People are still paying attention.
Rasmussen: Over half of U.S. voters (54%) say they followed Very Closely news stories about Barack Obama’s first press conference as president-elect yesterday, and nearly as many (52%) say he set the right tone in his remarks.
Another 26% say they followed news of Obama’s Chicago press conference somewhat closely, and just six percent (6%) say they did not follow news of it at all, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken Friday night.
Twenty-eight percent (28%) do not think Obama set the right tone in his remarks. One-out-of-five (20%) are not sure.
Despite the criticism that has been leveled at the current occupant of the White House, just over half of voters (52%) expect President Obama to do a better job on the economy than President Bush. Thirty percent (30%) disagree, and 18 % are undecided.
