Majorities of voters in three states likely to be crucial in the 2016 presidential election disapprove of the job President Obama is doing, according to results from a poll released Monday.
Mr. Obama has a negative 42 percent/55 percent approve/disapprove split in Colorado, a 40 percent/56 percent split in Iowa, and a 45 percent/53 percent split in Virginia, the Quinnipiac poll said.
Voters are somewhat ambivalent toward ongoing negotiations Mr. Obama’s administration is working on with respect to Iran’s nuclear program. By a nearly 3-to-1 margin in each state, they favor a negotiated settlement “in which the U.S. and other countries would lift some of their economic sanctions against Iran, in exchange for Iran restricting its nuclear program in a way that makes it harder for it to produce nuclear weapons.”
By almost 5-to-1 margins, voters also prefer a negotiated settlement to military intervention.
But about six in 10 voters in each state also say Iran is not capable of negotiating in good faith, and at least 61 percent of voters in each state say any nuclear deal should be subject to congressional approval.
From March 29 to April 7, Quinnipiac surveyed:
• 894 Colorado voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points;
• 948 Iowa voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points;
• 961 Virginia voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.
• David Sherfinski can be reached at dsherfinski@washingtontimes.com.
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