There's been a lot of punditry about whether Democrats are getting the best of the Republicans in the opening round of the Obama administration by pushing through the big economic stimulus package or the Republicans are benefitting from having hung tough against it. The verdict among registered voters in a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll conducted Feb. 17-18 comes down in Barack Obama's favor.
Voters say by 66 percent to 28 percent that Obama had tried to reach out to Republicans and be bipartisan about the package, and they say 60 percent to 33 percent that the Republicans have not sincerely tried to act in a bipartisan way. Overall, voters approve of the job congressional Democrats are doing by 46 percent to 45 percent and disapprove of the GOP's performance by 56 percent to 34 percent. Obama's approval to disapproval ratio is 60 percent to 26 percent, down from 65 percent to 16 percent in late January.
Support for the $787.2 billion stimulus package was 51 percent to 40 percent.
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The Republicans at this point remind me of a herd of Norway lemmings about to go over a cliff. Regardless of the rights or wrongs of their positions, they're coming across as being more eager to trip up Obama than help the country. And, they don't even seem to realize it.
Posted by: billp
| February 20, 2009 12:26 AM
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