Poll: 45% approve of Obama's handling of the economy

By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto, and Fred Backus

As President Barack Obama prepares for the first State of the Union Address of his second term, one which will primarily be focused on economic issues, fewer than half of Americans (45 percent) approve of how he's handling the economy, while more (49 percent) disapprove.

• Obama to key on fiscal strengths in State of the Union

Overall, Mr. Obama is performing better with 52 percent of Americans now approving of the job he is doing as President, while 38 percent disapprove.

Mr. Obama's approval rating has remained fairly constant over the past year, though it rose as high as 57 percent in December. Only 12 percent of Republicans approve; 86 percent of Democrats do. Just under half of independents approve.

On the other hand, the President enjoys particularly strong support for his handling of terrorism - 57 percent approve, while 31 percent disapprove.

Use of Drones

The practice of using unmanned drone aircrafts to attack suspected terrorists in foreign countries - a policy begun by the Bush Administration and expanded under President Obama - enjoys widespread and bipartisan support. Seven in 10 Americans favor using drones to attack suspected terrorists abroad, including most Republicans, Democrats, and independents.

Americans also support a more controversial measure, although in smaller numbers. Forty-nine percent of Americans favor the targeting and killing of U.S. citizens living abroad who are suspected of carrying out terrorist activities against the U.S.; 38 percent oppose that.

Cooperation between Republicans and Democrats?

Looking ahead, Americans are not especially optimistic that there will be more cooperation between Republicans and Democrats in the next four years than there was during the President's first term. Just 17 percent think there will be more cooperation, 22 percent say less, and 58 percent say cooperation will be about the same as it was during the last four years.

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This poll was conducted by telephone from February 6-10, 2013 among 1,148 adults nationwide. Phone numbers were dialed from samples of both standard land-line and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups may be higher. This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.

[Augy-Doggie]

According to this mixed up poll trying not make Obama look so bad, he has only 45% who think he has done a good job with the econmy.
That strange considering He hasn't done anything right to improve the economy.
Forget the 15% or 16% who CBS News says are too stupid to know Obama sucks at the economy.
They know Obama isn't cutting it.
So in truth 55% think Obama stinks at economic issues.
CBS News never fails to amuse with their fictitious polls.

[Think4times]

Noo of course we can't count on this poll, or that poll, or the other poll, so what we need is a poll-of-polls! Oh, we tried that too? Then I guess we have to do a poll-of-polls-of-polls!

Fact is, most people are talking out of their backsides.

[JeffersonDarcy]

The President's worldview, any citizen of any country who wants to work hard and get ahead is as entitled to a job as an American, even if that citizen of another country has broken our laws to be here.
If you against any kind of Amnesty, go to this website and register.
Google this: NUMBERSUSA .Once you are registered, go to the "action board"

[VICTORYDEMZ2012]

TaxJoke says:
55% of our Country thinks Obummer SUCKS - enough said . . .
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98% of CBSNEWS.COM views thinks TaxJoke SUCKS - enough said . . .

[44wonder]

I for one think Victorydemz2012 SUCKS..

[Think4times]

knsn_for_cmn_sense replies:

how do you know I was talking about you??? I might have been talking about T4T...
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As my best friend's 5yr old son says when he feel like throwing one of his matchbox cars on the ground:

"Arrr mean guy!"

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[knsn_for_cmn_sense]

LOL!

Sorry. He fell right into that one.

[browzer2]

Obama is the most Arrogant, Divisive, and Partisan President in all of U.S. history. His Marxist policies are destroying our economy and our nation. I'm listening to his SOTU, and its full of division, and outright lies. He wants more spending, more DEBT, and NO CUTS to anything. Ever sentence he speaks adds a trillion dollars to our DEBT if he actually gets what he wants passed into law. Obama is destroying our economy and our Freedom. Future historians will mark the day Obama was first sworn into office as the start of the Decline and Fall of the United States of America!

[knsn_for_cmn_sense]

short term memory loss?

[Toddwest]

What?? Who are such fools? Are these the sheeple, the large group of ignorant stupid types that I've been hearing about for the past decade?

[VICTORYDEMZ2012]

Nominated for "Best Post of the Night":

erasmus111 replies:

Oh shut the hell up.

YOU are the bald faced liar.

You can sit there and deny things are better, but that is just not true. There are more and more jobs every day. You are no longer circling the drain. If it wasn't for Obama, you'd be sitting a rock bottom.

And Obama has nothing to do with the freaking gasoline!

"Record numbers of people on food stamps and on welfare than under any president."

What you have is the result of BUSH. You think things can change over night? When you have 8 freaking years of DESTRUCTION, you'd be lucky to undo that in another 8 years, if EVER.


"He blew added 6 trillion to the debt in just two years."

When you are bankrupt, where are you going to get the money to do the things you need to do? To correct the screw ups from the last president. Surely you didn't think that changes could be made without spending money? The idea is to make changes and hope that those changes start saving you money down the road. But all that takes TIME.

Everyone was b*tching about raising the debt ceiling. HELLO!! If you don't raise the debt ceiling, you idiots will be going without EVERYTHING.

You may as well face it, no matter who became president, it would be the same as far as the debt goes. No way around it. You owe trillions of dollars that have to be paid back and you still have to LIVE while you are doing it!

Damn, some of you are so stupid it's pathetic. You just need something to b*tch about. You need to consider yourself lucky that you didn't get McCain, the warmonger, and Romney, the money spender. I bet old Romney would have out done Obama, big time.

[knsn_for_cmn_sense]

Well. Romney was more liberal than Obama. For sure.

Bet he would have jumped on weapon bans too.

[erasmus111]

Democrat-Gone-Indepenent

Blah, Blah, Blah.

And another thing, ass hole, Obama hadn't even sat his ass down in the White House yet and you guys were already ripping him apart.

How do you bash a guy for not doing anything when he wasn't even president yet?

And then there were the parents and their kids, holding signs and chanting ASSASSINATE OBAMA.

What the problem is, you're all just a bunch of racist pigs! It has absolutely nothing to do with what he's doing or not doing.

[saucymugwump]

Anyone who thinks that Obama is doing a good job on the economy is either clueless or a dedicated liberal. Or both.

Obama has been as friendly to Wall Street as George W. Bush. Peruse the following URLs for proof.

http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/2011/12/13/wheres-the-fraud-mr-president/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/untouchables/
http://saucymugwump.blogspot.com/2012/07/debt-follies-part-2.html

[VICTORYDEMZ2012]

outback_jackson replies:

What do you expect from a park ranger living in a single-wide?

Watch it!!! Ranger is the best GD ranger in the U.S. Park System!!!! He even won "Best Interior Department Employee of the Year, 1967"

[knsn_for_cmn_sense]

VD I hear that Dan is looking for a spooning partner.

[VICTORYDEMZ2012]

The_Ranger_Stands_Alone says:
VICTORYDEMZ2012 replies: Nice cut-n-paste Ranger...who wrote it?!?!?!??!?!?!?
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You hurt my feelings, Meboard....

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Now...now...now... A man with four steel plates in his head can surly take a little ribbing!?!?!?!?!?!?