48% Give Obama Good or Excellent Marks for Leadership
Friday, September 07, 2012
President Obama continues to earn positive marks for leadership from nearly half the nation's voters, but there's a wide partisan difference of opinion on this question.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters rate the president's leadership as good or excellent. Forty percent (40%) think he's doing a poor job. It's important to note that these attitudes were measured prior to his prime-time speech Thursday night to the Democratic National Convention. (To see survey question wording, click here .)
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on September 5-6, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC . See methodology .