Harrisburg Patriot-News
If President Barack Obama is using the nation’s fiscal woes for his own political benefit, the short term impact suggests otherwise.
The president had been riding an approval rating above 50 percent all year, peaking at 54 percent in early January.
But after the sequester debacle — the latest in a series of Washington budgetary missteps — Obama’s approval has dipped to 49 percent, according to the poll.
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