Posted on 09/11/2010 11:31:30 PM PDT by Zakeet
Nearly two years ago, the political world could only marvel at the breadth of voter support for Barack Obama.
The new president had won over voters once thought to have abandoned his party for good. He'd found new reservoirs of support among groups many thought were tapped out.
He energized a coalition — made up of blacks, women, Latinos, young voters and large numbers of suburbanites — that some believed would keep Democrats in power for years to come.
A scant 20 months later, the Obama coalition is frayed and frazzled.
A majority of those who voted for Obama still approve of the job he is doing. But that number is eroding.
Surprisingly, support for the president among Latinos, young people and women has dropped as much as it has among groups that were considered less likely to stick with the president, such as white males, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
Support among suburbanites has dropped dramatically too, surveys show, while African American voters remain Obama's most loyal constituency and his fiercest defenders.
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... dozens of interviews with Obama voters across five swing areas show that the warning signals are blinking for the president's party.
Obama voters evince little interest in the midterm election. When they express goodwill toward the president, it rarely extends to his allies in Congress. Many do not consider themselves Democrats.
Pew's survey experts routinely ask respondents to characterize the president in a single word. In their most recent poll, conducted this summer, more respondents than ever answered with the word "disappointing."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
“Pew’s survey experts routinely ask respondents to characterize the president in a single word...”
But if you really want to see the msm’s heads explode:
“Muslim”
“Decisions of great importance, those that can alter the course of a nation cannot be made based on emotion. The Founding Fathers in their infinite genius and wisdom saw this and denied women the vote.
They were correct and we should have the 19th Amendment repealed.”
In order for that to happen, men in this country in very large majorities would have to go almost super Taliban like to force the issue(not muslim but certainly almost ape like, mens’ faces “set like flint” when women try to cajole them). Conditions would have to become almost primitive and everyone on the verge of starvation to bring about the necessary change conditions!
It seems clear to me that the support from this group is based entirely on the 'color of his skin, not the content of his character'. This is hardly the basis of an effective ruling coalition.
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I didn't know that! Wow. Maybe America will luck out and Obama will really be the first major step in ending the Democratic party as we know it.
...”She’ll be 69 years old in 2016 and Bill will be 70”...
A significant point..The old mind and body just cannot take the stress after too many decades. It may be now or never for them.
Go read hp. They still love him.
That would depend on what "their jobs" actually "are" (since if you've seen one MSM outlet you've seen them all, the plural is not appropriate). You have been told that journalism has a code of ethics and is unbiased. But who told you that?Why, I believe it was journalists!
In reality, anyone who thinks they are objective manifests the defining characteristic of subjectivity.
It follows, then, that a claim to objectivity is self-negating.
Codes of "journalistic ethics" should be viewed with extreme skepticism - if not outright cynicism. They may actually fool themselves - but half the truth is often a great lie, and any formulaic approach to attaining objectivity without humility is futile.And journalism is far to busy hyping its own importance to ever be humble.
A whopping 95% of black voters cast their ballots for the president in 2008. Their support has held more strongly than any other demographic group.
I guess the concept of earning respect is foreign to some people.
Every action has a natural consequence. You can control your decisions but you have no control over the consequences. The Dems are reaping the consequences of their choices, IMO.
Supposedly he had a 70% approval shortly after his inauguration. I find that hard to believe but that is what the polls were saying. Its gone rapidly downhill since.
"If there’s one positive to come out of the Great Recession, it should be the end of Keynesian economics as a serious policy choice. ...Obama’s miserable failure may finally drive a stake through this productivity-sucking, economy-killing meme."
Personality of candidates is 20th century. All elections should now focus on a national rejection of Keynesian Economics. We need an up-or-down vote on Keynesian economics. We either keep Keynesian leadership and have a massive economic disaster, or we kill it forever and only have a very bad economic disaster.
http://deanesmay.com/2010/08/09/the-long-deserved-death-of-keynesian-economics/
Obama is a Harvard educated law professor with a first class temperament.
Laws are overturned all the time.
The money is gone and redistributed. The union leaders have received payoffs to take care of the next ten years. The health care industry has been wrecked. The teachers have been bribed and paid. The wreckage will keep lawyers fed high on the hog for a decade as it all gets sorted out.
I don't dismiss such dramatics lightly, but I definietly dismiss them. It won't be easy, but we've gotten over worse in our past, and the reaction of the public lately is encouraging. All that can stop us now are these depressed moans that nothing can change, it's useless to resist.
Fortunately, the American people don't see it that way. I have a lot more confidence in the country than some seem to, and I don't feel that lightly, either.
It's called white guilt but it's not true guilt. It's really black envy appeasement.
Perhaps, but the GOP is not exactly loved at this point and that could open the door to Hillary.
I predict that the next Congress will do NOTHING to reverse the course of events, other than to whine and hold hearings.
LBJ was the worst President, even more so than Jimmuh Carter. He was a multitask failure both on the domestic front and the military front. Yes, the Vietnam war was the immediate cause for his not running again.But we still live with the legacy of his failure for all the entitlment programs and social welfare programs he rammed thru Congress that were never paid for and have grown to massive proportions that we live with today and are no longer affordable. Medicare, Medicaid, War on Poverty programs most of which we still live with today are all his babies.
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