According to a new Bloomberg National Poll, “Americans are growing more dissatisfied with President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy and say it will be hard to vote to re-elect him without seeing significant progress over the next year and a half.”
Among the data points from the poll (which has Democrats outnumbering Republicans by 32 percent v. 27 percent):
- Only 30 percent of respondents said they are certain to vote for the president and 36 percent said they definitely won’t.
- Among likely independent voters, only 23 percent said they will back his re-election, while 36 percent said they are sure they will seek out another candidate.
- By a 44 percent to 34 percent margin, Americans say they are worse off than they were when Obama took office.
- More than half of respondents (55 percent) say their children are destined to a lower standard of living.
- Fewer than a quarter of people (23 percent) see signs of improvement in the economy while two-thirds (66 percent) say they believe the country is on the wrong track
- Sixty-one percent either strongly agree or mostly agree that in 2012, Obama will have had his chance and if the economy isn’t substantially better by election day, it will be very hard to vote for him.
- By a margin of 61 percent to 32 percent, Americans disapprove of the job Obama is doing to tackle the budget deficit.
- Fifty-seven percent of respondents disapproved of his efforts to create jobs.
- Fifty-seven percent disapproved of his handling of the economy.
“As far as the economy goes, I don’t see that he has delivered on the change that he promised,” said Sharon Ortiz, a 38-year-old independent voter from Hampton, Virginia, who supported Obama in 2008. “The jobs that he promised — I haven’t seen it.”
No one else has either. Which is why the president is in the perilous political state he is.
