Obama Less Popular in Chicago
CBS2Chicago reports:
Tonight CBS 2 spoke with people power shopping the Magnificent Mile, relaxing in Bucktown and stocking up at a South Side supermarket.
"You have to consider where we were," Chicagoan T'oni Gray said, "He walked into an office that was already messed up."
Illinois residents polled by the Chicago Tribune indicate that while 62 percent voted for him in 2008, and 59 percent approved of the job he was doing a year ago, his approval rating here has now fallen to 51 percent.
Though it's hard to get people here to criticize him.
"I'm not goin' there; he's our president," Irving Jacobson said. "You gotta stand behind him."
But when pressed a bit, he added: "I don't like the programs he's putting through."
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