This poll was taken Dec. 17-19, BEFORE START was ratified and part of it before DADT was repealed. So I'm guessing it should it would be even higher, now.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey indicates that 56 percent of Americans say they approve of the way Obama's handled the issues that Congress has considered during the lame duck sesssion, with 41 percent saying they disapprove.
According to the poll, only 44 percent of the public approves of how congressional Republicans have handled the issues and that number drops to 42 percent for Republican leaders in Congress, with a majority of Americans saying they disapprove of how both congressional Democrats and Republicans are acting during the session.
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The survey suggests that Obama is getting high marks for cooperating with the GOP. Six in ten say that the president has cooperated enough with the Republicans; in February a majority said that he had not done enough. But more than two-thirds of the public says that the GOP has not cooperated enough with Obama, and a growing number blame the GOP for the lack of cooperation in Washington.
"That may explain why the Republican Party's favorable rating is lower than the Democratic Party's figure. Even though the Republicans made a net gain of 63 congressional seats in November's midterm elections and drove the Democrats out of power in the U.S. House, the GOP's favorable rating is only 42 percent, compared to 47 percent for the Democratic party," adds Holland.
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