Many of the promises of the election campaign in 2008 are not met, something Democrats contend that Republicans in Congress to blame for.
During a visit to a Ford plant in Michigan last week signed anyway president an optimistic picture of development.
– The US is really about to be resurrected, he said. There will probably also part of the message in State of the Union speech he will hold Tuesday.
Economic growth
Clean economical, there is little doubt that he is right. Production increases and unemployment falls, and an increasing number of Americans are optimistic about the future.
When Obama took office six years ago, said only 1 percent that the economic outlook was bright, while the proportion today has risen to 14 percent show polls.
Even greater changes are there in Americans’ views on labor. Also there was only 1 percent who were optimistic when Obama took office, while every fourth American now believe that it looks brighter.
Will not high
48 percent of Americans now believe that Obama is doing a good job as president, while 50 percent believe that he is doing a bad job and has led the country in the wrong direction.
56 percent do not think Obama has lived up to expectations and compared with previous presidents he appears not particularly popular and successful.
ABC News has calculated how much Obama has averaged scored at the polls through its six years in the White House, and reached 50 percent.
Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush obtained for comparison 58 and 57 percent on average, while Bill Clinton ended at 55 percent.
Lousy between choice
Voter dissatisfaction with Obama has also played over the Democrats, which between November election was a clear sign.
Republicans hijacked majority in the Senate and also strengthened their majority in the House of Representatives. This means that Obama will have major difficulties in implementing its policies, though he to some extent can bypass Congress.
He did both when he launched his major immigration reform, and then he just before Christmas announced that relations with Cuba should normalize.
Obama also continues to fight tooth and nail to prevent Republicans from hollowing health reform, but struggling to get voters to realize that it is a great victory.
Surprising hardly
Foreign Policy, there is little to suggest that Obama will surprise the next two years. Few if anyone thinks that he will fight fire and force a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, and even fewer believe that he will succeed in crushing the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or end the civil war in Syria before he leaves the White House.
Obama does not seem to be able to do much with Russia’s superpower ambitions and has the whole get foreign successes to show. (© NTB)
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