The Gallup Poll today shows massive defection from President Obama from among non-whites.
There is plenty of evidence in this poll that many Blacks voted for President Obama and continue his support simply because he is Black (unless you believe that Blacks and Whites have different brains), but the REAL story in this Gallup Poll is this sentence:
“Independents’ approval of Obama has declined (compared to Republicans) nearly as much (down 18 points), whereas support among Democrats is down only 6 points.”
In a nation almost evenly divided independents hold the key to elections, and the Gallup identified loss of independents by 18% mirrors the loss of independents in the actual elections in North Carolina and Virginia.
The losers in polls always discount polls, but all Presidents and each political party use daily tracking polls of their own.
In the end, polls may make mistakes but they are good guideposts along the way to elections, and elections are the ultimate poll. Already we see President Poll moving to the right on deficits and spending as elections loom and we will see it further in President Obama’s speech at West Point. (It is unlikely that President Obama will go to WooPoo to announce an Afghanistan surrender.)
The President will try to manage to have it both ways – feeding more men into war and accepting the Nobel Peace Prize.
The polls will continue to plunge…except among Blacks (and President Obama’s support has declined there as well). President Obama is a national example of the former New York Mayor David Dinkins.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/124484/Obama-Approval-Slide-Finds-Whites-Down-39.aspx
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