Posted on 10/19/2014 6:56:44 PM PDT by knak
Obama voters are having a case of buyer’s remorse, according to a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll in six states with key Senate races this November.
The number of likely voters “who can remember voting” for President Obama has turned out to be lower than the actual number that did, USA Today reports. And of those who confessed to helping reelect the president in 2012, one in seven said they now regret their decision.
Of the six states in the polling, only Kansas featured as many likely voters who remembered voting Obama as those who actually did (at 38 percent apiece.)
In the other states, it broke down in the following manner.
Arkansas had 37 percent Obama voters during the 2012 election, but now only 35 percent actually admit to it. Colorado’s percentage point drop was even steeper, from 51 percent in 2012 to 46 percent today. Iowa matched this with a drop of 52 percent to 47 percent.
Michigan fell the most, going from 54 percent to 48 percent, and North Carolina dropped from 48 percent to 43 percent.
USA Today didn’t stop there. Of the individuals who admitted to voting for Obama but now regret it, they shared the following responses.
Lois Rice, 61, Colorado: “I voted for Obama, but quite frankly I’ve been disappointed with his handling of the ISIS (Islamic State) issue and just some general economic issues.”
Kristopher Lane, 21, Iowa: “I’m kind of upset that I did vote for him… I was kind of pushed towards voting for him by someone I know.” Lane also expressed concern that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement, has turned out worse than promised.
Charles Franklin of Marquette University Law School attempted to explain the results.
“Voters who defect from their party to vote for the winner are more likely to ‘forget’ this over time and to report a vote more consistent with their current party identification. Reports of past vote also correlate with current preferences.”
Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune added that Obama voters may just be tired of seeing the President after six years.
“After six years in office, any president has been seen and heard too many times to satisfy the public’s relentless appetite for something fresh and new,” Page wrote.
What do you think, readers? First of all, if you were one of the Obama voters who ushered him into a second term, have you/do you regret your decision? And are these poll numbers a bad sign for Democrats in the battleground states next month?
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1548696/obama-voters-express-regret-in-new-usa-today-poll/#vt1eeOiW3QWJSsIk.99
But are the abstainers in 2012 remorseful?
The dumbasses who voted for Obama can make amends by sitting out the next couple of elections.
True, and they are disappointed because communism has not been completely implemented yet, but he has two more years to do that.
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Exactly. The poll doesn’t mean what they are saying it means. They didn’t “forget” voting for O, they really DIDN’T vote for him! More votes were counted than actually cast a ballot for him.
The saddest part of this entire discussion is that even before Hussein burst onto the scene, those voters were just as stupid, ignorant, unengaged and toxic to the (theoretical) "body politik."
The only real hope for any recovery from the downward slide into oblivion as a meaningful credible exceptional nation, is to establish some minimum qualification for participation in self governance.
A pipedream perhaps, but inevitable.
We have tried the debatable experiment of unrestrained egalitarianism, and the results have been an unqualified fail, by any measure.
Unqualified voters are tolerable until their number reaches a tipping point.
Unqualified elected legislators are a different and unfixable historical anomaly and we have had all of it a crippled country can support. What has happened for the last six years will forever be an inescapable historic embarrassment in the history of the United States, should it survive as we once knew it.
Allowing ignorant unqualified clowns to be accepted as qualified for legislative office and to continue pretending that the constant embarrassment is "normal," and that all is well, has got to stop.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/19/u-s-humanitarian-aid-going-to-isis.html
While U.S. warplanes strike at the militants of the so-called Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq, truckloads of U.S. and Western aid has been flowing into territory controlled by the jihadists, assisting them to build their terror-inspiring “Caliphate.”
The aid—mainly food and medical equipment—is meant for Syrians displaced from their hometowns, and for hungry civilians. It is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, European donors, and the United Nations.
A lot of the recent Obama-loving college grads working two part-time jobs, but with no real benefits at either, are wondering what the h*** happened:
Where are the skittles-excreting Unicorns? Why are oldsters still working? Why do things suck?
Ohhhhh, now that they are looking at meeting their maker from his plague they feel regret?!!
But are the abstainers in 2012 remorseful?
Very good question. Most are probably not.
Is it time to bring this up again?
I predict that Obama’s poll numbers will get so low that black voters will be reminding us that he is half-white.
I predict that Obama’s poll numbers will get so low that black voters will be reminding us that he is half-white.
That’s funny.....and true.
I see a reference to that lying article by Clarence Page. People are not tired of seeing him, they are tired of a lies, abject failure, incompetence, and poor performance on almost everything.
I feel the same way. And furthermore, if you are experiencing hardship because of the guy you voted for, then you deserve it.
Yep, that’s funny...
Folks in 2008 and 2012 bought a lemon car
based on a good sound system and because they liked the color.
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