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Obama approval slips below 60 percent
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama's public approval rating has slipped.
"As a growing number of Americans see him listening more to his party's liberals than to its moderates, and many voice opposition to some of his key economic proposals,'' the president's high approval ratings have softened, the Pew Research Center's Andrew Kohut says today.
. It's down from 64 percent in February to 59 percent in the newest Pew survey, while the presidenti's disapproval rating has jumped from 17 to 26 percent in this span.
Disapproval of Obama has "increased markedly'' among Republicans (by 15 percentage points) and among independents (by 13 points).
The public perceives Obama as listening more to liberal Democrats than moderate Democrats -- by a margin of 44 percent to 30 percent in this survey. This marks a reversal from January, when 44 percent said he was listening more to moderates in his party and 34 percent said he was listening more to the party's liberals.
The latest survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Presswas run March 9-12, the survey of 1,308 adults carrying a 3 percent margin of error.
"There continues to be broad support for increased spending on infrastructure, and most have positive views of key aspects of his budget planreducing taxes on middle and lower-income households and raising taxes on the affluent,'' Kohut president of the Pew Center, reports.
"But the public remains divided over spending billions to help homeowners who are facing foreclosure on mortgages they cannot afford46 percent say this is the right thing for the government to be doing while an identical percentage says it is wrong.
See the full Pew report on Obama's slipping approval.
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