November 21, 2009
Helping The Medicine Go Down
Dr. Obama may need more than a spoon full of sugar to heal his party.
President Barack Obama has rebounded from a dismal summer, and he and his party are poised to pass a comprehensive health care reform bill, something that has not been done since Lyndon Johnson's Medicare legislation more than 40 years ago.
Our latest Zogby Interactive poll measuring Obama's job approval among likely voters has him back over 50% for the first time since the spring. He has won back some Independents, and now 47% give Obama their approval. Obama's level of support among the party base of liberals, the 18- to 29-year-old "First Globals" and all African-Americans suffered in August when they felt he was not taking charge of health care reform. But now, most all of them are back on board.
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