A new Gallup poll shows just how racially divided the country has become over the President. The poll shows a whopping 91% of Blacks supporting Barack Obama as compared to only 36% of Whites.
President Obama’s overall approval rating has stayed below 50% and some polls have him in the 30s. This poll shows him at 45%.
Democrats still like Obama by 79% and liberals are just slightly lower at 75%. The poll would suggest that liberals are not altering their views of the President despite his adoption of many Bush era policies, as discussed earlier.
Gallup shows failing popularity in every other demographic group beyond African-Americans:
57%. Hispanics: 55%. Moderates: 54%. Unmarrieds: 53%. Easterners: 52%. Women: 47%. Midwesterners and Westerners: 45%.
Beyond Whites in general, the worst groups are married citizens at 39% and seniors at 38%.
While the Administration has been trying to appeal to conservatives in various areas, it does not seem to be having an impact. Obama has a 23% popularity among conservatives. For Republicans, it is down to 12%.
Source: LA Times
Elaine:
“Do you think a real old time liberal could support the Republican party?”
Not fully, no.
SwM,
Those losers have been a huge problem for decades … even in local elections they often operate without conscience … mob mentality … upscale teabaggers … as you can tell, I have nothing but contempt for that organization and everybody in my town knows it. I have turned down every invitation they have put forward … with appropriate comments. It amazes me that they keep sending them.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/05/foreign-chamber-commerce/ The largest attack being mounted against the democrats is coming from the US Chamber of Commerce’s 501c that can raise unlimited funds without disclosing its donors.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/in_texas_biggest_county_a_minority_registration_dr.php?ref=fpblg First the tea party comes out for puppy mills and indicates the humane society is a leftist group. Now they are trying to deny the minorities the right to vote in Houston.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/missouri_tea_partiers_joe_the_plumber_join_movemen_1.php?ref=fpi Lottakatz The tea party is opposing the Humane Society’s effort to ban puppy mills in Missouri.
Lottakatz,
Here are some cartoons you might enjoy:
Tea Party takes over comics page
(From boston.com)
By Ward Sutton
The newspaper comics page: some find it to be innocuous, even at times irrelevant. But there’s a growing concern among a certain segment of the country that the comics page is out of step with mainstream values, if not an outright cesspool of treasonous, pinko propaganda. So in the interest of fairness and balance we present comics reinvented by “Tea Party cartoonist Joe Smith” — with a little help from Ward Sutton.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/cartoons/092410_Tea_Party/
Elaine M, thank you for the poem, it was a great melding of humor and truth.
Very early on the teabagger’s and a few of the concerative blogs were using “teabag” properly. There were signs, at east one demonstration that read “Teabag the liberal Dems before they teabag you”. It was OK as long as it was an inside joke. I guess they, or their leaders/controllers, figured the MSM or the left just wouldn’t go there. LOL, wrong.
They’ll always be teabagger’s to me 😈
From Think Progress
Health Insurers Funding Secretive Attack Group Run By A Prominent GOP Lobbyist
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/04/health-insurer-attack/
Health insurance companies, after funding tens of millions of dollars in attack ads aimed to kill health reform, are now funding Republican candidates promising to repeal or water-down the bill. A report today notes that insurance companies have massively shifted their campaign giving to Republicans, and that health professionals have “quietly become the biggest supporters of the nascent Tea Party Caucus” with donations of “more than $2.7 million to Tea Party Caucus members.” Additionally, a report today by the Center for Public Integrity republished by National Journal reveals that veteran Republican lobbyist Scott Reed has stepped up to create a $25 million dollar front group to run ads against Democrats, and that it will be funded partially by insurance companies:
Meanwhile, lobbyist Reed’s fledgling Commission on Hope, Growth and Opportunity, a 501 (c) (4) raised over half its $25 million goal to run ads in 20 House districts and a few Senate contests, Reed says. Where’s the dough coming from? “The big three stepping into the batter’s box are the financial services industry, the energy industry, and the health insurance industry,” Reed said.
Reed credits the recent Supreme Court ruling knocking down nearly a century of campaign finance laws with the increased fundraising haul for Republican attack groups. “Citizens United opened the door for the unparalleled participation by corporations at the financial level,” Reed told reporter Peter Stone. Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that the health insurance industry met and planned a $20 million dollar “war chest” to be used against its opponents during the election this year. It is still unclear if Reed’s group or the Tea Party caucus donations are part of that fund.
tomdarch
Thanks. I wondered why Detroit (national Murder City in 1974) wasn’t on the “Most Dangerous Neighborhoods” listings. I guess I still do since the population of Detroit must be lower per square mile than almost any other city. Maybe there’s nobody left to prey on.
Like you, I follow the money. Wait for it – WalletPop is willing to SELL you the information about any neighborhood you are considering moving to. They neither know nor care how effective their information is, they just want you to buy it!
