CNN Poll: 52% say Obama does not deserve a second term in office

obamafacepalmIn a new CNN poll, entitled Anti-incumbent fever at record high the stats reveal that only 34 percent feel that current federal lawmakers deserve re-election, with 63 percent saying no. Despite this 51 percent still feel their member of Congress should be re-elected. As silly as this stat appears to be, this happens to be an all-time low in CNN polling. 44 percent say their representative doesn’t deserve to be returned to office in November. The most interesting finding in this poll though, and conveniently buried near the end of the story is that 52% of those polled don’t believe Obama deserves a second term!

While President Barack Obama is not up for re-election this November, he will be in 2012 if he decides to run for a second term. According to the poll, 44 percent of registered voters say Obama deserves re-election, with 52 percent saying the president does not deserve a second term in office. The survey also indicates that 49 percent of Americans approve of the job Obama’s doing as president, with half of the public disapproving of his job in the White House.

“One problem Obama faces may be the perception that Obama is not a middle-class kind of guy,” Holland said. “Only 4 percent of Americans describe themselves as upper class. But a 45 percent plurality say that Obama belongs to the upper class, with 42 percent saying he is from the middle class and 12 percent describing him as working class.”

The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted Friday through Monday, with 1,023 adult Americans, including 954 registered voters, questioned by telephone. The survey’s sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points both for all Americans and for registered voters.

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February 16, 2010 · Filed Under Political Polling


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