a majority of americans in a cnn/orc poll said donald trump will do at least a fairly good job as president. | ap photo by brent griffiths 11/22/16 09:48 am est two weeks after the election, 45 percent of respondents in a cnn/orc poll out tuesday said they disapprove of president-elect donald trump. but the poll also finds more americans are optimistic about his presidency <u+2014> although the responses are heavily polarized. fifty-three percent of americans surveyed said trump will do at least a fairly good job as president. fourteen percent said his job performance will be fairly poor, and 30 percent said he will do a very poor job. story continued below those numbers lag significantly behind what americans felt about then president-elect barack obama eight years ago. shortly after his election, 75 percent of respondents said obama would do at least a fairly good job as president. twenty-one percent said he would do a fairly or very poor job and were pessimistic about his promise of change. regardless of their feelings about trump, a broad majority said it is at least somewhat likely that he will fulfill a number of campaign promises, including repealing and replacing obamacare (73 percent), renegotiating the north american free trade agreement (64 percent) and creating good-paying jobs in economically challenged areas (60 percent). the poll was conducted nationwide from nov. 17-20 with a sample of 1,003 adults. the sample included respondents reached on cellphones and traditional landlines. the margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points. by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
poll: 53 percent say trump will do a fairly good job as president - politico
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