AP-GfK Poll: More Than Half Say Obama Should Lose (He's not doing well among adult independents)

AP-GfK Poll ^ | December 16, 2011 | Jennifer Agiesta & Ken Thomas

[neverdem]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Entering 2012, President Barack Obama's re-election prospects are essentially a 50-50 proposition, with a majority saying the president deserves to be voted out of office despite concerns about the Republican alternatives, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.

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But Obama's approval rating on his handling of the economy overall remains stagnant: 39 percent approve and 60 percent disapprove.

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For the first time, the poll found that a majority of adults, 52 percent, said Obama should be voted out of office while 43 percent said he deserves another term. The numbers mark a reversal since last May, when 53 percent said Obama should be re-elected while 43 percent said he didn't deserve four more years.

Obama's overall job approval stands at a new low: 44 percent approve while 54 percent disapprove. The president's standing among independents is worse: 38 percent approve while 59 percent disapprove...

[neverdem]

Where's the results with registered, or better yet, likely voters? How about another year of Obamanomics? It will be anybody but Obama. Daffy Duck could beat him, IMHO, so lets go with a conservative, not Romney, Obama's preferred opponent. Romney will be demonized by the Occupy Wall Street crowds. Obama isn't pushing class warfare for nothing. He has nothing to run on.

[floridavoter2]

Between a billion dollar warchest, the media on his side, voters who don’t pay that much attention and voter fraud I think Obama could win, unfortunately.

[SunkenCiv]

Of course, his partisan media shills have not yet begun to fight.

Neither have we.

Thanks neverdem.

[Sooth2222]

How is “a majority of adults, 52 percent, said Obama should be voted out of office while 43 percent said he deserves another term”, numbers more decisive than those that ushered him into office “essentially a 50-50 proposition”?

[PaleoBob]

Just about every poll out there that pits Obama against a specific Republican shows Obama winning easily. He’d lose an election for sure, just not to a Republican.

[neverdem]

Between a billion dollar warchest, the media on his side, voters who don’t pay that much attention and voter fraud I think Obama could win, unfortunately.

Pessimistic drivel, so what explains November 2010? A billion dollars of negative ads will go over real well with independents. The media on his side did nothing to prevent knowledge about Murdergate. While it hasn't been on TV that much, it's getting plenty of coverage.

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2010 Exit Poll for House Race Sample Size: 17504 (average)

Vote GOP - White Men 62 %, White Women 58 %
Vote GOP - White college graduates 58%
Vote GOP - White non-college graduates 63 %

From this latest poll of adults:

About two-thirds of white voters without college degrees say Obama should be a one-term president, while 33 percent of those voters say he should get another four years. Among white voters with a college degree, 57 percent said Obama should be voted out of office.

It should be no mystery. The GOP never got 60 % of the white vote before last November. Obama has tossed the Jacksonian Democrats and everybody else who's been affected from his energy and environmental policies, not to mention everyone appalled at murdergate and green job wasted subsidies to cronies.

All this pessimism is unwarranted. They don't plan to campaign for the non-college white vote because the best they can hope for is to eke out a squeaker with economic and foreign policy miracles. They most likely won't because whites will be more disappointed in him next year, and so will be the demographics that he's counting on!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem, great reply.

[floridavoter2]

“Pessimistic drivel, so what explains November 2010?”

The same thing that explains November 2008. 2 years is a lifetime in politics...

I’m not saying Obama will win, but he could. The media hasn’t even begun their coverup yet. Be optimistic, but cautious.

[DB]

In addition many of the young and gullible won’t make the same mistake twice. They’ll return to their normal pattern of not voting. Voting for the cool black dude is over. Now that they can’t get a job and told they have to buy health insurance to pay for other peoples healthcare that are far wealthier than they are isn’t going to go unnoticed.

Republicans are going to have to work pretty hard to screw up so badly that Obama gets reelected.

[DB]

This isn’t 2008.

[Right Wing Assault]

These polls drive me crazy. People are so contradictory, I wonder how they can get through the day in one piece.

Economy:
39 percent approve and 60 percent disapprove

Country headed in right direction:
26 percent agree, 70 percent disagree

Re-election:
43 percent for, 52 percent against

Job approval:
44 percent approve, 54 percent disapprove

Personal favorability:
53 percent favorable, 46 unfavorable

How can any sane person be one of the 70% who say we are headed in the wrong direction and one of the 60% who say he is doing badly on the economy but not be willing to vote him out by similar percentages? And how can they like someone who is screwing them and the country by his poor leadership?

[RegulatorCountry]

It’s saying that a fairly large number recognize the sorry state we’re in but are wary of admitting placing blame with Obama. The personal favorability numbers especially tell the tale. The affirmative action mentality is deeply rooted in a large segment of the populace, a majority outside political conservatism and amazingly enough, not exactly a minor percentage within it.

For all the rhetoric regarding racism, it’s “positive discrimination” to use the more descriptive and accurate British term, that is preventing Obama from pariah status worse than Carter, or Nixon leading up to his resignation.

[Grampa Dave]

For about two years, I have posted about what we have seen in California re Obozo losing the young independent voters, who voted for him 2008. These are the people who had jobs, homes and a sense of stability before Obozo became president.

The instability of our economy since Obozo rammed through his social agenda in his first year of destroying America is a big negative issue with the young independents.