Pessimism permeates a CBS News poll released Tuesday, finding President Obama’s overall job approval rating down three points, tying his all-time low of 44 percent.
The survey also finds a gathering sense that the man in charge is not doing enough to alleviate Americans’ worries, CBS News Correspondent Dean Reynolds reports.
In Batavia, Ill., social worker Cherie Jones Das has a short wish list for the president.
“I’d like to see Obama do more, yeah. I really would,” said Das. “I’d like to see him do more to promote jobs.”
Indeed, in the poll, the economy is seen as the biggest problem by far facing the country, specifically the lack of jobs.
“A job, period,” said Californian Walter Powell. “A job, you know, most people, they can’t get jobs.”
Fifty-two percent say the president has spent too little time addressing the issue, and 63 percent say his economic programs have had no effect on them personally.
That’s politically ominous for Mr. Obama and probably frustrating, given that a number of independent economic research organizations say at least 2 million jobs were created or saved by the stimulus package
Yet 75 percent of the country believes the effects of the recession will last two more years or longer.
“I think it’s gonna inch slowly; it will get better but it’s going to inch very slowly,” said Das. “It may not happen in time to really save Obama.”
Fifty-three percent of Americans say the president’s approach to the nation’s problems is not tough enough, and they’re evenly divided – 48 percent to 48 percent – on whether he shares their priorities. One New Jersey Republican clearly believes he does not.
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