LGBT voters approve of Obama’s performance: poll

[Ian David]

LGBT voters approve of Obama’s performance: poll

Nearly 77 percent of LGBT participants in an unscientific straw poll the Washington Blade conducted during last month’s Capital Pride street festival said they approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing as president.

The president’s 76.9 percent approval rating among the LGBT respondents — most of whom said they live in D.C., Maryland or Virginia — far exceeds the 46 percent approval rating he received from American voters nationwide who participated in a Gallup Poll in June.

Just over 17 percent of the 519 LGBT people who responded to the Blade straw poll said they disapprove of the president’s job performance, and about 6 percent said they had no opinion.

In a separate question on the Blade straw poll, about 51 percent of LGBT respondents said they approve of the job Obama is doing in “addressing LGBT-related issues.” On the matter, about 36 percent said they disapprove and about 13 percent said they had no opinion.

More:
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2010/07/22/lgbt-voters-approve-of-obama%E2%80%99s-performance-poll/

[davidinalameda]

1. unscientific straw poll

this says it all

anyone could have voted in the poll-not just LGBT people

I'm sure I could run a poll saying the exact opposite

[luckyleftyme2]

2. polls are skewed

your right David polls are skewed; for instance I responded to a poll about McCain in 2008 and said he didn't have a chance ; the poll showed him winning! ha ha by a large margin!
I wonder if you ran that one!
roflmao

[Renew Deal]

3. Obama would do even better in a scientific poll

As he has so far.

[davidinalameda]

4. he's do better than 77% among the GLBT community?

PLEASE post some evidence of this

[Iggo]

5. Yeah, I don't think so.

That's one-out-of-one Iggo's, or a hundred percent.

[sui generis]

6. imagine my surprise. The Blade is still around?

:P

I thought they stopped syndicating news or something. What would be wrong with comparing an unscientific straw poll to a scientificly rigorous poll?

I wonder why they don't? That would certainly be more illuminating and indicative of reality than made up bullshit.

[davidinalameda]

10. they went out of business for a while

then some of their former employees started a new website and finally brought back the Blade

[TheWraith]

7. Not surprising.

Despite what you see on DU, he's got an approval rating in the high 80s from Democrats and self-described liberals. Most out LGBT folks are going to be Democrats and fairly liberal ones.

[dsc]

8. I really wish you wouldn't label this a poll

It is a much a poll as voodoo is medicine. Maybe he really is at the percentage, maybe he is better, maybe he is worse. We have no idea from that alledged poll.

[LostinVA]

9. bwwwahhh

[davidinalameda]

11. do I note a bit of skepticism in your post

:rofl:

[LostinVA]

12. An iota

[SunsetDreams]

13. Nice poll, sorry I missed this