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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The shocker would be if these groups still supported Obama.
I really think that November is going to be Quake like. 2012 will be tougher due to the media informing the comatose American public, but we will win it fairly handily.
Ref. my Post #42: Hell yes I’m mad.
Understood.
“So if you lose your job, your health insurance, your retirement investments, or an American city to a terrorist attack . . . thank an independent!”
WRONG!!! You can thank the voters who kept holding their noses and voting for the lesser of two evils instead of voting on principle. We didn’t just wake up one day and Obama was President. This progression towards socialism has been coming at us for over 20 years starting with ‘one world Bush’.
I understand your point.
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