Zogby Report Card: Confused Obama flunks Syria 101
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"Mr. President. I have been doing a lot of thinking about your term project on Syria. When you first approached me about the topic, you said that a president of the U.S. had no good options. The U.S. cannot topple Syrian President Assad because there would be more chaos in the country and the region - like Egypt, Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan (not to mention Yemen and Tunisia).
Zogby's Report Card: Abandoned by Britain, public, Obama loses Syria options
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama, deserted by the public and Britain on Syria, has lost the kind of presidential power previous presidents had in international affairs.
"Do you remember a much simpler time not so long ago when the president of the United States was the 'leader of the free world' and the 'most powerful man in the world'? That president could launch a war (by any other name) by declaring it a 'police action' or even fabricate evidence and present it to Congress (Gulf of Tonkin 1964, 'weapons of mass destruction' 2003).
Zogby Poll: Public Not As Upbeat As Economists
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By: John Zogby Forbes.com Contributor
As a growing number of economists project that unemployment may decline to 6.5% by mid-2014 and as other key indicators like housing starts, fewer mortgage foreclosures, and growing productivity appear to be pointing in a positive direction, the American public is in the middle of a major funk about their personal and the national future. These are among the findings in a new poll of 937 likely voters conducted on August 20 by Zogby Analytics. The poll has a margin of sampling error of +/-3.3 percentage points.
Zogby Report Card: Obama plays it right with go-slow approach to Syria, Egypt
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama is playing it smart by not rushing to action in Egypt or Syria.
"The probable use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime dominated the news of the week, even pushing the Egyptian crisis down from lead story. Just what are the president's options? There are no great scenarios for action against Syria because several groups that make up the opposition are unsavory, to say the least.
Obama in August: 47% Approve, 50% Disapprove
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By: John Zogby Forbes.com Contributor
Our new Zogby Analytics poll is out and President Barack Obama's approval ratings are unchanged from the our poll in July . But while the national sample of 937 likely voters shows the same 47% rating, the President's disapproval rating is now at 50% (3 points worse than last month). Still, a paltry 33% say that the country is headed in the right direction and the President's problem is that he only captures the support of 46% of these "right track" voters.
Zogby Report Card: Obama 'very small' on the world's 'eve of destruction'
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John Zogby's Obama Weekly Report Card is Featured in Paul Bedard's "Washington Secrets" Published weekly in The Washington Examiner
To rework the lyrics of 1960s singing sensation Barry McGuire's 'The Eve of Destruction':
'The eastern world it is explodin'; seems things ain't so pretty when people get to votin.'