CNN - Poll: Obama leadership rates high as Bush's after 9/11 (Higher actually)

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Poll: Obama leadership rates high as Bush's after 9/11

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A national poll suggests that three-quarters of the public thinks President-elect Barack Obama is a strong and decisive leader, the highest marks for a president-elect on that characteristic in nearly three decades.
Seventy-six percent of Americans questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Wednesday said Obama is a strong and decisive leader.

"That's the best number an incoming president has gotten on that dimension since Ronald Reagan took office in 1981," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. "The public's rating of his leadership skills is already as high as George W. Bush's was after 9/11 and easily beats the numbers that both Bush and Bill Clinton got at the start of their first terms in office."

Just six in 10 felt that Bush was a strong leader when he took office in 2001. After the attacks of September 11, that number rose to three in four. Sixty-seven percent thought Bill Clinton was a strong leader when he took office in January 1993.
Eight in ten Americans said Obama inspires confidence, can get things done and is tough enough to be president, three characteristics Americans look for in a leader and the three qualities on which Obama got his highest scores.

He also gets higher marks than Bush did in 2001 on honesty, values, issues, management abilities and compassion.
The 67 percent of those polled who say they admire Obama -- his worst score -- is roughly the same as the highest that Bush got on a similar battery of questions just after he took office in 2001.

"But it is Obama's ability to inspire confidence and the perception that he is tough enough for the job that may be most important for him as the country faces fresh challenges abroad and a historically harsh economic downturn," Holland said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/31/obama.leadership.poll/index.html

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1. :-D

[AtomicKitten]

2. That's one hell of a start.

[Thrill]

3. Republicans in Congress should take a look at this. Before they start

fucking with his stimulus package next week

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Yeah

That's a whole hell of lot of REAL "political capital" to have right at the starting gate. If Republicans think that they will be rewarded for obstructionism (like they apparently WEREN'T in the last election) then, well.................:eyes:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Wow!!!

I'm glad to know that Obama won't need to fail to read his PDBs, sit frozen in a classroom for several minutes, and allow himself to be ferried around all day long in AF1 hiding from terrorists in order to meet (or exceed) Bush's post-9/11 poll numbers.

[NJmaverick]

5. I guess when you put a premium on unity and respect for all

that sort of thing is going to happen.:thumbsup:

[Kahuna]

7. Great. Take that mindless M$M, when Obama didn't go along with your

Blago hyperventilations. He remained calm and methodical as usual, while the M$M flailed away trying to make something out of nothing.

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8. kick