It is grasping. First of all, Obama’s “favorability” is still under 50. Any incumbent with polling numbers under 50 is in deep trouble.
But Obama has it even worse: his favorability is inflated. Not by much, maybe 2 or 3 percentage points. But there are many people who are refraining from sharing their true opinion due to the race factor. When you spend four years knowing that any criticism of the president can get you labeled a racist, you tend to keep those feelings to yourself.
To be clear: those two or three points are not closet racists. Just the opposite. They are good people who do not want to be assumed racists.
Now that I’ve posted this, I suppose I’ll be called a racist.
OK. Your a racist; now that we have that out of the way, I can say that yes, I am a racist. I will never vote for a RED for any reason at all.
Currently, the Pollster average has Obama with 48 percent favorability and 45 percent unfavorability,
Yet, the most reliable polls currently available -- the The Gallup and Rasmussen tracking polls -- have Obama trailing Romney by 47-45 and 47-43, respectively.
There are those 2-3 percentage points you're referring to --people who will admit to "liking" President Obama, to avoid a charge of racism...but won't vote for him.
And I'd wager there are 2-3 percentage points more who claim they're going to vote for Obama on the phone...but, once inside the privacy of a voting booth, will do otherwise.
I see nothing to like about an arrogant, narcissistic dictator. If someone wants to pretend that that statement is racist I don’t particularly care.