The Americans hold a dim view of the US Economic Outlook: poll

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Washington | Fri April 22, 2011 8 pm

Washington (Reuters)-Americans are more pessimistic about the Economic Outlook of the us than most since the beginning of the Obama administration believe the United States is in the wrong, according to new survey of the New York Times, the Central Bureau of statistics released on Thursday.

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Seventy percent said that the country was the title of mamshibim in the wrong and think not President Barack Obama and the Republican Congress to share their priorities for the country, the poll showed.

Dour mood is dragging down performance ratings for President Barack Obama, both parties in Congress with the 2012 election season already in progress, the poll found.

Fifty-seven percent of mamshibim said they disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy, while 75 percent said they disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job.

While Washington is consumed with the debate on reducing the deficit, the Americans seemed unsure about the impact of cutting a defeats the United States economy.

Approximately 29% of those polled said the cut more jobs, defeats production, while 29 percent said cutting deficit will cost jobs and 27 percent have no effect on the employment outlook.

A survey has found considerable support of the Obama proposal to raise taxes on the rich, 72 percent approved of the idea as a way to mamshibim to see the deficit.

A certificate of Obama stood at 46%, while 45 percent did not approve the performance in office.

More than half of the respondents to the poll, 56 percent, said that the positive view of the Republicans in Congress, as opposed to 37 percent who said they did.

The Democratic Party fared slightly better, with 49 percent approval rating compared with 44 percent disapproval.

Mature phone survey was conducted Friday through 1,224 Wednesday and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.

(Reporting by Joan Allen; author Todd Eastham)

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