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 ...
Ronald Reagan was 69 when he took office, but I think she will go for it in 2012 because Obama will look worse than Carter by then and she can ride to the rescue.
Yeah? Well how come it's THEIR husband and everyone ELSE is getting fuc*ed? Why is that?
“They better be ready at the end of the Obama term. He is probably the most likely flight risk in human history.”
Indeed.
It’s going to be very interesting to see where Obama chooses to live _after_ he is out of the office.
(Aside: he was never really _in office_ in the first place....)
She is going to ignore minority issues. I think the consensus is blacks, gays, illegals, criminals are going to vote for the Democrat no matter what.
Hillary will target the soccer moms and independents who will hopefully vote Conservative this election cycle. Obama lost them, probably permanently.
Basically, she will tune her rhetoric enough to the right of Obama, and enough to the left of the GOP, to capture as much as she can.
All poll tested rhetoric of course.
Jews voted for him by 73%, not 80%. But, yeah, way too high to make any sense. I wonder how many of them still support him - probably only the ones who couldn’t care less about Israel.
It all depends on where we are directed to look.
A son back in the early 50’s had a risqué line but punctuation is everything.
She’s got freckles on her but, (extended pause here) she’s still pretty.
She’s got freckles on her, (extended pause here) but she’s still pretty. This is the way it is written.
There really was a leave it to Beaver era, but the real Cleavers were not nearly as well off as the TV version of the family.
If he can manage to get a bump up in employment numbers and
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All he need to do is lie about it, believe me most people still believe
What ever the news reports, and the MSM will gleefully report the lies as truth.
The Democrats may be trying to think of an "October surprise" strategy to fire up their base in November 2010, but Obama as President has more power to make things happen--he may prefer to do nothing this year and do something dramatic in 2012.
TV News Blackout: Los Angeles, 3rd night of violence and disturbances
Attack on Iran.
He energized a coalition -- made up of blacks, women, Latinos, young voters and large numbers of suburbanites... A majority of those who voted for Obama still approve of the job he is doing. But that number is eroding.
Bingo
If that turns out to be the case, what are the odds that Sarah Palin rides in to the fray as a GOP Mustang? If Hillary displaces too many liberals in seeking to force Obama to the curb might Palin's (seemingly )inherent polarization benefit? I guess what I'm trying to say, is if the white liberal establishment turns on Obama, might the fallout benefit Palin in a backlash? Does that make sense?
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