State poll shows approval rating of 50% for Obama, 25% for Congress
By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel
July 14, 2011 10:44 a.m. |(196) Comments
Madison -- Half of Wisconsin residents polled approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing, while only a quarter of them like how Congress is operating, according to a survey released Wednesday.
The numbers for Obama are in keeping with where they were a year ago, while Congress' approval rating has slipped, according to the University of Wisconsin Survey Center's Badger Poll.
Of those polled, 50% approved of the job Obama was doing and 44% disapproved. A year ago, 49% approved and 46% disapproved. Congress had a 25% approval rating and 69% disapproval rating -- worse than a year ago, when it was 29%-64%.
The poll of 556 Wisconsin residents was conducted June 17 to July 10. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points. Results from the poll released earlier this week showed a 59% disapproval rating for Gov. Scott Walker.
The results released Wednesday showed 58% approving of the job Democratic U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl is doing and 25% disapproving. The remainder neither approved nor disapproved of the job he was doing or said they didn't know.
For Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson -- who is six months into his first term in office -- 44% approved and 34% disapproved.
The poll also found 59% want the federal government to focus on job creation rather than deficit reduction.
Thirty-one percent wanted some of both and 1% said they didn't know.
Nearly two-thirds of those polled -- 64% -- said they were dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States. An overwhelming 91% said the country is in bad economic times;
44% said they expected things to be about the same a year from now, 30% said they would get better and 25% said they would get worse.
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