Poll: Voters disapprove of job Obama doing

HAMDEN, Conn., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Most U.S. voters don't like the job President Obama is doing and more than three in four think the nation is in a recession, a Quinnipiac University poll shows.

Fifty-five percent of voters said they disapprove of Obama's job performance and 41 percent said they approve of his job performance, results released Thursday indicated.

By a 77 percent-to-20 percent tally, voters said they think the economy is in a recession. Forty-four percent of voters said they think the economy is getting worse, and 29 percent said the economy would improve if Obama were re-elected.

"The trend isn't good for President Barack Obama. His disapproval has gone up 9 points since the summer, from 46 percent in July to 52 percent in September to 55 percent today," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Hamden, Conn., said.

Voters also said they disapprove, 48 percent to 34 percent, of the way Obama is addressing the Israeli- Palestinian dispute, the poll indicated.

Concerning measures to help solve the U.S. Postal Service's financial problems, voters said they support, 79 percent to 20 percent, ending Saturday mail deliveries, the poll indicated. Fifty-three percent said they favored closing local post offices, 57 percent said they opposed providing more federal funding and 60 percent said they support raising stamp prices.

Results are based on telephone interviews with 2,118 registered voters conducted Sept. 27 to Oct. 3. The margin of error is 2.1 percentage points.