Remember those independents who elected President Obama? The ones who had supposedly joined with the Democrats to create an enduring new majority? Say bye-bye, Barack.
Gallup has the news of the independents’ new found independence:
Thirty-eight percent of independents approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as president, the first time independent approval of Obama has dropped below 40% in a Gallup Daily tracking weekly aggregate. Meanwhile, Obama maintains the support of 81% of Democrats, and his job approval among Republicans remains low, at 12%.
Over the past year, Obama has lost support among all party groups, though the decline has been steeper among independents than among Republicans or Democrats. Today’s 38% approval rating among independents is 18 percentage points lower than the 56% found July 6-12, 2009. During the same period, his support has fallen nine points among Democrats (from 90% to 81%) and eight points among Republicans (from 20% to 12%).
At the rate this guy is going, even Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will vote Republican in November.
Source: Gallup
This post was last modified on July 7, 2010
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Most of these polls are done in places like ew York, Chicago, And several cities in Northern Mexico. . .uh, I mean California. Can you feature what the results would be if the "flyover states" (what an insulting desription by the way)? His rating would be even lower if they polled in the midwest, south, and western states NOT on the coast!
Remember this story from 2004?
http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm
"At the rate this guy is going, even Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will vote Republican in November." .... jeez, I fell off my chair laughing!!!