Poll: Obama tops GOP on economy, debt

I often wonder who the people are in the polls that they talk to. Even so, I know that the President is doing the best he can with the resources he has. His entire presidency in some eyes, has been one big compromise: beginning with healthcare, then the extension of the Bush tax cuts. He must hold his position on this one. The people are with him. The debt ceiling should not be tied to anything else right now. This is classic Republican manipulation, we cannot fall for it again.

A majority of U.S. voters give a thumbs down to President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy, but they trust him more than congressional Republicans to get the country back on track — and favor his approach to trimming the nation’s debt, a poll out Thursday finds.

Fifty-six percent of voters say in the new Quinnipiac University poll that they disapprove of how the president is handling the economy, while 38 percent approve.

Even so, 45 percent trust the president more than Republicans on the economy, while 38 percent trust the Republicans more.

As negotiations to raise the debt ceiling have intensified and the president has taken on a larger role in fighting for them in public and in private, Obama’s approval rating has stayed unchanged from Quinnipiac’s last poll a month ago with 47 percent of voters approving of his job performance and 46 percent disapproving.

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