CBS poll: 75% say stimulus useless or harmful

The visceral sense among Americans is that Obama's agenda is the wrong one:

Fifty-seven percent say the country is on the "wrong track," up from 50 percent last month.

Despite White House efforts to stress the implementation of the stimulus package, just 21 percent say it has had a positive impact on the economy. The majority of those surveyed - 60 percent - say it has had no impact, while 15 percent say the stimulus has made the economy worse.

So a full three-quarters of respondents see the stimulus as either useless or worse than useless. That's a lot of people believing that massive quantities of their taxpayer dollars have been dumped into a rat hole.

Rasmussen, as of yesterday, shows Obama's "approval index" holding at -8.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 28% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-six percent (36%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –8 (see trends).

Overall, 53% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Forty-six percent (46%) disapprove.

I would encourage the Democrats to keep talking about the need for a second stimulus. Americans are becoming more and more turned off by it.

Officially Obama is saying that the stimulus has "worked" and that a second one isn't needed. But he surely senses that 'stimulus" is rapidly becoming a dirty word. Perhaps he and Congress will try to pass another monstrous spending bill but try to disguise it with a more palatable and less recognizable name.

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