Most Americans want President Obama to change the way he leads the country — including almost half of the voters in his own party, a new poll says.
The results of a NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey released Monday show that 67 percent of registered voters would like to see either “a great deal of change” or “quite a bit of change” to Obama’s leadership direction.
Twenty-three percent called for “just some change,” while only 8 percent said the president should make “not that much change” to his direction.
Among Democratic voters, 47 percent said they want major changes in the way the president runs his administration, while 39 percent said he should make just some change. Another 12 percent of Democrats said the president shouldn’t change much in way he leads the country, the survey said.
Eighty-seven percent of Republican voters, not surprisingly, say want they want substantial changes to way Obama conducts White House business.
But it’s not certain how the country’s views about the president’s leadership relate to Tuesday’s midterm elections, as only 25 percent of the survey’s respondents who want Republicans to regain full control of Congress say they support such as move specifically to protest the administration.
The poll of 1,200 registered voters was conducted from Thursday through Saturday, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.83 percentage points.
