Posted on 07/14/2010 1:41:01 PM PDT by jessduntno
The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll shows President Obama's standing among white voters continuing to slip, a potentially ominous sign for his party with the midterm elections fast approaching.
Just 40 percent of whites in the Post/ABC survey approve of the job Obama is doing, his lowest rating among this key demographic since the start of his presidency and well below the 50 percent approval number that he carries nationwide. Forty-three percent of white voters strongly disapprove of the job Obama is doing, while just 19 percent strongly approve.
Among the other lowlights with whites in this poll for Obama: 54 percent of college-educated whites now disapprove of the job he is doing, and, among white college-educated women, Obama's approval numbers has dipped below 50 percent for the first time in his presidency in Post/ABC polling.
Much of Obama's struggles with white voters seems directly attributable to the public's deep pessimism about the economy. (Ninety-four percent of whites polled rated the economy either not so good or poor.) Just over one in three whites (37 percent) approve of Obama's handling of the economy -- his worst rating among that demographic group ever. Forty-eight percent of white voters strongly disapprove of Obama's stewardship of the economy, while 13 percent strongly approve.
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An abc poll....how can they be trusted...
Affirmative Action can take you only so far.
Blacks, alone, could not have elected this man. In fact, no combination of minoritites could have elected him. One would have to question the intellect of ANYONE, who approved of him in the FIRST place! The, momentary, diminution of approval is of little succor to the rest of us. And, I’d be willing to bet that there are far more people, who supported him than are willing to admit to it!
The idiotPOTUS has no frakin clue as to how deeply he is destroying this country along racial lines......
Well, having an overtly racist Attorney General does not help. People are tired of being termed racists because they oppose illegal immigration. And the decision not to prosecute the Panthers for voter intimidation was huge. The anti-white discrimination measures in the new Finance Bill will cause more angst as they become better known.
Very soon his only constituency will be the 60’s radicals and the welfare class. He must be defeated.
The radicals are dying off and the welfare class at this point is his only solid base. A base that will be threatened with the new cuts.
Jump back Jack, Forshizel
“I can’t image 95% of all blacks are Democrats.”
They used to be nearly all Pubs. Solid middle class, growing wealth, improving civil rights (with the help of the Pubbies). Then the Great (Giveaway) Society started and BAM...they went for the free lunch. How’s that working for them? Did they get the good housing, nice neighborhoods, solid, married middle class...I wonder just how stupid one group of people can be? And no, I am not anti-black. I’m anti-STUPID.
You are giving them too much credit. I would use stronger terms myself.
Wow even after the kill whitey and all the crackerbabies comment made by one of his peeps?
Proof positive that you should pass an IQ test and racial profiling to be allowed to vote! Votes need to be cast by people who choose to educate themselves!
“I have a complete moonbat Cindy Sheehan style sister inlaw who saw the light over his oil spill incompetence and is disgusted by the cry of racism every chance his hacks get.”
I’ve got one of those...we don’t speak, fortunately...but if we did, she would be defending the bstrd...
They'll need to make their decision before 2012.
“I think this is why the birth certificate has not been fully released.
I think it says his father is Arab. Which would diminish his base.”
Have you ever seen a picture of his Father? He’s pure Black African. No visible trace of Arab Blood. I don’t know why people keep bringing this Arab crap up. Does it make him worse if he did have some “Arab Blood”/
It makes him less appealing to his base. Which votes for him at around ~90%.
I believe, his dad identified himself as an Arab.
The birth certificate, what we have seen says “Black”.
That was not a term used for Blacks for another eight years. That term wasn’t common for another decade. Also, in Africa the term Black is used as a put down. Negro is preferred in Africa.
He has treated his Muslim heritage as a dark secret. His grandfather was named ‘Hussein.’ That is an Arabic-Muslim, not African, name.
http://www.usvetdsp.com/dec06/obama_muslim.htm
Also:
“[Note: Journalist Kenneth Lamb, upon digging deeper into an article by Richard Cohen published in The Washington Post, claims that BHO is descended from Arab slave traders who settled in Kenya. His research shows that Obama, Sr., had one black African maternal grandfather and the rest of his genealogy is Arabic. So, Lamb reasons, Obama is 50 percent white on his mother’s side and 43.75 percent Arabic on his father’s side. That means Obama’s genetic makeup is only 6.25 percent black African. In order to legally qualify as a “minority,” the government requires that one’s genealogy contain one-eighth, (or 12.5 percent) of that specific minority. According to Lamb, Obama’s claim that he would be the first “black” president is not legally defensible].”
http://proliberty.com/observer/20081016.htm
Nobody said it makes him worse or better.
Let me ask again. Have you ever seen a picture of his Father? If he is not pure Black African, I’m the Emperor of China.
I sometimes can’t tell what race someone was by a picture. If they were 100% or 50%. I guess you can.
His father could identify himself as an Afro-Arab. Do a search on this term and Obama. You will see that Obama has strong Arab ancestry. Thus the name.
“Afro-Arab (sometimes referred to as African Arab) can refer to people of mixed Black African and genealogical Arab ancestral heritage and/or linguistically and culturally Arabized Black Africans.[1] There are communities of Afro-Arabs in East Africa, West Africa, North Africa and the Near East as well as, through recent migrations, Western Europe.”
I'm betting that lots of whites are scared or wary of giving an honest answer when a media pollster calls and asks them what do they think of a black politician, especially our de facto president. That would help explain these numbers.
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