Washington, July 19: Many recent polls suggest US president’s popularity has diminished due to growing public concern over Obama’s handling of the economic recovery and joblessness.
Obama’s poor poll ratings indicate that Americans are losing faith in their president, blaming him for their money woes.
His approval rating on the economy has tumbled five percentage points from last month, according to a new CBS News poll.
More than half of those questioned (54 percent) said they disapproved of Obama’s handling of the economy and three in four Americans think the effects of the recession will linger for another two years or more.
Another opinion poll for the Washington Post and ABC News earlier this week found that six in ten Americans lacked faith in Obama to make the right decisions for the country and a CBS News poll released on Tuesday found Obama’s overall job approval rating down three points, his all-time low of 44 percent.
CBS News has also reported that 13 percent of the people think his economic leadership has bettered their lives. That means 87 percent do not.
The Rasmussen Reports’ daily tracking poll showed 43 percent strongly disapprove of his leadership.
According to an article in Telegraph by Alex Spillius, Obama’s inability to articulate his plans has generated the sense of a presidency on the verge of failure.
Buried deep in yet another poll this week cataloguing Obama’s declining popularity in his home country was an intriguing nugget of opinion, Spillius wrote.
Democracy Corps, a left-leaning research firm, found that 55 percent of Americans think the word “socialist” fittingly describes their president.
He believes by most received definitions, this is absurd. If socialism is a belief that the means of production and distribution should be owned collectively or by central government, then Obama is no more a socialist than Ronald Reagan ever was.
“But if Obama isn’t a socialist, what is he? It is strange to report, but after 19 months of living under his presidency, Americans are still not sure. It is a big part of his problem.”
He continues that the president and his advisers have failed to describe his goals or his broader philosophy with any concision at all. He remains an enigma whom the electorate struggles to get a handle on.
“Perhaps the president and his vaunted speechwriters and message mavens simply feel too battered by the storms of war, economic stagnation and BP’s oil spill to rediscover their golden touch from the campaign. They have certainly over-indulged their belief in his magnetic persona and his sweeping oratory, which now sounds flat and predictable,” he added.
The article points out that whatever the reasons, the failure to create a narrative of what Obama is trying to achieve has helped generate a sense of “a president on the verge of failure,” even though his legislative achievements have been considerable.
——-Agencies