Gallup: President‘s Priorities Not Aligned With Voters’ Concerns
- Posted on July 30, 2012 at 1:58pm by
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Despite repeatedly telling the American people that increasing taxes on the wealthy and investing billions of dollars in alternative fuel sources is important, American voters simply aren’t on board with President Obama’s top priorities, according to a new USA Today and Gallup poll.*
What are voters concerned about?
“Creating good jobs, reducing corruption in the federal government, and reducing the federal budget deficit,” Gallup’s Jeffery M. Jones writes. “Americans assign much less importance to increasing taxes on wealthy Americans and dealing with environmental concerns.”
“Job creation’s position at the top of the list is consistent with various measures of issue salience or importance Gallup has asked this year,” he adds.
Polling question: “Next, how important a priority should each of the following issues be for the next president — extremely important, very important, somewhat important, or not that important. How about — [RANDOM ORDER]?”
“Corruption in government usually ranks as an important issue when it is asked about specifically, though it is not as top-of-mind as jobs or the economy,” the report adds.
Americans are also concerned about terrorism and threats from abroad as well as fixing/maintaining Social Security, Medicare, and our nation’s schools.
The poll also shows that although they differ on how the issues should be approached, both Romney and Obama supporters agree that job creation and reducing government corruption are of paramount importance.
“Romney supporters rate reducing the federal budget deficit as more important than Obama supporters do. In fact, slightly more Romney supporters say reducing the deficit is extremely important (51%) than say creating jobs is (48%),” Jones reports.
“Likewise, 50% of Obama supporters assign high importance to making healthcare available and affordable, two percentage points more than their rating of any other issue,” he adds.
Of course, as can be expected, Romney and Obama supporters differ greatly on healthcare, the environment, education, and tax increases.
“Figures represent percentage saying issue is extremely important. Data are ranked by Obama-Romney difference” (click to enlarge)
However, note that environmental concerns and increasing taxes on the wealthy are low priorities for both Obama and Romney supporters. Considering how much President Obama has placed an emphasis on the environment and taxation, it’s somewhat surprising to see that his supporters don’t feel the same way.
So what’s the takeaway? Jones sums it up nicely:
Americans’ to-do list for the president on Jan. 20, 2013 — whether it be Obama or Romney — includes creating good jobs, reducing government corruption, and reducing the federal budget deficit. Supporters of both candidates agree about the importance of jobs and corruption …
Job creation has certainly been and will continue to be a major topic during the remainder of the campaign. And both candidates will surely need to outline their plans for reducing the federal budget deficit.
“The candidate who Americans think has the better plans on each of these issues will have an advantage. As of now, Americans believe Romney is better able to handle jobs and the deficit than Obama is,” the report adds.
View methodology, full question results, and trend data.
*As always, keep in mind the existence of “sampling errors,” that is, the possibility of inaccuracies in the polling data.
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Comments (47)
GramSam
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 5:27pmRomney is in Israel, Poland and the UK while BO is at fundraisers. This is how it has been for his entire term. Time to clean house and get rid of all the commies.
Report Post »georgette
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 10:32amWhen men who stand in front of a mirror are dazzled by their own reflections, it comes as no surprise that they see little else.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 5:10pmThe President’s priorities are aligned withe the NWO and the banking interests.We don’t count. In fact they want to rid us.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 5:31pmBack when Bush was in all everyone talked about was Billion in waste. With Obama we went to trillions. 5.5 Billion in 3.5 years is a record that I hope to never see broken. The rest of the country can learn from us dumb Okies and our term limits. The whole country can learn from the example that Tom Colburn has set and he is known from coast to coast. All those politicians that only go into politics for a carrer will only do what is best for them and their carrers, not for what they can do for the country. This is both parties. The Fathers of the country recoginized this and wanted a one term for all because they knew greed would come into play.
Report Post »charjan
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:54pmWell this is certainly not new developing news. He hasn’t listened to the people since day “one” of this reign. Guess how much he‘ll be concerned with the peoples’ concerns during the next four? His agenda is Cloward/Priven Plan and he is on track…
Report Post »Ch
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:49pmGallop…finally figured that out–did ya?
