{"id":2761,"date":"2009-04-26T07:38:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T14:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/so-this-is-what-it-feels-like-to-be-with-the-majority\/"},"modified":"2009-04-26T07:38:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T14:38:13","slug":"so-this-is-what-it-feels-like-to-be-with-the-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/so-this-is-what-it-feels-like-to-be-with-the-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"So, This is What it Feels Like to be with the Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An ABC News poll released this morning shows that a vast majority — 69 percent — of Americans approve of President Obama and 72 percent view him favorably, "the best job approval rating at this point in 20 years, [and] the broadest personal popularity since Ronald Reagan." Fifty percent now say the United States is headed in the right direction, up 31 points since the end of the Bush administration<\/a>, when only 19 percent thought the country was on the right track. Other figures from the poll:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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— "Fifty-eight percent approve of Obama’s work on the economy."<\/p>\n

— "Obama leads the Republicans in Congress in trust to handle the economy by a garish 61-24 percent."<\/p>\n

— "A remarkable 90 percent say Obama is ‘willing to listen to different points of view’; fewer than half said that about George W. Bush."<\/p>\n

— Seventy-seven "percent call Obama a strong leader, nearly matching Bush’s best a few months after 9\/11."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A majority supported<\/a> Obama’s decision to release the torture memos, but only 49 percent support his blanket ban on torture. That said, a majority still favors holding investigations into the Bush administration’s use of torture.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/04\/26\/obama-100-days-poll\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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