Mod: I suspect that most people see Obama as 'more effective' than the Fat Orange Guy in just about every category, but at least here's a start.
New Yahoo News /YouGov poll shows Americans view Obama as 'more effective' than Trump on Iran (
Yahoo Newslink): According to a new
Yahoo News/YouGov poll,
Americans are evenly divided over
President Trump’s decision to kill
Iranian military leader
Qassem Soleimani, but a plurality of the public opposes
Trump’s overall approach to the
Islamic Republic and believes his
Democratic predecessor
Barack Obama was more effective in dealing with
Tehran.
Conducted from Jan. 8 to 10 — after
Iranian ballistic missiles struck
Iraqi bases in retaliation without causing
American casualties and
Trump declared that “Iran appears to be standing down” — the poll found that 42 percent of Americans opposed
Trump’s approach to
Iran (versus 36 percent who supported it). Forty percent said
Trump was wrong to withdraw from the
Obama administration’s nuclear treaty with
Tehran (versus 35 percent who said he was right), while 41 percent said
Trump has been less effective on Iran than
Obama (versus 34 percent who said the current president has been more effective). On all three questions, about a quarter of respondents said they were either not sure or neutral.
The percentage of the public (38 percent) that approved of
Trump’s decision to kill
Soleimani, which his campaign has been touting in fundraising emails and
Facebook ads, is statistically indistinguishable from the percentage that disapproved (37 percent) — a divide that may stem from the fact that only a third of
Americans believe the administration’s claim that
Soleimani was planning an “imminent” attack on the
U.S. (A slightly smaller proportion — 29 percent — disbelieved the claim; the rest were unsure.)
More
Americans also said
Trump’s handling of recent events in the
Middle East made them less likely to support him in the 2020 election (35 percent) than said they were more likely to support him as a result (29 percent). A plurality (36 percent) said his approach would have no effect on their vote.
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