Report Post »needmoinfo
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:37pmNo really. You just figured that out? I have relatives that plan to vote for him again. You can’t fix stupid. If he gets elected again I guess we deserve to lose it all.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:08pmI see it as amazing that in a NBC poll, 4 out of 5 CEO’s donate to Romney. That tells me that 1 in 5 CEO’s are dumb enough to stick the gun in their own mouth. Socialism has no place for business leaders and 1 in 5 bosses still don’t get it. They should tell us who they are so we can avoid their stock.
Report Post »TheLiberalsAreComing
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:58pmDoesn’t anyone get it yet. The king’s (er, president’s) priorities are lobster dinners at Martha’s Vineyard, Steak dinners in Hawaii, and anything Valerie Jarrett wants.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 6:56amOne of the main things that Valarie wants is to disenfranchise the average American voter. Sweet Old Barack and her have decided that only people who make large campaign contributions get to vote. They also get government loan guarantees, government grants and and special tax breaks. If you speak out against the administration you get investigated by the FBI and audited by the IRS. The polls will be guarded by NBPP members armed with AK 47s with orders to enforce rhe vote for Sweet Old Barack or don’t vote at all regulation.
OMG Nov 6, 2012
Report Post »incognito.groucho
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:23pmUSACommoner, I must agree with you wholeheartedly except for the fact that Arpaio, by his own admission, was only investigating the validity of the birth certificate that was posted on the White house Website and was not trying to prove if Obama was a natural born citizen. I don’t know if Obama is “natural born” or not but I do think Arpaio has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the posted birth certificate has been manipulated and that it brings into question it’s authenticity.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:17pmHe hasn’t had a cabinet meeting in 7 months……his priorities are golf and vacations and fundraising…..using his own words in recent interview, “ I have a laziness about me ” this man keeps telling everybody what exactly he stands for……..and what he is……..unreal, why are we surprised ?
Report Post »USACommoner
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 5:24pmGrouch, I agree with you, too, but the good sheriff has simply provided me (or us) with more of a reason to get to the voting booth on time. I wasn’t interested in watching any of the primaries because I already KNEW who I was voting for. new black panthers be d@mned – I won’t be intimidated :)
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:17pmHere is his record http://american-trojan-horse.blogspot.com/ Also the record for our congress.. Its a very long list of treason and betrayals.
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 4:18pmGood site – — everyone should visit this.
Report Post »It’s a LONG list of Obama failures — and Democratic – I mean Socialist policies
barber2
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:17pmObama came complete with a packaged agenda which not only has nothing to do with voters’ concerns, it also has nothing to do with America’s concern or our best interest. He is an international Lefty drone sent here to “change” America into another version of the international Left : anti-military; anti-guns; anti-capitalism; anti-Isreal; anti- traditional alliances ; anti- traditional religious values. This is not your grandfather’s Democrat Party . Nobama 2012 . No Democrats Ever again
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:06pmDisastrous Obama’s priorities are the 2016 Chicago Olympics, NASA Muslim Outreach, Travel opportunities, Re-election Campaigning, and Golf /Golf vacations. Oh and Soros directives via Axelrod and Company. Cops acted stupidly – You didn’t build that… be more China. Play more ball.
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:38pmComrade you forgot several of his more important priorities. Like turning America into a 3rd world country. Eliminating the middle class. Class warfare, racial warfare, sexual warefare. Then there is the bankrupting of the country to facilitate One World Government and One World Currency. Eliminating our civil rights, along with the Constitution.
Report Post »Well, when you elect a Communist, you should expect communism!
Revere2
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:00pmDay 1 of his presidency he starting to push his agenda, and it sure as hell wasn’t aligned with the voter. Even to this day it’s not.
Report Post »PRESENTSOFMIND
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:47pmObama isn’t the least bit interested in what we want. If he gets to finish what he and his minions started, we won’t matter anyway. I can hear the quintessential mad scientist laugh coming from him every time I see him on TV.
Report Post »Arshloch
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:46pmHe is not interested in the voter, only kissing the arab prat.
Report Post »mils
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 3:05pmagree with Eric the red…
plus now…china and canada are teaming up..so good bye to those jobs…
we are allowing our country to be bullied by liberals that are trying to destroy us.
