How is Obama doing? (3)
Tomorrow Barack Obama will have been US President exactly one year and there’s lots of media analysis on his challenging and troubled first year.
In this piece, it points out:
“A poll for the Pew Research Centre last month showed that 84% of Democratic party voters identified as liberal believe the president is doing an excellent or good job “in standing up for the traditional positions of the Democratic party”. Support among conservative and moderate Democrats, who often tend to lean toward conservative positions, stood at 69%.
That’s the good news from the poll for Obama. The bad news is that it shows that broader public opinion has moved to the right on many issues since he came to power, particularly in greater opposition to abortion rights, gun control and scepticism about global warming.”
If you read Obama’s book “Dreams From My Father” [my review here]. you will see that this former community organiser knows all about uphill struggles.