While Republicans continue to pressure the White House on a recent trio of scandals, the results of a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday show that American voters think the priority should be dealing with the economy.
Republicans in Congress have recently been hammering the Obama administration over the IRS targeting scandal, allegations of a cover-up related to the deadly attacks in Benghazi and the secret subpoena of Associated Press phone records.
However, the Quinnipiac poll found that 73 percent of voters, including 60 percent of Republicans, think the higher priority should be dealing with the economy and unemployment.
Just 22 percent of voters said investigating the scandals should be the higher priority. Thirty-four percent of Republicans said the scandals should be the higher priority compared to just 8 percent of Democrats.
Nonetheless, the poll suggests that the scandals have still had a negative impact on President Barack Obama's approval rating.
Forty-five percent of voters said they approve of the way Obama is handling his job as president, down from 48 percent in a poll conducted in late April.
Quinnipiac noted that Obama's biggest drop in approval was among independent voters, who give him a negative 37 percent to 57 percent rating in the latest survey.
Of the three scandals facing the administration, 44 percent of voters said the IRS targeting scandal is the most important, while 24 percent said Benghazi and 15 percent said the AP records seizure.
The Quinnipiac survey of 1,419 registered voters was conducted May 22nd through 28th and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.
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