Zogby-Survey finds only 43 percent would re-elect Obama now
Survey finds only 43 percent would re-elect Obama now
Survey finds only 43 percent would re-elect Obama now
By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
11/17/09 5:03 PM EST
Only 43 percent of voters surveyed by the Zogby/O'Leary Poll would vote for President Obama less than a year after he was elected, or about the same level of support President Clinton won in 1992 in a three-way race with the first President Bush and former EDS executive and national political gadfly Ross Perot.
Perhaps even more worrisome for the president is that only 37 percent of independents queried in the survey said they would support Obama.
That figure appears to be consistent with exit polling following the Virginia and New Jersey governorship races which indicated a seismic shift among independents away from Obama and to Republican candidates Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie.
And on the question of trust, Obama also fell far short of his performance during the 2008 presidential race.
A year later, Zogby/O'Leary find that 42 percent of voters say they do not trust the Obama White House “at allâ€