Obama Rotations

Voters Are Slightly More Aware of New Treasury Secretary

Voters haven’t changed their opinions much about newly confirmed Obama Cabinet members John Kerry and Jack Lew.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 18% of Likely U.S. Voters have a favorable opinion of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, including five percent (5%) who view him Very Favorably. Twenty-five percent (25%) view Lew unfavorably, with 11% who share a Very Unfavorable opinion of him. A majority of voters (56%) still have no opinion of the new secretary of the Treasury. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on March 2-3, 2013 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

Where The President Stands with Voters – Issue by Issue

President Obama’s latest State of the Union speech is expected to be a laundry list of issues he considers important as he sets the nation’s course for the next four years.

Obama continues to enjoy some of the highest job approval ratings of his presidency in the daily Presidential Tracking Poll, even though just 39% of Likely U.S. Voters think the nation is heading in the right direction. Still, that’s a big improvement from a year ago at this time when only 29% felt that way.

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