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A Year After Honeymoon Ends, Whites, Men and Independents Desert Obama (Quinnipiac Poll bad news)
Wall Street Journal ^ | July 21, 2010 | Peter A. Brown

Posted on 07/21/2010 5:33:06 AM PDT by Zakeet

It was a year ago this month that President Barack Obama began losing voters. In the 12 months since, he has had legislative victories that appear – especially in the case of health care – to have cost him large amounts of both political capital and political support.

A comparison of the public’s views of him then and now tells us a great deal about the shape of American politics and how difficult it is for any president, even one as politically gifted as Barack Obama, to surmount the nation’s deep political and ideological divisions.

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On Election Day 2008, much was made of the increased turnout that Mr. Obama inspired among young voters and African-Americans, and to be sure that fattened his margin. But he won the White House because, the exit polling showed, he got 49% of men, 43% of whites and 52% of independents. Each of these three groups individually makes up a larger share of the electorate than blacks and young people combined.

In July 2009, President Obama had actually grown that support so that he was getting a thumbs-up job approval from 54% of men, 51% of whites and 52% of independents.

But today, the numbers for those three groups show just how far he has fallen. He gets a positive job approval from just 37% of whites, 38% of independents and 39% of men – a roughly 30% drop in all three groups in his support.

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All of which suggests the last year has convinced an awful lot of the folks who hadn’t voted Democratic for president in some time before supporting President Obama to rethink their politics with an eye toward returning to their political roots.

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It's really bad for the Wee Wee when the libtards at Quinnipiac University say he is toast.

1 posted on 07/21/2010 5:33:11 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet
even one as politically gifted as Barack Obama

I stopped reading there.

2 posted on 07/21/2010 5:34:28 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: Zakeet

It must have been a honeymoon,because we all got sc—w-d.


3 posted on 07/21/2010 5:35:20 AM PDT by whence911 (Here illegally? Go home. Get in line!)
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To: whence911

LOL


4 posted on 07/21/2010 5:36:29 AM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Sharon Angle has the Right Angle-We are Angling for Victory against Reid. www.sharronangle.com)
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To: Zakeet

Dictators don’t care about approval ratings.


5 posted on 07/21/2010 5:37:33 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: Zakeet
We expect a leader to be effective in his job, not just a public relations artist who is "all hat and no cattle."

WAKE UP AMERICA!


OBAMA-ALL HAT...
Obama, all hat and no...

6 posted on 07/21/2010 5:38:12 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: Zakeet

Honeymoon is over because he was cheating on them before it started. Cheating with communism while promising hope and change.

They got the change without hope.


7 posted on 07/21/2010 5:39:18 AM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (FDR had the New Deal. President 0bama has the Raw Deal.)
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To: Zakeet

"wat?"

8 posted on 07/21/2010 5:40:23 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Zakeet

Better late than never, I suppose. But a lot of damage has already been done.

This has been, and will continue to be, a VERY expensive lesson for the American people.

So if you lose your job, your health insurance, your retirement investments, or an American city to a terrorist attack . . . thank an independent!


9 posted on 07/21/2010 5:42:46 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: Zakeet

and 52% of independents.......................... I really don’t buy into that. He may have gotten 52% of the ones that voted, but I believe a large percentage of Independents never left their homes to vote.


10 posted on 07/21/2010 5:43:30 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (As Americans we must think We the People, not we the Party.)
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To: Zakeet

He’s all WU-WEIED up..............

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei


11 posted on 07/21/2010 5:46:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him on speed dial...............)
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To: Zakeet

Its over two years until the Presidential Election. Why the heck should he care.
Heck, if he’s the kamikaze I think he is, this is meaningless.


12 posted on 07/21/2010 5:51:25 AM PDT by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: Red Badger

The Big Wu-Weied

13 posted on 07/21/2010 5:53:15 AM PDT by Zakeet (The Big Wee Wee -- rapidly moving America from WTF to SNAFU to FUBAR)
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To: Little Ray
if he’s the kamikaze I think he is, this is meaningless.

Agreed, he'll just hammer the stake into the heart of America even faster. Executive orders, whatever it takes to complete the "fundamental transformation of America."
14 posted on 07/21/2010 5:54:14 AM PDT by TSgt (We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Zakeet

is it too soon to start calling this the FUBU Presidency?


15 posted on 07/21/2010 5:55:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Zakeet

Obama is not toast.

Blacks will never, ever turn their backs on him.
All those squishy, self-loathing white liberals who are wavering will come back in droves when given a chance.

In November, Republicans will gain control of at least 1 chamber of Congress. With that shift in power will come more reasonable legislation, and less instability. That will equal modest gains in the economy.

The Republicans in control will also allow BHO and the State Controlled Media to attribute ALL problems to the Republicans.

Get ready for BHO part II.


16 posted on 07/21/2010 5:55:19 AM PDT by brownsfan (The average American: Uninformed, and unconcerned.)
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To: Zakeet
...with an eye toward returning to their political roots...

The destruction of American exceptionalism by this regime is beyond mere 'politics'.

17 posted on 07/21/2010 5:55:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I question any heterosexual white male who voted for him.


18 posted on 07/21/2010 6:00:34 AM PDT by gthog61
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To: Bringbackthedraft

A large percentage of Americans f any persuasion don’t vote in a specific election, period.


19 posted on 07/21/2010 6:01:36 AM PDT by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

“even one as politically gifted as Barack Obama
I stopped reading there.”

The only political gift Mr. Skittles possesses is a knee pad suck up press. I would say he possesses little no political skills at all. Preaching to the choir is easy, but its not considered political art.


20 posted on 07/21/2010 6:02:24 AM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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