Pollster.com: US: Obama Transition (Gallup-12/1)

> Pollster.com

Free Trial

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Articles and Analysis

December 2, 2008

US: Obama Transition (Gallup-12/1)

By Eric Dienstfrey

USA Today / Gallup
12/1/08; 1,010 adults, 3% margin of error
Mode: Live Telephone Interviews
(story, results)

National

Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his presidential transition?

Do you approve or disapprove of Barack Obama's choice of Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state?

As you may know, Barack Obama has asked Robert Gates, the secretary of defense for President Bush, to stay on the job for at least a year to continue dealing with the Iraq war and other matters of national defense. Do you approve or disapprove of having Robert Gates stay on as secretary of defense?

Barack Obama says that once he takes office he will push Congress to pass a large spending package, estimated by others at $500 billion to $700 billion, to spur economic growth. Would you favor or oppose such a measure?

By Eric Dienstfrey on December 2, 2008 3:49 PM | Permalink

Comments

RS:

Hey Eric: you forgot to mention Professor Franklin's appearance in the USA Today story :-)

Americans are "projecting their hopes" for the new president, says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison who studies polling, but they will expect concrete results to follow.
"He'll have a season of good will," Franklin says, but over time "it's going to become increasingly Obama's economy rather than Bush's economy."

Posted on December 2, 2008 8:51 PM

____________________

Post a comment

URL:

Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style)

Please be patient while your comment posts - sometimes it takes a minute or two. To check your comment, please wait 60 seconds and click your browser's refresh button. Note that comments with three or more hyperlinks will be held for approval.

Please email us to report offensive comments.

See our comment policy here. Note that we require commenters to share their email address via Typekey. We will never share your email address with anyone without your explicit permission.