Moderates for Obama?

Team Obama can get a strong take away from this more recent Washington Post-ABC News Poll which finds a good 50% of believe the President is being blocked by Republicans and “making a good faith effort to deal with the country’s economic problems.”   They think Republicans are “playing politics by blocking his proposals and programs.”

Still, another 44% think that the recession is to blame on Obama is at fault and the he has not “has not provided leadership on the economy.”  54% of Independents blame Republicans while 57% of moderates do.

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These numbers are better for the President but nothing spectacular.  It just means that the 50% threshold he finally crossed is consistent with recent approval ratings that are just below that number. So, he’s still got a lot of work to do. That said, he’s found some sort of stride with the more aggressive narrative and stumping on the jobs bill – which still hasn’t gone anywhere legislatively.

Charles D. Ellison, Managing Editor for Politic365.com, Washington Correspondent for The Philadelphia Tribune and a weekly political analyst providing insight on WDAS-FM (Philadelphia), WVON-AM (Chicago) and KSRO-AM (Sonoma County, CA). He is author of the critically-acclaimed urban political thriller TANTRUM. More information can be found at http://www.cdellison.com

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