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VIDEO From Paul Steinhauser CNN Deputy Political Director Decrease font Decrease font Enlarge font Enlarge font WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Call it a case of great expectations. Most people believe President-elect Barack Obama will change America when he takes over from his predecessor. Most people believe President-elect Barack Obama will change America when he takes over from his predecessor. A new national poll suggests that most Americans think Barack Obama will make major accomplishments as president of the United States. Nearly two-thirds of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday say President-elect Barack Obama will change the country for the better, with 25 percent saying Obama won't change the country and 9 percent indicating that he will change the country for the worse.
"I just hope that the bureaucracy and the typical procedures of Washington don't weigh him down or hold him back or lead him in a new direction." Expectations are high not just in America but around the world.
Poll: Obama a 'dream come true' for blacks The public thinks it's likely that Obama will improve race relations, improve economic conditions, bring stability to the financial markets, make the US safer from terrorism, reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil, reduce global warming, win the war in Afghanistan and remove US troops from Iraq without causing a major upheaval in that country.
Watch how Obama is deliberately picking his team "The bar is being set awfully high for an Obama presidency," CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. Seventy-six percent say conditions in the country will improve four years from now, with the remaining 24 percent saying that's not likely.
That number jumps to 99 percent when asked only of black Americans, and it drops to 41 percent when asked only of Republicans. The overall 75 percent favorable rating "makes Obama the most popular president-elect in at least a quarter of a century," said Holland. In November 1980, after his landslide victory over incumbent President Carter, Ronald Reagan's favorable rating was 67 percent. Eight years later, the elder George Bush had a favorable rating of only 50 percent immediately after his win in the 1988 election. When Bill Clinton beat Bush four years later, his favorable rating was 60 percent just after the election.
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