President Barack Obama Slips in Polls with White, Black & Hispanic Voters

What a difference 2 – 1/2 years makes, a lack of leadership and a dithering approach to the Presidency.

President Barack Obama has been an unmitigated disaster as President. Even the LEFT will tell you that he has been a disappointment and he was waffled and flip-flopped on many of his campaign promises of 2008. Now we are presented with polling data where Obama not only is struggling with White voters, he is also doing the same with Black voters. In the 2008 election, Barack Obama ran well only among two groups of whites,  young people and white women with at least a four year college education. However, in 2012 that might be a different story …

According to a recent Pew Poll shows that the 2010 GOP landslide just might be a harbinger of things to come for Obama in 2012. Barack Obama is only polling at 37%, down from his 43% in the 2008 election.

Figures provided to National Journal by Pew from the new survey suggests that Obama has recaptured ground Democrats lost with well-educated white women in 2010-but that he is still struggling with every other segment of the white electorate, including younger voters.

On the other, polls consistently suggest he may struggle to match the modest 43 percent support among whites that he drew in 2008, according to the Edison Research exit poll. In the 2010 mid-term election, according to the Edison exit poll, just 37 percent of whites backed Democrats in House races, while 60 percent supported Republicans-the highest share of the white vote Republicans have won in a House election in the history of modern polling. Obama’s approval rating among all whites in the Pew survey stands at a similar 38 percent.

Think Obama is just having an issue with white voters, think again. The One is also struggling with black voters, if that can be believed. Thus the reason why after all his time in the White House, Obama made his way up to Harlem to visit Al Sharpton this week. Obama could go golfing and on vacations, but not visit his most faithful members of his base. According to a recent Gallup poll, Obama has lost ground with black voters.

Blacks continue to back him by a wide margin, with 85 percent of respondents saying they approved of him in the latest Gallup poll.

But that number dropped a hefty 5 percentage points from last month, marking the lowest rating among that core constituency that he’s had since taking office.

He also dropped 5 points among Hispanics, sliding from 59 percent to 54, according to the poll. That number ties his July and August 2010 lows.

You do not get a second time to make a first impression and the gig is up with Barack Obama in 2012. He cannot run as an outsider or a candidate of “Hope & Change”, try as he might.

8.8% Unemployment, Eh … Gallup Says 10.0% and Underemployment at 19.3%

Yesterday, the Labor Department stated that the unemployment rate dropped to 8.8% in March. Really? Not according to Gallup that states that unemployment is at 10% and underemployment is at 19.3%. Even though the March numbers are lower than February, they are still far too high and going at a snail’s pace recovery. Could it be because of too much government interference, regulation and failed Obama economic policy?

Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, was 10.0% in March — down from 10.2% in mid-March and 10.3% at the end of February, but above the 9.8% at the end of January. U.S. unemployment was 10.4% at the end of March a year ago.

As reported in the WSJ,‘We Have Become a Nation of Takers, not Makers’. The problem, there are far too many people who work for the government of compared to construction, farming, fishing, forestry, manufacturing, mining and utilities combined.

If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many people working for the government (22.5 million) than in all of manufacturing (11.5 million). This is an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960, when there were 15 million workers in manufacturing and 8.7 million collecting a paycheck from the government.

It gets worse. More Americans work for the government than work in construction, farming, fishing, forestry, manufacturing, mining and utilities combined. We have moved decisively from a nation of makers to a nation of takers. Nearly half of the $2.2 trillion cost of state and local governments is the $1 trillion-a-year tab for pay and benefits of state and local employees. Is it any wonder that so many states and cities cannot pay their bills?

Gallup: Ronald Reagan Named Greatest US President Ever

With President’s Day 2011 almost upon us this coming Monday, according to a recent Gallup poll, Ronald Wilson Reagan was named the greatest United States President ever.  In the past 12 years of this survey, Reagan, Lincoln and JFK has have topped the list. If you ask me for the top 3 greatest Presidents ever … Lincoln, Washington and Reagan.

Ronald Reagan Speech – 1964 Republican National Convention

From 1964 to present, his words make even more sense today.

The 2011 poll had the rating as follows: 1. Reagan, 2. Lincoln, 3. Clinton, 4. JFK, 5. Washington and 7. Obama. With all due respect to those voting, its bad enough that Bill Clinton would have been named #3 and ahead of JFK, but Barack Obama at seven? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Its obvious that 5% of those voting couln’t name another US President other than Obama. Would this mean as pointed out by Michelle Malkin.com that according to liberal MSM comparisons of Obama to Reagan, even though they have nothing in common, that Obama’s wins by the transiative property? The answer would be, no.

