There’s an interesting first paragraph in Gallup’s report on their latest survey of Obama’s approval. We say interesting because we think they could have skipped the first sentence and gone directly to the second sentence.
The first sentence:
President Obama’s job approval rating averaged 88% among blacks and 38% among whites in July, a 50-percentage-point difference that has been consistent in recent months but is much larger than in the initial months of the Obama presidency.
The second sentence, the one that should have started the story:
Obama’s job approval ratings among blacks, whites, and Hispanics in July are all at their lowest levels to date, although the overwhelming majority of blacks still approve.
Isn’t the real story here that Obama has hit new lows with every group?
Blacks’ approval of the job Obama is doing dipped below the 90% threshold for the second month in a row in July; the 88% July average is the lowest monthly average approval rating blacks have given Obama yet, although not significantly lower than the 89% recorded in June.
The slight drop in blacks’ ratings since May matches the pattern among whites and Hispanics. Obama’s June and July ratings among whites are the lowest monthly ratings of his administration among that group, as is his 54% July rating among Hispanics.
Whites’ approval of Obama is down 24 points from the high of 62% in January 2009. Hispanics’ approval has dropped 28 points from its 82% peak in May 2009. Blacks’ approval has been much more stable, falling seven points from the high of 95% in June 2009.
Of course, if 95% of whites disapproved of him, it would surely be a sign of America’s deep raaaacism. Pure, unadulterated raaaacism.
Welcome to America 2010, racist.
Source: Gallup
