Posted on 09/06/2009 11:29:28 PM PDT by Steelfish
Obama Is Fast Losing White Voters' Support
His approval ratings with the crucial bloc have plunged since April. Strategists say the healthcare debate is largely to blame, but that's not the only reason.
The Obama family returns from Camp David. It's unclear whether President Obama's ratings slip is based on policy or personal issues. (Ron Sachs / Pool Photo / September 6)
Graphic: Poll results
By Peter Wallsten September 7, 2009
Reporting from Washington - After a summer of healthcare 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 and the Press.
It has dropped by 9 points among white independents and whites over 50, and by 12 points among white women -- all groups that will be targeted by both parties in next year's midterm 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.
Strategists in both parties blame Obama's decline on growing discontent with his policy agenda, particularly after a month of often-rowdy debate over his proposed healthcare overhaul, in which some conservatives accused him of socialism. Obama's ratings seem likely to rise again if he wins passage of healthcare legislation this fall.
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Well, now, that's only poised to get worse for him when the BC and other documents are revealed--a fact about which he's been aware for many years.
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This is the big disappointment of the biracial promise. Even I had a few hopes when we lost the election, that maybe blacks would take O's rise as something conciliatory that would help them move on and maybe learn to enjoy all that America has to offer and all that Africa does not.
But we're starting to realize that O's election is just to bring racial resentment to center stage, complete with styrofoam Greek columns. White liberal guilt is wearing thin. It's like a marriage when one party has tried to appease, and the other party has fallen in love with his own resentment. Further efforts appear futile.
The only thing this wispy man can produce is resentment. He can't lead after he won the election. He could have won a lot of regard and respect from me if he had just said, "Hey, he's my friend, I popped off and I wish I hadn't. I'm sorry. You should respect your local police officers."
I think, at that point, with all the cringe-inducing beer moments, that something jumped the shark for Obama and white people.
Americans wanted Left of Center Adminstration. Instead we got a Socialist one that’s bordering on Marxism.
From the article: “These controversies have followed conspiracy theories that the president was born overseas and is ineligible to hold office, and that his true religion is Islam — false rumors that some Democrats worry could be affecting the public’s view of the president and his party.”
Let me be clear, as I’ve said all along although the bulk of evidence points to a HI birth, it’s good to keep this story going as an urban legend for its corrosive effects.
the White Guilt is starting to fade when the smoke that surrounded Obama has cleared. He was never who people projected him to be. People still have to purchase gas, pay mortgages and work.
People projected their “hopes” on Obama and one was “maybe the race baiting will finally stop”.. Well, anyone that wasn’t drunk on Hopenchange knew that it was never end.
“I beg to differ. Cap N Tax is reversable with simple legislation. Giving free health insurance to people and socializing the medical system will be for all intents and purposes impossible.”
I’m not sure it’ll be that simple. You’re creating huge new bureaucracies in both cases with special interest groups who will be fighting any changes. And Cap and Tax is all about income redistribution so there will be a lot of groups receiving bennies that they will be loath to surrender.
The short form COLB says that it is prima facie evidence of the facts contained. That means that anyone opposing it has the burden of proof. Gov. Lingle and (I’m unsure of the exact title) Director of the HI dept. of Health have vouched for its authenticity. Of course they could be lying, but then the story relies upon multiple liars - which is normally where most conspiracy theories breakdown.
I’ve yet to see any documentary ev. that stanley ann was in Kenya at the time of his birth.
The crypto-muslim story on the other hand, could be true due to his childhood in Indonesia and his trip to Paki where he left as Barry Sotereo and came back Barack Hussein 0bama II.
Apparently, Obama has proven to be too radical for even some of his most ardent supporters.
I just saw some poll info which indicates that Obama's support among blacks has slipped from 95%, to around 75%. That is a complete surprise to me.
Somewhere around 8% of blacks (including yours truly) are strongly conservative. Very few of them voted for Obama, so if Obama's support is now only 75% among blacks, that clearly indicates that he's losing support among his committed base. By my calculation, a whopping 17% of black Democrats have left him since the election.
That's dramatic.
When his dad died in late 90's and he saw how much money the government took from the estate he switched parties and has been a pubbie ever since.
There's nothing like taking a major hit from Uncle Sugar to open one's eyes.
It happened to me after I married, bought a home, started a small business, and had four kids. After a couple of years, I got so disgusted with the government's intrusion into my affairs, and the heavy taxation (for the crime of creating economic activity and jobs), that I decided to finally check out what the "other side" had to offer.
Within a few months of reading and learning, I was irretrievably in the conservative Republican camp. Along the way, I've met a few black folks who've had the same epiphany. Some are quieter about their beliefs than I am, and I can understand that.
For myself, I just know too much now, and cannot compromise with my reality one iota. I don't care who it offends.
Oddly enough, it doesn't take that long to undo the leftist brainwashing, once a person starts getting better data to think with.
What takes the longest, is for a person to come to the realization that the Democrat party and the left have not been telling them the truth.
From there, it takes some degree of courage to work up the nerve to actually examine what the "other side" has to offer.
This is the painfully slow process that most of us escapees have gone through, but it can be done. A few more escape the liberal mind control plantation every day.
Colin Powell was long a favorite of the affirmative action wing on FR, along with Condi Rice and JC Watts.
No pun intended, but I've been the "black sheep" of the family for as long as I can remember. I've always been the rebel of the clan, and have always been the pioneer of the family.
It's just ironic to me that all of the true rebels in America are now on the right. The left has now become the establishment, and can no longer lay claim to the title, though they try.
Obama won blue collar white districts in the northeast largely due to very high support among females.
Thanks. I've found it to be axiomatic of the left and the right.
Would you look at that picture! This country voted him in! All I can say is if we wanted him after knowing all about the baggage that he had, then this country is going to pay the consequences for it’s terrible choice of a leader. What do you expect from a man who believes like oprah, that there are many ways to God. The truth is Yeshua is the only way.
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