This paper examines the opinions of 1,541 students and 659 business and professional people concerning the business-economic policy of the Obama administration, 8 months into the new administration. Students were surveyed from nine universities. The schools were from Arkansas (2 universities with a total of 422 students participating ) : Arkansas State University (277 students) and Henderson State University (145 students), from Ohio (473 students in three colleges): the Ohio University (186 students) , Ohio State University (140 students participating) , and University of Akron (147 students)and California (646 total students participating from 4 colleges): University of California Los Angeles (321 students participating), Allan Hancock Community college (113 students), California Polytecnic College in San Luis Obispo (119 students), California Polytecnic College in San Bernardino (94 students). The business people are from the same three states and are a randomly selected group from a variety of different businesses varying in size from a retail business with 12 employees to a manufacturer employing over 2,000. They include 13 small businesses with 12 to 24 employees (total of 81 surveys were completed.), 24 medium sized firms with 25 to 100 employees with a total of 99 surveys completed, and 2 large businesses with 1,530 and 2,000 employees and a total of 284 surveys completed. Of the two large businesses one was unionized the other was not. Union membership in all businesses with a mixed retail and production population contained a union population of 21.12%. California and Ohio are strong union states while Arkansas has right to work laws making unionization rare. We began by sending out over 3,000 surveys which instructors and business people were asked to participate in our survey. The business people were all contacted through their local Chamber of Commerce. We used a question opinion survey. In addition we asked 123 adults randomly selected from each state to act as a control group bringing the total number of subjects in the study to 2,323. We asked for whom did you vote in the presidential election of 2008. The results were fairly close with 34.93 % voting for John McCain and 45.01% Obama and 20.06% other candidates or not voting in the last election 2008. In the last election Ohio cast their votes for Obama in a very close election, California was a strongly Obama state while John McCain won in Arkansas. I examined the responses using the following x factors: Gender, Race, and College Student. Business owner, Party Affiliation, State of residency, and Major in College for students only and all turned out to be significant predictors of opinion at the .01 level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]