Poll Shows Swing States Want New President to Depart from Obama Policies
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Official White House Photo by Pete Souz (NEW YORK) — President Obama isn’t doing such a great job, according to voters polled in three critical swing states.
Data from a Quinnipiac University poll shows voters in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia, disapprove by margins of 9 percentage points (43-52 percent in Colorado; 43-52 percent in Iowa; 44-53 percent in Virginia) of the job President Obama is doing.
“Events change and issues move on and off the front-burner, but President Barack Obama’s job approval stays relatively the same — low,” said Peter A. Brown, assisstant director of the Quinnipiac Poll. “That’s about where it has ben for most of the last few years.”
By even bigger margins, voters want the next president to change directions from President Obama’s policies.
“By margins of 24 points or higher, voters say they want the next president to change direction and not follow President Obama’s policies. Whether that desire for a new direction will hurt the eventual Democratic nominee in 2016, time will tell,” Brown said.
Voters in those states, however, support by wide margins, Obama’s proposal to increase taxes on higher income earners to reduce taxes on the middle class.
As for the current state of the economy, Brown said voters in all three states say their personal financial situation is improving, but “at this point the president is not getting much credit for the improving economy.”
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