Communications

“You have more and more people, at least anecdotally I've picked this up, edging towards buyer remorse over their vote for Barack Obama. It's very interesting, what's going on,” Mike Barnicle, MSNBC, January 13, 2010

A new Quinnipiac Poll <http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1411>  out today confirms that what voters are getting from the Obama Administration is not the change they expected to get. The poll finds that voters are split, 45%-45%, in judging whether Obama’s first year as president has been a success or a failure.

In particular, the poll finds that 54% disapprove of the way Obama is handling the economy and 47%, a plurality of those polled, think Obama hasn’t been spending enough time on the economy. By a 53% to 43% margin, voters said Obama “is being fiscally irresponsible in his spending of federal money.”  On health care, 58% disapproved of Obama’s handling of the issue while 35% approved.

This is the second poll in as many days to find evidence of buyer’s remorse when voters are asked to rate the president’s first year. Yesterday CNN <http://ow.ly/VJwS>  released a poll that found 48% rated Obama's presidency a failure, 47% said Obama has been a success.