Posted on 06/23/2009 1:50:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Independent voters are the canaries in the coal mine of American politics, telling a leader whether the air is safe or starting to fill up with some toxic gases.
Bearing that in mind, President Barack Obama and his team ought to start worrying about the health of those canaries.
While the president remains broadly popular, his standing has eroded noticeably among political independents in recent weeks. That slide, among a set of citizens central to Mr. Obama's sizable victory in last year's election, means he has reached a politically hazardous juncture at the midpoint of his first, exceptionally hectic year.
The shifting attitude among independent voters, in fact, is the most significant change to emerge from a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, completed just last week. In that survey, Mr. Obama's job-approval rating among Americans overall slipped a notch, to 56% from 61% in April. That's not much of a drop, and is in keeping with the pattern for a new president at this point in his term.
But the slide was much more pronounced among self-identified purely independent voters -- that is, Americans who express no loyalty to either party.
Among these people, who tend to reside in the middle of the ideological spectrum, the president's job-approval rating fell to 45% from 60% in April.
The drop is the result of a "much more critical evaluation by these voters of President Obama" than in the administration's earlier months, Democrat Peter Hart and Republican Bill McInturff, directors of the Journal/NBC News poll, write in their analysis of the findings.
In particular, the survey suggests, independents are developing gnawing fears about government spending.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
More and more people are having “gnawing fears about” their President. Especially those that voted for him. They are beginning to turn on him.
They are questioning his view of the world and and his view of America’s place in it.
Political ping
I think some people might be afraid to say they don't like Obama when they answer a pollster.
I question the sanity of the ones who voted for the Communist and destruction of our country!
I think so, too. Only 52% voted FOR him and I doubt that the other 48% have come to like him in the eight months since the election.
Unless they’re are saying that there are some conservatives, libertarians, moderates and liberals who like him - that would be “broadly” popular. What they want to imply here is that he is “immensely” popular.
Which he’s NOT.
Well, at least we know the beaver was born in North America.
His opponent will have to win by 8 points in the real vote in order to just win by 3. By the time ACORN and all of the fraud they are probably working on RIGHT NOW, we won't only have a margin of litigation to contend with(which used to be worth 1-3 points), we will now have a margin of fraud as well, which will probably be another 3-5 points. The margin of litigation AND fraud will be 4-8 points in many places. With the rigged Census next year, all of the pieces will be in place for 2012. We'll know for sure when we have a president with a 30-40% approval rating winning reelection with 52-57% of the vote....
a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, completed just last week. In that survey, Mr. Obama's job-approval rating among Americans overall slipped a notch, to 56% from 61% in April... among self-identified purely independent voters... the president's job-approval rating fell to 45% from 60% in April.
They haven't bought and paid for ACORN, union, illegals, government worker, and entitlement votes yet? Ha. Ha. Ha. They own those votes lock, stock and barrel with a nice big commie-red locked chain around them.
It's too bad the dumb asses didn't do their homework prior to pulling the lever for 0boooooooombashiite. I know, I have a brother & sister-in-law who voted for him, and got real angry when I grilled them on it PRIOR to the election, plus sent outstanding articles to them, warning them of what a 0booooooomba presidency would look like. I would like to say, serves them right, but unfortunately we all are suffering the consequences of this narcissistic totalitarian punk thug who isn't even a natural born citizen. What a lying POS he is!!! Socialist-fascist dictators never go away willingly and it will be a fight to the death to get this commie pig SOB out in 2012.
Its not the living independent votes that Obama will get. It will be the dead ones that vote three times that matter.
And the homeless ones, let’s not forget them. They also vote multiple times.
Between the Census, ACORN, new laws and executive orders, he’ll be “President-for-Life” by 2012.
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Only if people allow it and agree to live under a dictatorship. Will you?
Shows what can happen to even good economic plans.
Agreed! I’m noticing that too. They must be growing tired of listening to Obama read all interview questions and speeches off of his teleprompter.
BTW Barry, where’s the birth certificate?
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