New CBS/NYTIMES Poll same as new CNN Poll Obama Approval 66%

[Thrill]

(CBS) As President Obama concludes his well-publicized trip to Europe, Americans are more positive about the respect accorded to a U.S. president than they have been in years, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll.

Sixty-seven percent say world leaders respect Mr. Obama, while 18 percent say they do not respect the president. That's a sharp contrast to the response when this question was asked about Mr. Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, in July 2006: Just 30 percent then said the president is respected by the leaders of other countries.

Mr. Obama's overall approval rating, meanwhile, has hit a new high of 66 percent, up from 64 percent last month. His disapproval rating stands at 24 percent. Nearly all Democrats and most independents approve of the way the president is handling his job, while only 31 percent of Republicans approve.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/06/opinion/polls/main4923710.shtml?tag=topStory;topStoryHeadline

[Barack_America]

1. That's such great news.

I had posted the NYT link in LBN.

Do me a favor and kick that up.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=102

My but how good news sinks around here!

:hi:

[AtomicKitten]

2. He's holding his own quite nicely amongst the sharks. n/t

[Barack_America]

3. The jump in consumer confidence is, IMO, quite remarkable...

...and speaks volumes about Obama's remarkable success so early on.

[AtomicKitten]

4. Absolutely.

While people here nitpick day-to-day blog chatter, Obama is working the big picture ... and it shows!

[Barack_America]

5. The big picture.

Spot on.

[underpants]

6. So the "Europeans MAY not like him" didn't work either?

Damn back to the drawing board

[Uzybone]

7. The numbers are only getting better

not just for President Obama but for the country as a whole.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/us/politics/07poll.html?hp

These sometimes turbulent weeks — marked by new initiatives by Mr. Obama, attacks by Republicans and more than a few missteps by the White House — do not appear to have hurt the president. Americans said they approve of Mr. Obama’s handling of the economy, foreign policy, Iraq and Afghanistan; fully two-thirds said they approve of his overall job performance.

By contrast, Republican fortunes have dropped in the first weeks of the Obama presidency; just 31 percent of respondents said they had a favorable view of the Republican Party, the lowest in the 25 years the question has been asked in New York Times/CBS News polls.

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The percentage of people who think the economy is getting worse has declined from 54 percent just before Mr. Obama took office to 34 percent today. At the same time, 20 percent now think the economy is getting better, compared with 7 percent in mid-January. “It’s psychology more than anything else,” Arthur Gilman, a Republican from Ridgewood, N.J., said in a follow-up interview after participating in the Times/CBS News Poll. “President Obama has turned around the negative feeling in this country. He’s given everything an impetus because he’s very upbeat, like Roosevelt was. It’s too soon to tell if the spending stuff works but some things have improved.”

snip

With the poll finding that an overwhelming number think the recession will last a year or more, Mr. Obama may find he has an unusually deep well of patience to draw on. The poll found that Mr. Obama shoulders virtually none of the public blame for the economic crisis: 33 percent blame Mr. Bush, 21 percent blame financial institutions, and 11 percent blame Congress.

[jenmito]

8. K&R. Thanks for the great news! n/t

[firedupdem]

9. K&R Excellent News. n/t

[Colobo]

10. Americans see the difference between a real president and... W...

[spanone]

11. knr

[WI_DEM]

12. They say "only 31% of Republicans approve" but that is actually quite good

to have nearly one-third of the opposition party approving. Bush in the last years of his presidency was lucky to get 5% of self named democrats approving him.

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

13. F U Rasmussen, you outliar. nt