Posted on 09/06/2009 11:29:28 PM PDT by Steelfish
Obama Is Fast Losing White Voters' Support
His approval ratings with the crucial bloc have plunged since April. Strategists say the healthcare debate is largely to blame, but that's not the only reason.
The Obama family returns from Camp David. It's unclear whether President Obama's ratings slip is based on policy or personal issues. (Ron Sachs / Pool Photo / September 6)
Graphic: Poll results
By Peter Wallsten September 7, 2009
Reporting from Washington - After a summer of healthcare battles and sliding approval ratings for President Obama, the White House is facing a troubling new trend: The voters losing faith in the president are the ones he had worked hardest to attract.
New surveys show steep declines in Obama's approval ratings among whites -- including Democrats and independents -- who were crucial elements of the diverse coalition that helped elect the country's first black president.
Among white Democrats, Obama’s job approval rating has dropped 11 points since his 100-days mark in April, according to surveys by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
It has dropped by 9 points among white independents and whites over 50, and by 12 points among white women -- all groups that will be targeted by both parties in next year's midterm elections.
"While Obama has a lock on African Americans, his support among white voters seems to be almost in a free fall," said veteran Republican pollster Neil Newhouse.
Strategists in both parties blame Obama's decline on growing discontent with his policy agenda, particularly after a month of often-rowdy debate over his proposed healthcare overhaul, in which some conservatives accused him of socialism. Obama's ratings seem likely to rise again if he wins passage of healthcare legislation this fall.
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Yes, after the canonization of Martin Luther King, and the high degree of reverence his work and writings are held by the black community, it is highly disturbing and disappointing to see that they are perhaps the most race conscious and discriminatory of all people in the US.
And you're right about conservatives. In this upside-down world, it's actually we who have taken MLK's words to heart, and actually live by them.
I've attempted to get people in my family to see the depth of this hypocrisy, to no avail. They're so poisoned by class hatred indoctrination from the left that they're blinded to what's right in front of them.
Gotcha.
“Obama’s ratings seem likely to rise again if he wins passage of healthcare legislation this fall.”
I’m glad you picked up on this. I saw Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday with Newt and Howard Dean. Dean said that his party lost in 1994 because they DIDN’T pass health care and the only way from them to win 2010 is to go ahead and do it now.
He used the Bush tax cuts as an example of Republicans using their majority to pass controversial legislation and still came out on top.
I was thinking to myself when I saw that, You lost in 1994 because you TRIED to take over health care and handed us what was then the largest tax increase in history. When people come out protesting in droves against a piece of crap like socialzed medicine, and have to show them who is boss they get rather perterbed.
We like benign government. We don’t want to have to worry about what the heck it is doing while we carry on with our busy lives. When it threatens to turn things upside down by taking such personal choices out of our hands for some ideological self-gratification, it is just too much.
It just goes to show how out of touch with mainstream America these people really are.
I agree with you... people hate the health care legislation. They want to see the economy improve and they truly want to see the Congress quit spending money we don’t have!
LOL, yeah, of course... the "journalists".
In my neighborhood, not far away, there is a house with a BO lawn sign in the front yard, as if it were October 2008 still.
There are still a number of BO bumper stickers (though they tend to be scarce on the cars in the mass transit parking lot on weekdays, heh heh) and BO signs in windows (college students?) near the campus.
Just enough batter to hold the fruitcake together. :)
A lot of it has to due with his secrecy and failing to give out his birth certificate... imo
“We like benign government. We don’t want to have to worry about what the heck it is doing while we carry on with our busy lives. When it threatens to turn things upside down by taking such personal choices out of our hands for some ideological self-gratification, it is just too much.”
Your tone in describing the discomfort caused by commie bruts is the very form and function of benignity, I must say.
Touch my doctor and I’ll carve out your liver with my thumb and index finger, you Bolshevik a-holes!
That’s more my style, actually.
But, yes, I too prefer a benign government.
That’s pretty good. Here’s another one by an attractive girl who seems pretty good at guitar.
The people who are leaving him can’t be said to be racially motivated, since they voted for him in the first place.
The headline says it. LA Times is injecting the racial divide.
The parent company Chicago Tribue put out the most ridiculous poll stating that the nation is evenly split on Zer0’s economic performance.
Is that not racist?
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I love your tagline!
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And the celebration will be largely consequence-free for up to two years, since most of the provisions don't go into effect until 2013.
Or Walter Williams!
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You know the saying, you can't pick your relatives. Hopefully the gene pool from that part of the family missed you.
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