Washington, January 20: Most Americans believe that President Barack Obama needs to do a better job by putting US national interests ahead of his own political considerations, a new survey shows.
About 70 percent of Americans in a newly released USA Today/Gallup poll said Obama should do more to bring changes the country needs, UPI reported on Wednesday.
The participants believe Obama has not succeeded in bringing about change which was a central theme of his 2008 election campaign.
“Democrats’ approval ratings range from 53 percent for bringing about needed change to 84 percent for having strong moral character while less than half of Republicans favor Obama on any category,” the survey showed.
A majority of Americans also believe the president should show greater understanding of the problems ordinary people face and be a more decisive leader.
“Overall, 47 percent of Americans approve of the president’s job performance and 49 percent disapprove,” the survey showed.
The telephone poll of 1,032 adults was conducted from Friday through Sunday with a margin of error of 4 percent.
A survey released in mid-October by Gallup also showed that 54 percent of US voters believed Obama did not deserve a second term in office, with only 39 percent supporting his re-election.
Obama’s average approval rating, which has declined each quarter since he took office in 2009, has dropped to a new low in the fourth quarter of 2010.
An unemployment rate of nearly 10 percent, a home foreclosure crisis and the war in Afghanistan are major issues that swayed voters to support the Republicans in the recent elections in the United States.
——–Agencies