Gallup Poll: 63% disapprove of US govt

[unknownprince]

63% disapprove of US govt.: Gallup poll
Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:40PM

PressTV - 63% disapprove of US govt.: Gallup poll


Over 60 percent of US citizens have a negative view of the US federal government, according to a recent public opinion poll.


The survey, which was conducted by Gallup Poll on Monday, showed that 63 percent disapprove of US President Barack Obama's administrationan.

Only 17 percent of the respondents had a positive view of the US administration.

The poll asked people about their views on 25 business and industry sectors.

This is the first time the US federal government has finished in last place in the positive view category.

The US federal government also finished in second to last place in the negative view category, one point above the oil and gas industry, which received a negative rating of 64 percent.

The decline in US citizens' view of the federal government began in 2004 as concerns rose over George W. Bush's mismanagement of the Iraq war.

While Gallup noted a small increase in citizens' view of the US government after Obama's inauguration, the downward trend continued shortly afterwards.

Obama's job disapproval rating has also reached an all-time high of 55 percent according to another poll conducted by Gallup.

Less than 38 percent of the respondents said that they approve of Obama's performance as president.

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[Bengal_Tiger]

Unless the Obama administration can turn things around, it looks like he's on his way out.

However he can then at the age of around 50 -

enjoy the glory of being the first black president in history,

enjoy the prestige of having been the chief executive of the most powerful organization in the world (president of the US federal government)

claim he was blocked by a majority Republican congress and was a victim of 8 years of Bush's economic failure

write more books and be a speaker on the lecture circuit and start up some personal charity foundation like Jimmy Carter or Bill Gates..

I mean once you've become the president of the US and the man with the button on the red button, what else can you do? Everything else is in a way a kind of anti-climax.

P.S. He has also won the Nobel Peace Prize not something that the Bushes, Clinton, Reagan, Kennedy, Nixon etc could do.

[retro]

Obama has doubled the U.S. national debt and his approval rating has collapsed, due to the US's economic crisis.