Obama Sinks to Historic Lows Among Blue-Collar Men

National Journal ^ | July 11,2012 | Ronald Brownstein

[Hojczyk]

The new Quinnipiac University and ABC/Washington Post national surveys out this week converge on one key conclusion: as the election nears, President Obama is sinking to historic lows among the group most consistently hostile to him.

Throughout his career on the national stage, Obama has struggled among white men without a college education. But in these latest surveys, he has fallen to a level of support among them lower than any Democratic nominee has attracted in any election since 1980, according to an upcoming National Journal analysis of exit polls from presidential elections.

No one expects Obama to win these blue-collar men, who are now among the most reliably Republican segments of the electorate. But even so, these numbers, if sustained through Election Day, would represent a modern nadir for Democrats. Since 1980, the worst performance for any Democratic nominee among these working-class white men was the 31 percent Walter Mondale managed against Ronald Reagan in 1984; the meager 39 percent Obama drew in 2008 was actually the party's best showing over that period. These new surveys show Obama that these non-college white men represent Obama's largest source of decline in the white electorate since 2008.

[Red_Devil 232]

He has been on the Down Low for years.

[VRW Conspirator]

Romney’s to lose?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Obama Sinks to Historic Lows Among Blue-Collar Men

His anti-gun initiatives won't help here. I hope they get well-publicized by the GOP as well as the NRA.

[Meet the New Boss]

He doesn’t need working class whites.

He has
(1) 95% of blacks,
(2) two-thirds of hispanics,
(3) single women with children,
(4) homosexuals,
(5) Marxists, and
(6) Hollywood, the mainstream media, the universities and public schoolteachers which in turn give him the majority share of the uninformed and easily misled.

[Iron Munro]

Obama Sinks to Historic Lows Among Blue-Collar Men

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[bray]

You mean the Hate Whitey campaign turns off Whitey?

Pray for America

[atc23]

Blue collar men are cynical, just cynical enough to know a lying sack of crap, closeted queer, special interest panderer, phony when they see one.

[madprof98]

It is entirely possible that these six groups constitute a majority of Americans today. I wish they would just ask for their own country—as much of this one as they want—so the rest of us could have whatever was left. (Of course, I do recall that the Indians didn’t do so well with a deal like that.)

[OrangeHoof]

And since Obama has put so many of them out of work, they’ll have all day to get to the polls to vote against him rather than standing in a long life after getting off work at 5 p.m. where they might be tempted just to go home and not vote. Oh, darn Obama’s luck!

[Steelfish]

No worry for Obama. Single white women who voted for him “overwhelmingly” according to Gallup in 2008 are now becoming a tsunami of support for him again in 2012. What’s wrong with “them” women?

[DGHoodini]

Mmmmmm, mmmmmmm, mmmmmmmm yeah, mmmmmmm, mmmmmmm, mmmmmmmm, yeah
It is you, oh yeah, oh yeah
It is you, oh oh, oh

I said pressure drop, whoah pressure
yeah, pressures gonna drop on you

I said pressure drop, whoah pressure
yeah, pressure’s gonna drop on you

I said when it drops, you;re gonna feel it,
how its been doin you wrong

I said when it drops, youre gonna feel it,
how its been doin you wrong

I said pressure drop, whoa pressure yeah pressures gonna drop on you

I said pressure drop, whoa pressure yeah pressures gonna drop on you

It is you, oh yeah,
It is you , oh yeah

Mmmmm, nmmmmmmm, mmmmmm, yeah
Mmmmm, mmmmmm, mmmmmm yeah
It is you, oh yeah....

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Pressure Drop ! Robert Palmer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjArEnHPyFU

[Steelfish]

Add:
(7) Union Members
(8) Illegal Voters

[MEG33]

I do NOT get it..All the women I know are ABO!

[the invisib1e hand]

Obama Sinks to Historic Lows Among Blue-Collar Men

he'd do anything for a vote, wouldn't he?

[the invisib1e hand]

RIP Robert Palmer.

[DGHoodini]

He was inspiring. It was a sad day for me when I heard he had died so young.

[jmaroneps37]

For several cycles union members have voted about 38 to 40% Republican. This is why when you fold them over the remained the union vote itself has not been worth much for a long time. The net 25% is nice but often spread out too far to make a big difference. It is of course the money the union bosses extort from their members and buy Democrats with that is the problem. At any rate this could lead to a 45% Republican vote from union members which effectively wipe them out. Since they are hurting for money and lost that big case last month this could be the cycle we look back at and recognize as the beginning of the end of the unions’ strangle hold on American politics.

[the invisib1e hand]

He was inspiring. It was a sad day for me when I heard he had died so young.

That's a long list. Still inspires me.

[the invisib1e hand]

Zero's gone Less than Zero.