Polls Show Obama Causing Big Problems For Midterm Democrats

June 19, 2014 by Sam Rolley
THINKSTOCK

New polling data suggest that President Barack Obama’s bungling of foreign affairs and economic unease spurred by his policies on the domestic front is driving his approval ratings to new lows.
According to the results of the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, Obama’s overall approval rating has slipped to 41 percent. Furthermore, Americans’ faith in Obama’s ability to handle foreign relations issues is at an all-time low of 37 percent.
While the President’s polling numbers are bad for the Administration, The Wall Street Journal reports that the data “runs contrary to signs Americans agree with his policies on climate change and education, and as a divided Republican Party remains far less popular than the president and his party.”
To that point, 60 percent of those polled said that they felt climate change was at least an issue of concern, 57 percent said that they’d welcome policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions, and 59 percent supported Common Core.
But even among Democrats, support for some of the President’s policies doesn’t translate into faith that he is capable of enacting positive change.
“It all comes back to one word: leadership,” said Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who helped conduct the poll, told WSJ. “He may be winning the issues debate, but he’s losing the political debate because they don’t see him as a leader.”
Fifty-four percent of respondents said that they no longer feel Obama is capable of leading the country and doing his job satisfactorily.
And if the President was hoping to bolster his image as a strong leader by ordering the prisoner swap that brought U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl back stateside, the plan backfired. Only 30 percent of respondents to the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll said that they felt the swap was a good idea.
WSJ predicts that Obama’s low polling numbers will be reflected in voter turnout for midterm Democrats.

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