AND…NONE OF THIS STARTED WITH OBAMA!!!…NONE OF IT…REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME YOU HEARD “ONE WORLD ORDER” FROM A POLITICIAN??????? FOR US IT WAS GEORGE 1…OBAMA IS MERELY CARRYING THE DEMOCRAT LIBERAL ALINSKY TORCH TO THE FINISH!!
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:44pmRule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.
Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people.
The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”
Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:45pmRule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.
Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:46pmThese are SAUL ALINSKY’s RULES FOR RADICALS — Any of this sound familiar?
Report Post »tomacz
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:41pmthe peoples republic of kalifornistan likes him look what this gang did for them
Report Post »USACommoner
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:30pm“…American voters simply aren’t on board with President Obama’s top priorities…”
Report Post »~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Duh. What was your first d@mned clue…?
HKS
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:25pmI don’t think there is really much market for a “progressive world order”, folks just like to do their own thing and take care of themselves. Not real interested in supporting a whole world of freeloaders, got enough of them right here. Doing nothing should not be the best option for people, makes them discontent with themselves.
Report Post »incognito.groucho
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:25pmI admire Glen Beck and I agree with most of his political analysis but He and the Blaze do seem to be deathly afraid of reporting on Joe Arpaio‘s legitimate investigation of Obama’s birth certificate.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:34pmI have wondered about that myself, Trump also has one but all are hush, hush.
Report Post »USACommoner
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:39pmGrouch, I think since this is such a touchy subject, there are many others who have distanced themselves from it as well. It would be such an easy way for the other side to preach “craziness” even more than they already do. There is surely enough dung about this administration without having to go there…let’s just stick to the prove-able for now.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:24pmObama is keeping to his own agenda, declared five days before his nomination: “…In five days we begin the fundamental transformation of the United States of America.”
The systematic socialization and reduction of the nation, to forge it into a new image and governance, styled after his utopian madness of reality, is what he will finish if he gets a second term; and if he does, the blood will flow across the nation in an amount never seen before.
With the growing threat from Homeland Security; I have the feeling we will be under a declaration of martial law just before the elections.
Report Post »Larry E
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:24pmNot really too surprising to me. Glorious Leader has spent most of his life learning from far left people and hanging out with them so he believes that everyone thinks like they do. If he’d hung around with normal everyday Americans after he arrived in the continental USA he might believe differently, but maybe not.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:17pmOabma’s campaign has tried so hard..and continues to try hard to change the discussion from the economy to Romney’s history with Bain and his tax returns…and it’s clearly not working. Over $100 million dollars spent in battleground state ads….and it’s still not working.
Report Post »You know the focus group obsessed Obama campaign in panicking right now.
Stelex
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:17pmWhat are the Presidents priorities? Near as I can tell……in order of importance.
Report Post »1…..Destroy the fabric of America
2…..Receive adoration from the mindless few and the media
3…..Golf
Yeah, I don’t think they jibe with what most want.
BeckIgnoresConstitution
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:12pmStop vote fraud.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, … that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, … Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – Declaration of Independence
Obama routinely Omits ‘Creator’ when speaking of unalienable rights.
Glenn must stop omitting Art 2, Sec 1, of the Constitution when speaking of Obama!
“The usurper Obama is not eligible for multiple reasons including:
1. Failure to be a “natural born citizen” as required by Article 2, Section 1.
2. Being born a British citizen pursuant to British Nationality Act of 1948.
3. Law enforcement investigators have concluded his birth certificate is fraudulent, which along with other identity anomalies i.e., suspected fraudulent selective service registration, suspected fraudulent social security number(s) and multiple aliases, very likely means Obama is not even a U.S. citizen!
The most authoritative source for the meaning of a “natural born citizen” as one born in U.S. of U.S. citizen parents (plural), is in fact the Constitution. The meaning of a natural born citizen is further confirmed by American history, the Founders, Congress and the Supreme Court.”[1]
1. http://www.obamabirthcertificate.net/2012/07/summary-of-obamas-ineligibility.html
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 2:09pmHow’s that “Bust” thing working out for you barry ..
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