Posted on 09/15/2011 12:01:06 PM PDT by Baladas
A new poll released Thursday morning shows President Obama's approval rating is dropping in Virginia -- a battleground state the Democrat took from Republicans en route to winning the White House in 2008.
These new numbers show the president’s disapproval rating has spiked in Virginia to 54 percent. The Quinnipiac University Poll is based on telephone interviews with 1,368 registered voters between September 7-12. The results mirror other polls that show a continuing slide in the president’s popularity in a slow, troubled economy.
Fifty-one percent of those surveyed say they do not think President Obama deserves to be re-elected. That’s compared with 41 percent who said they would re-elect him. In June 2011, 48 percent approved of the president’s performance. That number now sits at 40 percent.
Most troubling for Obama is his poor performance among independents, many of whom supported him three years ago. Sixty-three percent of unaligned voters disapproved of the way Obama is handling his duties while only 29 percent approved.
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I hope they sampled Northern Virginia on this. They get a lions share of the fed jobs and are chugging along really well in regard to real estate and unemployment. Full of libs.
Maybe, but DO NOT count him out just yet. Cornered ‘Rats are vicious.
As it stands, members of his own party are going to either butt him or go down with him.
His disapproval is higher than those numbers here in VA. More like 60%.
Even Kenyans are now saying Obama was born in the USA.
The whole state needs to be reported to that new handy dandy web site Bambi set up.
At this rate he will be wishing he had Bush’s poll numbers.
Pray for America
is NBC throwing in the towel.... late night TV already has!
Obama will never win that state again next year, no matter what. From the Left Coast, their new governor is very impressive to me and should be considered as VP material.
[ These new numbers show the president’s disapproval rating has spiked in Virginia to 54 percent. ]
This means 46% of the people in Virginia are delusional..
The only way the Repubs take VA is if voters in Fairfax, Loudon and the VA Beach area stay home.
Massive vote fraud may be the Left's only winning strategy. And rest assured the Demonrats will have no compunction at using it massively.
What about the other “56” states?
The math is real, real simple. Obama is below 45% re-elect in the States of Florida, Virginia, Indiana, North Carolina, and is sitting at 46% in Ohio.
If those States do not vote for him in 2012, he will only have 273 Electoral Votes from his remaining 2008 States. Enough to give him the win... but he has to swing everything to win it!
This puts him in a corner.
If he loses any State more than the five listed above, he cannot win. Period.
Virginia has legislative elections this November. We’ll see how much dislike of Obama translates into dislike of the Dem Party in general.
I think VA will be in the Republican column in 2012. Most congressmen swept in with Obama were swept out in the mid-terms. Virginia has a heavy black population (40% in my city of Newport News) but even their support for the anointed one should slip a few points.
I live in fairfax county. Fairfax went blue in 2008 and then back red in 2010. This county won’t vote for Obama again.
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