President Obama vowed today not to scale back big initiatives in his 2010 budget and, at least for now, voters support his budget plan by 49 percent to 40 percent, according to an NPR poll conducted March 10-12.
But while Obama garners overall support for his plan, the people who feel "strongly" against it comprise the biggest bloc of respondents in the poll, at 30 percent. Similarly, while they favor the economic stimulus bill 55 percent to 42 percent, the biggest bloc again is the one of voters strongly against it, at 33 percent.
The poll also found that voters believe the country is still on the wrong track by 63 percent to 31 percent, but that compared to 80 percent to 16 percent in NPR's last poll in May, 2008.
Obama's job approval rating was 59 to 35 with 38 strongly approving. Fifty-six percent approve of his handling of the economy versus 39 percent who do not.
Although congressional Republicans have been faring badly in several recent polls, when asked on a 'generic ballot" whether they would vote for the GOP or Democratic candidate in their district if elections were held today, voters divided evenly at 42 percent each.
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