Washington, Feb 17 (Inditop.com) A year after President Barack Obama’s landslide victory, more than half of Americans say he doesn’t deserve re-election in 2012, according to a new poll.
Only 44 percent of all Americans said they would vote to re-elect the president in two and a half years, eight percentage points less than the 52 percent who said they would prefer to elect someone else.
Obama faces a 44-52 deficit among both all Americans and registered voters, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll released Tuesday. Four percent had no opinion. The re-election numbers are slightly more sour than Obama’s approval ratings, which are basically tied. 49 percent of people told CNN that they approve of the way Obama is handling his job, while 50 percent disapprove.
Still, the 2012 election is still a long way away. With the midterm elections looming large, Republicans are hoping to make inroads into Congress, while Democrats are hoping to hold onto gains won in the 2006 and 2008 cycles.
Respondents to CNN were split at 46 percent as to whether they preferred a generic Republican or Democratic candidate in the November elections.
At least one retiring lawmaker is confident Obama will sail to re-election, with Democratic Senator Chris Dodd predicting Monday the president would win “overwhelmingly” in 2012.
The CNN poll, conducted Feb 12-15, has a three percent margin of error.
