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Just 19% of voters nationwide believe that President Obama achieved most of his goals during his first year in office. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 70% hold the opposite view and say he did not accomplish those goals.

Republicans and unaffiliated voters overwhelmingly say the president did not achieve most of his goals. Forty-nine percent (49%) of Democrats agree, but 31% of those in the president’s party say he did accomplish them.

“President Obama appears to have earned an incomplete for his first year in office,” notes Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports. “Mid-term grades will be issued in November, and a lot can happen between now and then.”

Voters also are skeptical about claims the president made in his State-of-the-Union speech Wednesday night concerning tax cuts, economic growth and job creation.

After his first year in office, 35% give Obama good or excellent marks for his handling of the economy, and 40% say the same about national security. Seventy-two percent (72%) view the president as politically liberal (see Obama By the Numbers).For most of the past month, just under half of the nation’s voters have approved of the way he has handled his overall job as president (see daily Presidential Tracking Poll.

Confidence about the War on Terroris at the lowest level since the middle of 2007, and just 36% now believe the United States is safer than it was before the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.

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