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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Do they really believe this?
In another episode, some conservatives have criticized a White House dinner invitation issued to the lead lawyer in the American Civil Liberties Union lawsuits that have forced the government to disclose Bush-era interrogation techniques. The lawyer was invited to an event for the Muslim holiday of Ramadan.How fitting that 0bama would celebrate the terrorists winning with his co-conspirators on Ramadan.
0 won 66% of the 18-29 years old vote.
How can someone commit suicide twice over? Well C&T looks like the way to it.
What? This can't be true. All those white TV news anchors, commentators, and Hollywood movie stars worship the ground he hovers over.
At this point any healthcare bill, even one that affirms the status quo will be spinned into “Change We Can Believe In” and give his ratings a boost.
He’s hurting among his bro’s. That has to leave a mark.
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Oh...it must be because the whites are all racits.
Let me say, I am a dark looking Indian (from India) and I always hated this Obama guy and he never had my support to even lose it.
I bet Latino support went up because of that lame Latina who was appointed to the SCOTUS. Oh, no! That is not racism.
Was going to say I’ve heard grumbling across the board, with blacks being some of the bitterest critics. Reality is setting in everywhere.
I haven't seen him lose one iota of support among blacks. The libs in my family still support him 100%. Haven't heard a single one of them express any doubt about Obama yet.
Pretty sad, eh?
They wouldn't have had the media not dropped the story so quickly.
As soon as Ozero said he was leaving the church the MSM said, "OK...let's move on" and it didn't have time to register on most people's radar screens.
That story would have been the end of his campaign IMO had it been properly aired.
Or they could have said - Only black voters continue to cling to Obama.
The Democrat “base”: Atheists, abortion enthusiasts, condom-throwers, Hollywood drunks, gold-chained union thugs, welfare grandmothers, Boy Scout-hating lesbians, hand-wringing college professors, parasites, losers, and goofballs.
It’s extremely disheartening to think that there were enough of the above voters to elect an empty suit who has never accomplished anything of note in his entire life aside from advancing his own political ambitions.
My dad was flipping channels during a commercial and stopped on BET (by accident I think). Anyway... he told me that there was a black comedian on, shouting to the black audience how they ‘should all stand and applaud the whiteys because they were the ones who gave us Obama’.
He quickly switched back, preferring the commercials.
I simply cannot understand the mind of someone like that.
Ya think? How can any American vote for anyone who has zero respect for the American Flag? I guess you missed this one.
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