Pollster John Zogby joins the Washington Whispers team to regularly update our new Obamameter. Each week, Zogby will size up Barack Obama on a specific issue, his popularity, or job performance and, based on his polling results and expert analysis, come up with a rating of between 1 and 100. In this week's Obamameter, Zogby analyzes Obama's standing amid Republican budget attacks. He gives Obama 89 out of 100.
"The chief weapons in President Obama's arsenal continue to be his personal popularity, his ability to communicate, and the Republicans' uncanny ability to shoot themselves in their heads and their feet. On Republican and conservative websites, Obama takes a beating on his stimulus plan. On Wall Street, he is accused of destroying wealth, and at last weekend's CPAC convention for conservatives, Rush Limbaugh professes his desire that the president fail. Advice to all three: You lost the election, you have very little credibility outside of your base, and you are helping to make the president look even better. Right now, Obama's popularity is 15 points higher than when Americans voted him into office, and only 26 percent of Americans think that the Republicans can do a good job. But Obama still needs bipartisanship and a firmer control over those partisan Dems in Congress. Rating: 89"
Last week's rating: 90.
John Zogby is president and CEO of Zogby International, a public opinion, research, and business solutions firm with experience working in more than 70 countries around the globe. Founded and led by Zogby since 1984, Zogby International specializes in telephone, Internet, and face-to-face survey research and analysis for corporate, political, nonprofit, and governmental clients. The firm is headquartered in Utica, N.Y. John Zogby is also the author of The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream (Random House).
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