Obama Gets More Points As Pal Than President

November 19, 2009 1:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

American voters like President Obama considerably more as someone to share a beer than they like what he is trying to do when he's at work, according to a Quinnipiac University poll taken Nov. 9-16.

While 74 percent of the respondents to the survey say they like Obama as a person, 47 percent say they like his policies, the Quinnipiac poll found.

"Most Americans like President Barack Obama and might like to have a beer with him," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "But millions of voters who sided with him last November because they thought he would bring change to Washington aren't crazy about the kind of change he is trying to bring."

Voters in the survey disapproved of Obama's handling of health care 53 percent to 41 percent, although a plurality said they trusted him more than Republicans in Congress to handle the issue 45 percent to 36 percent.

And there seems to be a general feeling of restlessness among voters, 69 percent of whom say they are dissatisfied with "the way things are going in the nation today." Thirty percent say they are satisfied.

The poll was based on telephone interviews with 2,518 registered voters nationwide and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

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