Posted on 08/12/2009 6:34:36 AM PDT by Obadiah
New poll from Quinnipiac University (August 5 – 9, 1,301 RV, MoE +/- 2.7 %) shows President Obama's approval rating slipping to 56%, a five point decline from last month and down from his high of 68% in June.
As you might expect, Republican and Democratic attitudes about Obama are already fixed, so Obama's job rating decline in New Jersey this month is driven entirely by defections among Independent voters.
As you can see from the graphic below, Obama has lost a net of 19 points in his job rating with Independents in the last month, and is upside down with this group of voters for the first time:
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The problem in NJ is not so much with the mushy middle - they always manage to find a liberal root on Election Day - but with nj republicans......23% think Zero is doing a swell job.
Contrast this with the scant 8% of Dims who don’t think so and that’s probably because he’s insufficiently radical.
Yes, that is just for NJ. Last week this outfit(A left wing polling company)had Bozo at 50% nationwide.
“Independent suburban white women” are what has been causing NJ to vote Dem on the national level, while incompetence has caused the GOP to ineffective on a national level. With the economy looming as a larger issue than abortion now, many of those “ladies who lunch” are now turning on Obama (although many say they want Hillary rather than anyone the GOP produces).
Yep. You also forget to mention that a large share of the “middle class” is comprised of state and local government employees (NJ having the highest % of civil servants as share of population of any state in the union). What POs me is that the wives of the PRODUCTIVE residents of NJ (ie the guys who work their as-es off in finance and pharma) vote for the same socialists as the huge public sector “middle class.” The are also the biggest supporters of “local control” of public schools, which leads to higher property taxes and senior teachers making six figures.
Thanks.
I thought I had heard he was at or slightly below the 50/50 mark in national polls.
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