MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to a CNN/ORC survey, 52 percent of respondents said they were dissatisfied with Obama’s policies as president, while 47 percent said they approved of them. The number respondents disapproving of Obama’s presidency has been higher than those approving of it since August.
A total of 60 percent of respondents said they were dissatisfied with Obama’s response to the treat of terrorism, while 64 percent said that Obama was poorly handling the problem of the Islamic State (IS or Daesh, outlawed in Russia) jihadist group insurgency.
The United States has waged the War on Terror since 2001, with major military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and current operations against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.