Poll: 4 in 10 Obama Backers No Longer Support Him
By Mark Noonan on Loser Watch
From Bloomberg:
<<< Hope has turned to doubt and disenchantment for almost half of President Barack Obama’s supporters.
More than 4 of 10 likely voters who say they once considered themselves Obama backers now are either less supportive or say they no longer support him at all, according to a Bloomberg National Poll conducted Oct. 7-10… >>>
Obama and his Democrats are counting on fire up his supporters to stem the tide of defeat on November 2nd – this poll indicates their efforts might not bear much fruit.
As I’ve said before, Obama won because he was the “Un-Named Democrat” in the flesh. You might recall that for years an “Un-Named Democrat” always polled better than this or that specific Republican in Presidential polling. The reason for this, in my view, is that people could place their finest ideals on an unknown person and prefer that to the all too fallible reality of a particular Republican. Once, however, people had to choose between an actual Democrat and an actual Republican, things changed. Obama swept in to American politics with hardly anyone taking a really long, hard look at him…and as he was a blank canvass, and wasn’t what we had at the moment, people could think what they would of him.
And they loved it. He was Hope and Change; he was the man who would, at long last, bring an end to politics as usual and heal our divides. The only trouble was that Obama wasn’t a blank canvass – he was, and is, a very real man…and his reality is as a hard left ideologue.
As a hard left ideologue, Obama is a mish-mash of ignorance, bigotry and crack-brained schemes. Once in office, all of this came to the fore because Obama was unequipped to do anything else. Being what he is, he could not do other than increase the divisions between us; could not do other than advance the cause of liberal special interests; could not do other than advance liberal economic and social policies rejected by the broad majority of the electorate. As this all came out, people became disillusioned – and now its showing in polls.
I don’t think he’ll be able to get that back – not now, and not in 2012. Even if the economy improves, I think that Obama has built up a reservoir of distrust which he will not be able to overcome. He said – or, more accurately, had said about him – things which were not true of himself or his plans. People feel betrayed – feel that they were conned in to backing someone they would not otherwise have supported.
We’ll see how all this works out, but this decision on the part of Democrats to force Obama through the primaries and bamboozle the American majority in to backing him will, I think, prove the most self-destructive act in liberalism’s history.
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