WASHINGTON -- More Americans are optimistic than pessimistic about how President Barack Obama will handle his second term, but that hope does not translate into a positive outlook on the economy or the potential for greater cooperation in Washington. Those finding stand out from a wide variety of public opinion polls conducted since November's election, including a new batch of results from a HuffPost/YouGov online survey of 1,000 Americans. The HuffPost/YouGov poll finds a significantly higher percentage of Americans who think Obama will accomplish more in his second term (39 percent) than those who think he will accomplish less (22 percent) or those who think he'll do about the same (25 percent) as he did in his first term. Those results are very similar to the findings of a McClatchy/Marist poll, conducted in early December, that asked Americans if they thought Obama's second term would be better, worse or the same as the first. Some may read these findings as an indicator of net pessimism, given that nearly half of the HuffPost/YouGov respondents (47 percent) anticipate the president's accomplishing less or about the same as in his first term.
The Road Forward: Polls Find Americans Optimistic And Pessimistic
Mark Blumenthal, Huffington Post: Business
Sat, 01/19/2013 - 6:28am
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