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Obama's declining support among whites
chicago tribune ^ | 9/4/09 | Peter Wallsten

Posted on 09/05/2009 6:25:12 PM PDT by mathprof

After a summer of health care battles and sliding approval ratings for President Obama, the White House is facing a troubling new trend: The voters losing faith in the president are the ones he had worked hardest to attract.

New surveys show steep declines in Obama's approval ratings among whites--including Democrats and independents--who were crucial elements of the diverse coalition that helped elect the country's first black president.

Among white Democrats, Obama's job approval rating has dropped 11 points since his 100-days mark in April, according to surveys by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. It has dropped by nine points among white independents and whites over 50, and by 12 points among white women--all voter groups that will be targeted by both parties for support in next year's mid-term elections.

"While Obama has a lock on African-Americans, his support among white voters seems to be almost in a free-fall," said veteran Republican pollster Neil Newhouse.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; bhojobapproval; obama; socialism; third100days; whitevote
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Racists!
1 posted on 09/05/2009 6:25:13 PM PDT by mathprof
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Idiots. This SOB sat is Wright’s “church” for years. What did you suppose he really thought of you?

Such morons


2 posted on 09/05/2009 6:27:48 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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"Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is president of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, `How did this happen?' " Rangel said, according to the New York Post.

Guilty.

3 posted on 09/05/2009 6:28:52 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrat - The new Party of National Socialism. Pelosi and Kosmas - founding members.)
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Obama's declining support among whites

Barf alert.

More newsworthy is his plummetting support among African-Americans.

4 posted on 09/05/2009 6:29:01 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand ("it can never happen here.")
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5 posted on 09/05/2009 6:29:22 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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Its not my fault so many blacks are blind followers.

OJ didn’t do it

Michael Jackson didn’t do it

Da b**ch set marion Barry up

Kwamee didn’t do it

And on and on and on.


6 posted on 09/05/2009 6:29:41 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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Playing the race card again.


7 posted on 09/05/2009 6:30:22 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Liberal sacred cows make great hamburger)
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You mean to tell me that women- the fairer sex who traditionally votes with their heart instead of their heads- are starting to get a reality check?

There may be hope for them yet. I’m hoping they feel scorned and betrayed by the racist usurper- they won’t come back to him if that’s the case.


8 posted on 09/05/2009 6:30:55 PM PDT by Canedawg (FUBO)
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More newsworthy is his plummetting support among African-Americans.

Down to 99.7%? :)

9 posted on 09/05/2009 6:30:55 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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Everything is ‘race’ to these people. Maybe, just maybe, folks are opposing his POLICIES as they realize he’s an extreme Marxist.


10 posted on 09/05/2009 6:31:10 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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Funny how Barry’s becoming president was supposed herald a post-racial America and yet, the issue of color remains a prominent fixture.....at least among the liberal media.

David Horowitz was right when he spoke what he did to Glenn Beck Friday.


11 posted on 09/05/2009 6:31:12 PM PDT by cranked
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you’d think he’d want to keep old white grandmas alive, they’re his power base


12 posted on 09/05/2009 6:31:48 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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absolutely...
13 posted on 09/05/2009 6:32:10 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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Yeah, go ahead and add me to that list.


14 posted on 09/05/2009 6:32:54 PM PDT by La.daddyrabbit (Born and bred in the briar patch)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Also guilty. I go to sleep wondering it. I wake up wondering it. I go through every day wondering it.


15 posted on 09/05/2009 6:33:00 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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Obama’s declining support among people who think OJ is a murderer.

(There. Fixed it.)


16 posted on 09/05/2009 6:33:08 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Socialism: The sin of envy, masquerading as a political movement.)
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And the irony is: it was their racism that got them to vote for the guy in the first place! White guilt and racist Blacks gave us The Economic Idiot known as Obama. The scary thing is...he can do anything, destroy this country in any fashion he pleases and he will still retain support of the majority of the Black community solely b/c of the color of his skin (as if that really means anything). Who’s racist now?


17 posted on 09/05/2009 6:33:21 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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Is that Rangel, the tax cheat, etc?

Oh, does that make me racist?


18 posted on 09/05/2009 6:34:00 PM PDT by donna (No more twitterpated RINO talk!)
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Yes, I’d say that was right, but I’m not sure it’s because he is black.


19 posted on 09/05/2009 6:34:07 PM PDT by WHBates
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Did I see the words, "free fall"!

Oooooh. Make it so.

20 posted on 09/05/2009 6:34:34 PM PDT by GVnana (Sarah for America)
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