Poll: Voters more confident in Obama to deal with bailout crisis

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Bailout, Obama favored: Poll finds
Voters express more confidence in Obama than McCain in handling the crisis.
Posted September 23, 2008 6:30 PM
The Swamp

by Mark Silva


By a margin of nearly two-to-one, Americans surveyed say the federal government is doing the right thing in intervening in the financial market credit crunch, and by a double-digit margin most voters say that Democrat Barack Obama is better-suited than Republican John McCain to deal with the crisis at hand.

In the first full look at the public's reaction to the bailout that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson unveiled over the weekend, 57 percent of those surveyed by the Pew Research Center in Washington on Friday through Monday said the government was doing the right thing -- and just 30 percent called the intervention the wrong thing.

"Support for the administration's plan to bailout many of the nation's troubled financial institutions is largely bipartisan,'' Pew President Andrew Kohut reports.

The Sept. 19-22 survey of 1,003 adults also found that more voters view Obama as the presdential candidate best able to address the financial crisis :47 percent favoring Obama on that count, 35 percent McCain. Among independent voters, it's Obama 44, McCain 30 on that question.

For more on public attitudes toward the bailout and Obama and McCain, see the Pew Center poll.







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