The debt-limit showdown and the stalled economy has tarnished President Barack Obama’s standing with voters and dampened their optimism about America’s future, with nearly three out of four voters now saying the country is headed in the wrong direction, according to a new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll.
The dim public outlook is a blunt reminder of why the White House has so much riding on the president’s high-stakes economic speech Thursday and the success of his latest push for a jobs package.
Capturing a rapid erosion of confidence through the summer months, the poll found 72 percent of voters believe the country is either strongly or somewhat headed in the wrong direction, a jump of 12 percentage points since May. Only 20 percent of voters say the country is going in the right direction, a 12-point drop in the same period.
The sudden shift in attitudes reflects the deepening sense in Washington that Obama is increasingly vulnerable as the Republican presidential primary campaign ramps up this month with three debates in the next three weeks.
I’d like to know who the 20% that think the economy is headed in the right direction are. (And how many Moons are in the sky above their planet).
Must be “Wards of the State.”
The minute a Conservative wins The Executive Branch, or Congress, these dopes will believe we’re headed in the wrong direction.
What should be even more worrisome for the temporary denizen in the Oval Office is the fact that he’s even lost the Hamptons. From the keyboard of liberal Richard Cohen at WaPo.
For a POTUS, bent on absconding a record billion in re’election campaign funds, losing the wealthy pockets of New Yorkers sure ain’t gonna help.
… sniff…. /sarc