Can President Obama win re-election if almost two-thirds of whites are opposed to him?

CNN's Cafferty File ^ | November 16, 2011 | Jack Cafferty

[2ndDivisionVet]

With just about a year to ago until Election Day, the U.S. is a racially divided nation when it comes to President Barack Obama.

Consider this: A new CNN/Opinion Research Poll shows 61% of whites disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job vs. 36% who don’t – that’s almost two-to-one. For non-whites, it's almost the mirror image. Only 32% disapprove while 67% approve.

For a president who was supposed to symbolize a post-racial America, this is not good news. When Obama defeated John McCain in 2008, he did it with significant support from white Americans.

Exit polls showed Obama won 43% of white voters. That was the largest share of white support in a two-man race since 1976. Among young white voters, Obama did even better, getting 54% of their support. If Obama wants a second term, he needs to win back support from more white Americans in the coming months.

Meanwhile our new poll shows other results that could spell trouble for Obama. Overall, he gets a 46% approval rating, with 52% saying they disapprove.

When you compare that rating with recent incumbents running for re-election, the president ranks only above Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. They both lost their re-election bids. Most incumbents who win re-election had an approval rating above 50% a year before the election.

Finally, the poll shows 54% of the crucial independent voters disapprove of the job Obama is doing...

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

True. On the other hand, blacks constitute above 15% of the population in states carrying 135 electoral votes, half the total needed for victory. It’s absurd to claim that they’re an unimportant segment of the electorate.

[Bullish]

Does anyone except the extreme left think that Obama can stand there with a straight face and defend his own disastrous record in a debate with any opponent?

Heck, even Pinky Ron Paul could destroy him in a debate.

[Freeper]

Obama is not black — he is half white. He had a white mother and a black father. Because his father was black DOES NOT make him black. This falsehood is constantly being perpetrated on the white American public. At a minimum, he is mulatto - - nothing more, nothing less. HE IS NOT A BLACK PRESIDENT. As I tell Democrats, I am not a racist, I do not like the while half either!!!

Actually it is LESS

On his mothers side there are all caucasions (white)thru at least her great grand parents. On his dads side there is only ONE Black (negro or negroid) in his faimly thru his grandparents (as reported) - the remaining are Arab.

Arabs - as a race - are considered Caucasian, therefore making Barak Hussein Obama (rounded) 92% Caucasian.

His children,because of Machelles heritage are actually more of the black race than Obama is.

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong. This comment is based on facts about race - nothing more, nothing less.

[GlockThe Vote]

I will do almost anything to get this disaster gone.

[caww]

Normally I would agree with you QNQ but this President IS playing the race card, and for that if that’s the game he’s chosen, and he has, then we can absolutely expect many in the black community will vote for him regardless if their common sense reads tha handwriting on the wall concerning his actual performance as President. Though I’d like to think they’ve, like so many of us, have moved beyond that issue, it’s not the reality of how Obama’s playing his hand.