Posted on 04/29/2010 5:06:32 AM PDT by reaganaut1
As the folks in the White House begin looking toward President Barack Obama’s presumed re-election campaign in 2012, there is one statistic that might worry them more than any other: Little more than a third of white voters currently think the president is doing a good job.
That data point is hidden in the crosstabs of the myriad polls that show a very polarized nation that gives the president a middling job approval rating overall.
Mr. Obama’s job approval rating remains in the mid-to-high-40s overall only because he gets a thumbs up from more than 90% of blacks and gets majority support from Hispanics.
A mid-40s job approval isn’t a terrible place for a politician to be. President George W. Bush won re-election in 2004 with those kinds of numbers.
And, of course, asking voters if they approve of Mr. Obama’s job performance is different than asking if they would vote for him. Any polls that test Mr. Obama against specific Republicans are too early to be meaningful.
However, a president’s job approval is a good reading on the public’s attitude.
A Potentially Big Problem
Mr. Obama’s weakness among whites, who comprise almost three quarters of the electorate even as the nation’s population becomes more racially diverse, is a potentially sizable political problem for the nation’s first African-American president.
The White House clearly recognizes that. Mr. Obama, trying to shore up support for Democratic candidates this year, is reaching out to both minorities and some selected groups of white voters, especially young people. In a video pitch released Monday, he called on Democratic activists to “reconnect” to “the young people, African-Americans, Latinos and women, who powered our victory in 2008, [to] stand together once again.” And on Tuesday, he began a two-day trip to rural communities in the nation’s heartland.
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5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . RACISM!!!!!!!!!
somebody KNOW sumpthin”....???
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/washington-post-mistakes-malcolm-x-for-obama/
I’m guessing a lot of those white Obama supporters felt obligated to vote for the more or less black guy.
Don’t worry...they have several million “Latinos” waiting in line to make up the difference.
You just can’t trust whitey!
There's racism alright, but the worst of it isn't among whites.
Didn’t these morons know this beforehand?
Voting for him in the first place was one of the dumbest things they have done in their life. If they think now that Hillary or McCain would have been better would only be to fool themselves. Both McCain and Hillary are Progressives also.
fine, I am a racist.
Not afraid of being called names.
I am afraid of govt becoming too big and getting in my business or wallet too much.
And I don’t care if this “magic negro” is purple, green or black. I hate marxists and he is an antiAmerican marxist p.o.s.
Hmmmm . . . might that have something to do with Obama’s blatant racism against european-americans? Where did he learn to be racis? His black father abandoned him, so it must have been his commie Mom or his commie grandparents - all white.
I agree with you. Obama has to be impeached and tried for treason. Eric Holder is next in line for sweeping the Black Panther case under the rug.
99% of blacks voting for another black buy is not racism/leftist think
This destroyer of Republics will be beaten in every major election between now and when he is escorted into retirement.
All he does is divide and its become blatantly obvious to any casual observer.
Yeah, that’s going to happen.
I’m serious. How can any adult seriously say they could not see this coming?
We're going to need every vote we can get in 2010 and 2012, because zer0's black and mexican hordes will be out at the polls in force.
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