The Week in Polls: July 28

Americans’ views on politics and the economy.

Barack Obama - Obama 2012 is reportedly preparing to make Republican frontrunner and likely nominee Mitt Romney a huge target by attacking his character and business background, Politico reports.  The campaign will highlight a "weirdness factor" and Romney's record as CEO of Bain Capitol, a consulting firm that created and eliminated jobs. The campaign will allegedly take notes from the political playbook employed by former President George W. Bush when he beat Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry in 2004.
D'Evils - George W, Bush was hardly a favorite among hip hop heads, but Rick Ross still has a tattoo of the much-vilified commander in chief. Applying the philosphy "keep your enemies closer," Ross sports a image of Bush wearing devil horns near his right armpit.
Throw the Bums Out? - A USA Today/Gallup poll survey found that a record low number of Americans (21 percent) say that members of Congress deserve to be re-elected. Only 14 percent of independents say most members deserve re-election, compared with 24 percent of Republican and 26 percent of Democratic voters.Presidents and Religion - A majority of Americans at 56 percent believe it's important that presidential candidates have strong religious beliefs, a Public Religion Research Institute/Religious News Service has found. Interestingly, the two groups who most firmly believe this, 73 percent of white evangelicals and 74 percent of ethnic minority Christians, don't actually know what religions many politicians practice. Only 44 percent of white evangelicals and 21 percent of ethnic minority Christians know that Mitt Romney is a Mormon and only one in three Americans can correctly state that President Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim.(Photo: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Raising the Debt Ceiling - The more Washington lawmakers disagree about how to raise the debt ceiling, the more the public wants them to reach a compromise. A new Pew Research Center survey found that 68 percent of Americans say that lawmakers who agree that the debt ceiling must be raised should be willing to compromise even if they don't like the ultimate deal. The survey also found that 56 percent believe that President Obama and Republicans will make a deal before the Aug. 2 deadline.(Photo: AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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