Just like all those pols you list who are trying to sell a book by simulating a political run. I’ve never thought Ms. Palin was interested in being President – too much like work. But she never has to run for an office again; people are willing to pay big bucks for her to just show up – at least for now. Won’t last, of course.
I view this poll as meaningless, because “support” and “approve” do not mean anything. I voted for Obama enthusiastically in 2008, and now I am horribly disappointed in him, for, among other things, expanding the war in Afghanistan and into Pakistan, not prosecuting but covering up for Bush and other torturers, arguing in court to expand the state secrets doctrine, attempting to murder American citizens without due process, keeping people imprisoned without trial in Guantanamo and Bagram, prosecuting more whistleblowers than Bush did, not fighting for a public option in the health care legislation, and more. But I will vote for him in 2012 as the lesser evil, as any Republican possibility would be even worse. Does that make me an Obama “supporter”? Or does it put me in the same category as people who disapprove of Obama because they think that he is a Muslim and a socialist?
This has nothing to do with Barack, it is a problem with a long and sordid history of racism, exceptionalism, and dumber than an doorknob culture in the USA.
Carl Paladino–another of my favorite Tea Party Republicans…
From Think Progress (10/3/2010)
Paladino Took Government Tax Break By Pledging To Deliver Jobs, But Instead Pocketed The Money
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/03/paladino-tax-breaks/
Excerpt:
An investigation by the New York Daily News finds that New York GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, a multi-millionaire real estate developer, promised to revive the economy of Buffalo by creating new jobs, received $3 million in state tax breaks to do so, but then pocketed the tax refunds while delivering very few jobs:
A Daily News probe found Paladino’s companies netted $3 million in tax breaks through a program called the Empire Zones – while producing a grand total of 25 new jobs.
To justify tax breaks in one instance, he sold a dozen vacant lots he owned to himself and claimed hundreds of thousands of dollars in “real property investments.” Seven years later, these “investments” remain what they were – vacant lots.
His Empire Zone investments consisted mostly of renovating his own buildings – $19 million worth. He completed no new construction and brought no new businesses in any of his Empire Zone projects.
Instead, the Paladino companies such as the Ellicott Group mostly generate income through six big office buildings that collect millions of dollars in rent.
Ironically, Paladino claims his campaign is standing up for taxpayers. For instance, he wants to slash the state’s Medicaid spending by almost half because, he said, New York invites anyone to “come here and sit on the backs of our taxpayers.”
Christine O’Donnell, the Republican gift that keeps on giving…hope to the Democrats.
*****
Christine O’Donnell Said In 2006 She Had Classified Information About China Plotting To Take Over U.S.
BEN EVANS | 10/ 4/10
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/04/christine-odonnell-china_n_749551.html
Excerpt:
WASHINGTON — Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell of Delaware said in a 2006 debate that China was plotting to take over America and claimed to have classified information about the country that she couldn’t divulge.
O’Donnell’s comments came as she and two other Republican candidates debated U.S. policy on China during Delaware’s 2006 Senate primary, which O’Donnell ultimately lost.
She said China had a “carefully thought out and strategic plan to take over America” and accused one opponent of appeasement for suggesting that the two countries were economically dependent and should find a way to be allies.
“That doesn’t work,” she said. “There’s much I want to say. I wish I wasn’t privy to some of the classified information that I am privy to.”
Gyges,
“Or that an old time conservative would?”
Not any of the old time conservatives from my state!
“Do you honestly think that if Jefferson was born 30 years ago would hold the same views as he did at age 30? People reflect their culture.”
I don’t think anyone can tell us what Jefferson would think if he were born in the 20th century.
BTW, did you see the segment that Stephen Colbert did on Antonin “The Originalist” Scalia on his show last week? It was a riot!
Here’s a link to the video of the Scalia segment, which was posted at Daily Kos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/30/12522/8172
Elaine,
Or that an old time conservative would?
Do you honestly think that if Jefferson was born 30 years ago would hold the same views as he did at age 30? People reflect their culture.
Byron The republican party is in the process of purging itself of moderates. The democratic party includes everyone from Barbara Lee, the only member of congress to vote against the authorization of troops in 2001, to someone as conservative as Ben Nelson.
tomdarch :
I was looking to see if Camden,here in Jersey made the list,the city officials seem to go to jail down there just as fast as do the so called criminals.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20016601-503544.html Byron, today’s republicans make George Bush look like a liberal according to Bill Clinton. Your party has pushed the dialogue very far to the right.
Byron,
“If you are a real old time liberal there is no way you could support the democratic party of today.”
Do you think a real old time liberal could support the Republican party?
Blouise,
There’s a word in the poem that’s just a tiny bit of a clue for you. You still may not want to do research on the term teabagging. All I can say is that I was taken aback when I found out the meaning of the word.