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Teasing the new NBC/WSJ poll

 

Published 6/17/2009 by Mark Murray at First Read

From NBC's Mark MurrayWe're releasing some early looks at tonight's new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. And here's one set of numbers: Just 37% believe that President Obama is taking on too many issues and is not focused enough on the most important ones. That's compared with 60% who say that Obama is focused on all of these issues because the country is facing so many problems. We'll be releasing the entire NBC/WSJ poll on NBC Nightly News, as well as on MSNBC.com, beginning at 6:30 pm...( read more ) (link)

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