WaPo/ABC News Poll: African Americans' strongly favorable view of Obama drops 25% in 5 months

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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New cracks have begun to show in President Obama’s support amongst African Americans, who have been his strongest supporters. Five months ago, 83 percent of African Americans held “strongly favorable” views of Obama, but in a new Washington Post-ABC news poll that number has dropped to 58 percent. That drop is similar to slipping support for Obama among all groups.

“There is a certain amount of racial loyalty and party loyalty, but eventually that was going to have to weaken,” said Andra Gillespie, a political scientist at Emory University, who studies African Americans. “It’s understandable given the economy.”

African Americans have historically correlated approval ratings of the president to the unemployment rate, she said. The slip in the strongly favorable rating continues the decline Obama has seen among all groups, but black voters have been his staunchest supporters. Overall, they still hold a generally favorable view of the president with 86 percent saying they view him at least somewhat favorably.

Gillespie’s view that the decline is tied to the disproportionately high jobless rate faced by African Americans correlates with the drop in their view of Obama’s handling of the economy. In July, only 54 percent of blacks said they thought Obama’s policies were making the economy better compared with 77 percent the previous year.

WashPost/ABC News Poll: Big Drop In Black Support For President Obama

[dennis4868]

1. Repub mision accomplsihed

Obama has a plan to make progress = repubs obstruct = Obama looks weaken and as though he doesn't care = lower polls numbers = CBC and other libs bash Obama...Repub plan working better tha they could have ever imagined. This plan, by the way, could only work against liberals, not any other political party. Feel so bad for Obama who could have done so much more for this country if not for the unprecedented reoub obstruction....lost time! And so many liberals falling for this shit.

[Indydem]

2. Is that tortured logic getting tired yet?

He had control of the house and a filibuster proof majority in the senate for over a year.

Anything the he wanted to do to make progress could have been accomplished and the republicons could have just sat and spun.

No my friend, President Barack Obama was never planning to make progress for African Americans or anyone else except banksters and Wall Street.

Mission Accomplished!

[dennis4868]

6. lie again...

fillubuster proof in the senate for a few months until Kennedy started getting very sick and then died in the summer of 2009.

[Indydem]

8. How about you get your facts straight.

Kennedy continued to vote up until August 6, 2009. Giving President Obama over 6 full months of filibuster proof control of the senate.

If he was a progressive and had any intention of passing progressive legislation (single payer, progressive tax increases,a REAL stimulus) he should have done it in the first 100 days.

Keep making excuses.

[MrTriumph]

3. Falling for what? Democrats were hoodwinked by O in 2008.

Obama Apologists are always quick to dismiss the mountain of evidence that Pres. Obama is not one of us.

[emilyg]

4. For once - put the

blame where it belongs.

[dennis4868]

7. I am...

man the repubs are laughing all the way to the bank on this....so sad.

[YellowCosmicSun]

5. Keep flinging poo at the man. He'll come out clean on the other side.