Posted on 06/12/2012 4:58:41 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup Daily tracking indicates Barack Obama is receiving less support in the 2012 presidential election from some of the white subgroups that gave him the strongest support in 2008. These include non-Hispanic white registered voters who are 18 to 29 years old, female postgrads, and the nonreligious, among others. Obama won the 2008 election comfortably over John McCain, but the 2012 election contest with Mitt Romney is shaping up to be more competitive, with the two statistically tied since Gallup started Daily tracking on the race in April. These findings partly explain why.
For this analysis, Gallup has compared Obama's current support among registered voters, based on Gallup Daily tracking from May 21-June 10 with 7,343 registered voters, to his support among registered voters in Gallup's last month of interviewing in the 2008 pre-election poll, from Oct. 1-Nov. 2, comprising 30,623 registered voters.
Obama Down Five Percentage Points Among All Voters
The 46% of registered voters supporting Obama today is five percentage points below the 51% supporting him in final weeks of the 2008 election campaign. Similarly, whites' support for Obama is six points lower than it was in October/November 2008 (38% vs. 44%), and blacks' is down four points (87% vs. 91%). At the same time, Hispanics' support, at 67%, is essentially unchanged.
Whites make up about three-quarters of all U.S. registered voters, and are therefore the most important racial or ethnic group in any election, at least mathematically. Even if Obama were to regain his 2008 level of support among blacks and improve his support somewhat among Hispanics, he could still lose if his support among whites slips any further. By the same token, even a slight increase in whites' support could secure his re-election.
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It’s because they just realized he is black and they’re all RACISTS!!!!/sarc.
You can only ride that “white guilt” train so far. Especially when you’re wearing out the race card every day. Most are coming to the realization that Obama is nothing but a two-bit Chicago punk.
Something’s turning all those white Obama supporters into racists.
Obama’s base has a crack? What a coincidence. So does mine.
Obama should show some leadership here and use the bully pulpit to quash the incessant racial dimension being played by the media and pollsters. It is unseemly.
I thought it was a Uniter? Wha happen?
Obama is free-basing white crack?
So he wears make-up?
Tomorrows Gallup report: Why has the black demographic’s support for Obama slipped the least?
Sounds like something that you used to Paint with—maybe to “whitewash” walls...God knows he’s whitewashed over the truth - can we get the “SUPER JUMBO WHITE BASE CONTAINER”?
Sounds like something that you used to Paint with—maybe to “whitewash” walls...God knows he’s whitewashed over the truth - can we get the “SUPER JUMBO WHITE BASE CONTAINER”?
How can he have a white base since all white are racist?
Obama’s White Base Shows Cracks......
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I knew that White folk would eventually start slabbing their pants like the young, Black gangstas do.
YOUR POST #13: “America’s First Gay President” (Newsweek Magazine)
I really did LOL at your Post #6.
I’ve been showing my white crack to Obama and his base for nye on four years.
bingo... 
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