Posted on 08/02/2009 11:40:11 AM PDT by Schnucki
US President Barack Obama's support among white voters has plummeted, imperilling his ambitious political agenda.
His support among white voters fell to below 50 per cent for the first time in his presidency following his accusation the police "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard professor,
A Pew research poll found that 53 per cent of white voters approved of Mr Obama's job performance before his prime-time intervention in the furore over whether Sergeant Joseph Crowley, a white officer, was right to arrest Henry Louis Gates Jr, a black studies professor.
This dropped to 46 per cent in just two days as many white supporters reacted with dismay to Mr Obama's statement, which he tried to rectify by arranging a "beer summit" at the White House in which he and Vice President Joe Biden sipped their chosen brews in the Rose Garden under the gaze of the media.
Mr Obama's overall popularity remains just over 50 per cent but his failure to secure a health care bill before the August congressional recess, partly attributable to the distraction caused by the race debate, could be an ominous portent.
Andrew Kohut, head of the Pew Research Centre, said that Mr Obama needed a legislative victory or a change in the economic downturn for his political fortunes to improve. "They need to give people some sense of success. If the economy begins to improve, that will help enormously."
The success of Mr Obama's presidential campaign was based on his ability to win an overwhelming proportion of black voters while at the same time securing broad support among white voters, many of whom were attracted by the Illinois senator's appeal to a post-racial future.
White voters also acted on what they saw as their economic self-interest with the so-called Reagan Democrats - blue-collar industrial
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What you talkin’ about, Willis?
How bout them Jews?
Dey’s racis.
They will will be housed accordingly with this administration I’m sure.
What I really wonder is why he ever had support among any voters (outside of the freeloaders that make up the base of the democrat party) regardless of race.
Honkeys!
People take a dim view of someone who wants to murder them.
But, as dictators go; they have no friends; so his little plan is going to include everyone.
Duh. Well, they got what they asked for didn’t they?
White people are waking up to the reality that BO Plenty’s agenda to eliminate white people is coming to fruition at an accerating pace. Whites have everything to lose, from their jobs and the merit concept of getting hired and promoted.
Seniors will soon realize that BO is looting Medicare and Social Security payroll to shorten the financial life of these two programs.
Next comes deliberate Marxist policies to kill newly born infants and chronically ill elders not thought to be worthy of living due to their medical problems to save money.
Pol Pot singled out anyone wearing glasses for the killing fields because if you had glasses you were capable of reading, and therefore you were capable of thinking. Any white people who can read and think is a real danger to BO Plenty and his entire Marxist administration. He needs to have vocal white people exterminated to pave the way for his utopian vision of totally transforming our republic into his petetual dictatorship.
I guess we can expect another czar appointment. The “Improvin my image among the racist whitey’s” czar.
Wake me up when white support drops to 30%.
The polls never reflect illegals or dead people.
Those groups are still steadfast for Baraq.
Here’s hoping they are over their “white guilt” enough NOT to vote for him a second time!
The problem is not necessarily the Gates fiasco. No matter what Obama says or does, his support among black voters will stay up near 100%. So there’s no point in measuring the reaction of those voters to any specific activity on his part. I suspect Hispanic voters are somewhat likely to follow suit. So the ONLY significant group of voters likely to fluctuate in their reaction to Obama are whites. Even if they are in fact responding negatively to his policy proposals, their reaction can then be blamed on race issues.
Who would have thought that all those enlightened white Obama voters were racists all along? As we all know, racism is the only possible explanation for opposing Obama.
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