President Obama's attempts to improve the public's opinion about his health-care bill shows
A) presidents can move the public about six percentage points toward policies they favor.
B) presidents have more success influencing the public when the economy is bad.
C) presidential efforts to influence public opinion are likely to fail.
D) presidents' own job approval ratings can decline even as their public outreach succeeds.
E) the public is more likely to defer to the president's opinion when the legislation in question is extremely complex.
C
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