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Can President Obama win re-election if almost two-thirds of whites are opposed to him?
CNN's Cafferty File ^ | November 16, 2011 | Jack Cafferty

Posted on 11/17/2011 12:17:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

With just about a year to ago until Election Day, the U.S. is a racially divided nation when it comes to President Barack Obama.

Consider this: A new CNN/Opinion Research Poll shows 61% of whites disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job vs. 36% who don’t – that’s almost two-to-one. For non-whites, it's almost the mirror image. Only 32% disapprove while 67% approve.

For a president who was supposed to symbolize a post-racial America, this is not good news. When Obama defeated John McCain in 2008, he did it with significant support from white Americans.

Exit polls showed Obama won 43% of white voters. That was the largest share of white support in a two-man race since 1976. Among young white voters, Obama did even better, getting 54% of their support. If Obama wants a second term, he needs to win back support from more white Americans in the coming months.

Meanwhile our new poll shows other results that could spell trouble for Obama. Overall, he gets a 46% approval rating, with 52% saying they disapprove.

When you compare that rating with recent incumbents running for re-election, the president ranks only above Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. They both lost their re-election bids. Most incumbents who win re-election had an approval rating above 50% a year before the election.

Finally, the poll shows 54% of the crucial independent voters disapprove of the job Obama is doing...

(Excerpt) Read more at caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; bho2012; democratplantation; elections; obama; polls; racebaiting; racepimping; whitevote
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If 93% of dead people in Philadelphia vote for him, YES HE CAN!


21 posted on 11/17/2011 12:26:46 PM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Depends. If he gets less than 33% of the total White vote, I think he still wins if he gets more than 90% of the dead White vote.


22 posted on 11/17/2011 12:26:56 PM PST by C210N (zer0 - a Marxonist spreading the flames of obamunism wherever he goes.)
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To: Sea Parrot

blacks make up 14% of all America...remove about half of that because of age and felons...

ain’t much of a voting block


23 posted on 11/17/2011 12:27:08 PM PST by antivenom (visit SBPDL.com and at least read what you and the liberal media are too afraid to say)
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To: OrioleFan
Whites have had it with affirmative action.

That's one part of the problem; another is stuffing the ballot box by importing illegals and pressing for amnesty while stifling any attempt at Voter ID.

24 posted on 11/17/2011 12:27:50 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can we stop with the race BS.


25 posted on 11/17/2011 12:28:15 PM PST by Fred (no job no house no gas no food no problem Obama 2012)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It depends. How many graveyards are there.

Actually, I don’t think any of the numbers matter much, Obama is going to be near impossible to beat.


26 posted on 11/17/2011 12:28:23 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/West 2012.“I’ve got a lot swirling around in my head.”)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Many whites want to be PC.


27 posted on 11/17/2011 12:29:17 PM PST by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can a conservative win, if ALL minorities vote for LIBERALS?


28 posted on 11/17/2011 12:34:47 PM PST by 2harddrive
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jack Acidly will assume this is all racism.


29 posted on 11/17/2011 12:36:10 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

yes. Fraud goes a long, long way.


30 posted on 11/17/2011 12:36:59 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity
"As a white person....."

I found the Crayola crayon labeled "flesh" (Name changed to “peach” in 1962) to approximate my skin tone much better than "white" when I wuz a kid.

Seems like things were more nuanced back then. Don't let the leftist LSM define the terms (like red/blue states).

31 posted on 11/17/2011 12:38:19 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Gator113

“Actually, I don’t think any of the numbers matter much, Obama is going to be near impossible to beat.”

I’m beginning to believe that.

Big Media is focused and has enough collective hatred for anyone who isn’t a Democrat to be formidable.

Hussein has gotten away with dozens of crimes and absurdities a Republican president would have had to resign for by now, and the unemployed freaks are getting their incentives to vote Democrat.

4.5% unemployment is unacceptable for a Republican president, but 9% for a Democrat president just means he hasn’t had a chance to do enough YET.

We MUST take back the Senate from the traitors.


32 posted on 11/17/2011 12:38:30 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: albie

You were right, Albie. Most whites DID vote against Hussein.


33 posted on 11/17/2011 12:38:35 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The last President to win re-election with an approval rating in the mid 40s or below less than a year before an election was Harry Truman in 1948.


34 posted on 11/17/2011 12:38:55 PM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative
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To: Paladin2

What happened to us being post racial and all of that?

We have elected a black president. The history has been made. So can’t we evaulate his performance as president without regard to race?


35 posted on 11/17/2011 12:43:03 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: treetopsandroofs

Good post, ttsr.

We MUST take the Senate back is right...


36 posted on 11/17/2011 12:44:26 PM PST by Mountain Mary (Awaken Oh America.)
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To: antivenom
ain’t much of a voting block

Blacks make up about ten percent of actual voters. And nine of the last thirteen elections have been decided by margins of less than nine percent.

37 posted on 11/17/2011 12:45:01 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Gator113

He absolutely has to win two of these three states to win

my home state of Ohio

Pennsylvania

Florida

UNLESS he flips a McCain state like Arizona or Missouri


38 posted on 11/17/2011 12:45:04 PM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Obama is not black — he is half white. He had a white mother and a black father. Because his father was black DOES NOT make him black. This falsehood is constantly being perpetrated on the white American public. At a minimum, he is mulatto - - nothing more, nothing less. HE IS NOT A BLACK PRESIDENT. As I tell Democrats, I am not a racist, I do not like the while half either!!!


39 posted on 11/17/2011 12:45:58 PM PST by Mr. Wright (N\)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People had better get these criminals out of office and prosecute them.

I can’t believe that the masses are allowing them to rip us all off.

Unbelievable crimes.

Watergate was childsplay.


40 posted on 11/17/2011 12:46:17 PM PST by dforest
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