There are a lot of theories floating around about why a sitting president would lower himself to do an embarrassing daytime gabfest like The View.
Fox News explains it all in just seven words: “Desperate attempt to hold women voters.”
When asked why he chose that particular arena, the president joked, “I was trying to find a show that Michelle actually watched.” But it’s not just the First Lady who’s tuning in. According to Nielsen Media Research 79% of “The View”’s audience is female, a demographic that’s started to cool on the president.
Fox News/Opinion Dynamics polling shows Mr. Obama averaged a 59% approval rating among women in 2009, but seven months into 2010, that’s dipped 14 points to just 45%. That’s tough news for a party that is used to benefitting from the gender gap, a phenomenon political analyst Larry Sabato says surfaced in the 1980 presidential election. “It exists in almost all elections, ranging from five to eight percentage points,” according to Sabato.
We just read the other day that he’s also losing ground with Hispanics. So don’t be surprised if he shows up on a Telemundo telenovella, one of those Spanish nighttime soap operas.
Ver Salomé y Sebastián la próxima semana, cuando Barack Obama desempeñará El Gran Jefe
Source: Fox News
