teacup!

[Ikonoklast]

1. I felt lots better on Jan. 20, 2008.

I always knew that we were a better country after that.

[FrenchieCat]

2. You and me!

:)

[Kaleko]

3. Et moi aussi.

Pardon my French.




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