We might want to see what the break down looked like according to Republicans, Democrats and Independents. Some might find in shocking that Democrats would pick Clinton ahead of Kennedy, Obama ahead of FDR and Lincoln and George Washington no where to be seen. Then again, nothing should surprise us any more from these folks.

Read the full story at Gallup.com

Gallup: Barack Obama in Tie With Generic GOP Candidate for 2012 Presidential Election

According to the most recent Gallup Poll, Barack Obama is a deadlock tie, 45% – 45%, as to if registered voters would support Obama or an “unnamed” Republican candidate. One year ago Obama had a 44% to 42% lead when the same question was asked. So where did that so-called bounce for Obama and come back kid go that the MSM has been shilling?

As stated at The Hill, the results of the Gallup poll provide optimism for the many GOP candidates that are expected to run in the Republican Presidentialprimary to face Obama. Obama’s talk of “winning the future” looks like it may not include him politically. Although Republicans have a long way to go and need to come up with a dynamic new candidate, not a past retread … Barack Obama does face the spectre of losing to an unnamed candidate, not even a headline name.

The poll, release Wednesday, underlines an opportunity for the large field of potential Republican candidates looking to defeat Obama on the heels of the Democrats’ “shellacking” in the 2010 midterm elections, when they lost control of the House and six Senate seats.

The results of the generic ballot survey are virtually unchanged from last year, when Obama held a slight two-point edge over a generic Republican.

But the poll suggests Obama is more vulnerable than former President George W. Bush at this point in his presidency.

Interestingly enough, when Obama’s poll versus a generic candidate is compared to GWB at the same time, Bush beat a generic Democrat among registered voters by 47% to 39%.

In polling from October 2001 through January 2004, George W. Bush consistently led an unnamed Democratic opponent, although by a shrinking margin as his job approval rating descended from a post-9/11 reading of 87% to the 50s and 60s. In February 2003, the point in Bush’s presidency comparable to Obama’s presidency today, Bush beat a generic Democrat among registered voters by 47% to 39%.

The Obama Job Recovery … 9% Unemployment and only 36,000 New Jobs Created in Jan. 2011

GOOD GRIEF … ONLY 36,000 NEW JOBS CRATED IN JANUARY 2011 …

Welcome to the Barack Obama non-job recovery. The unemployment rate fell from 9.4% to 9.0%; however, only 36,000 new jobs were created in January 2011. WHAT A JOKE! There is no way Obama or any one from his administration or party better be spinning the unemployment rate falling as a positive sign for the economy. 36,000 jobs, that’s it? As Just One Minute states, Obama is focusing on jobs like a laser as he has made promise after promise in SOTU speeches.

The unemployment rate dropped sharply last month to 9 percent, based on a government survey that found that more than a half-million people found work.

A separate survey of company payrolls showed a scant increase of 36,000 net jobs as snowstorms likely hampered hiring. That survey doesn’t count the self-employed.

Harsh snowstorms last month cut into construction employment, which fell by 32,000, the most since May. Transportation and warehousing was also likely affected and fell by 38,000 — the most in a year.

“The thumbprints of the weather were all over this report,” said Neil Dutta, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Hiring was suppressed last month and will likely rebound in February, he said.

 The AP reported that part of the drop was due to people just giving up. Wrong AP, not part, pretty much all. How on earth can a national unemployment rate fall by .4% and only 36,000 new jobs were created? People are discouraged and have all but given up on searching for jobs.

But part of that drop has occurred as many of those out of work gave up on their job searches. When unemployed people stop looking for jobs, the government no longer counts them as unemployed. 

Labor Force Participation Plunges To Fresh 26 Year Low.

At 64.2%, the labor force participation rate (as a percentage of the total civilian noninstitutional population) is now at a fresh 26 year low, the lowest since March 1984, and is the only reason why the unemployment rate dropped to 9% (labor force declined from 153,690 to 153,186). Those not in the Labor Force has increased from 83.9 million to 86.2 million, or 2.2 million in one year! As for the numerator in the fraction, the number of unemployed, it has plunged from 15 million to 13.9 million in two months! The only reason for this is due to the increasing disenchantment of those who completely fall off the BLS rolls and no longer even try to look for a job.

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