By 2-1,Americans predict Obama will make a sincere effort to reach common ground.Most doubt GOP will

[Pirate Smile]

Poll: Dems, GOP divided on how to move forward

WASHINGTON — Democrats would like to sit down and work things out. Republicans are ready to rumble.
The first USA TODAY/Gallup Poll since last week's dramatic midterm elections finds Americans not only divided about who should have more influence in the nation's direction over the next year — 49% choose congressional Republicans and 41% President Obama — but there is also a huge partisan divide over how to proceed.

• Republicans are more than twice as likely as Democrats to say it's more important for political leaders to stick to their beliefs even if little gets done. Forty-one percent of Republicans put themselves at the hang-tough end of a five-point scale — at four or five — vs. 18% of Democrats.
• Democrats are almost twice as likely as Republicans to say it's more important for political leaders to compromise in order to get things done. Fifty-nine percent of Democrats put themselves at the make-a-deal end of the scale — at one or two — compared with 31% of Republicans.

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One complication for Republicans, however, is that the independents who swung to the GOP and helped deliver sweeping House victories tend to back compromise. Half of them, 49%, said it is more important to get things done, compared with 24% who want leaders to stick to their beliefs.

There's also not much of a mandate for the GOP to repeal Obama's signature health care law, a rallying cry for Republican candidates during the campaign.
Among those surveyed, 42% say the law "goes too far" and 49% say it is "about right" or doesn't go far enough. One-third would like the law repealed.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2010-11-08-post-election-poll_N.htm

[Clio the Leo]

1. Thus proving the point I've been trying to make all along...

.... his (continued) gestures toward bipartisanship are to give himself cover for the times he doesn't. Just like with the health care bill, ultimately, he had to use reconciliation .... would Americans opinions of him be different if he'd done that without going OUT of his way try to appear to want to work with the GOP?

Sure, the GOP (and their voters) think he "rammed through a piece of left wing garbage" but they also think that the sky is orange. .... I'm not aware of any research that shows INDEPENDENTS think that and this tends to refute that they do.

There IS a reason why he's STILL more popular than anyone in DC.

[yurbud]

2. when were the times he didn't?