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To: Alighieri who wrote (616590)6/19/2011 3:03:40 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1585542
 
Barack Obama Is Popular With His Base

By Matthew Yglesias on Jun 19, 2011 at 12:29 pm

After hearing a lot of anti-Obama sentiment from speakers at Netroots Nation I was planning to do a post noting how unrepresentative the NN crowd—mostly male, overwhelmingly white—is from the actual base of the Democratic Party which continues to like Barack Obama a lot:
(graph at link)

But according to Christina Bellantoni, the best survey we have actually shows that the Netroots Nation attendees mirror this generous assessment of the president:

"A straw poll conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research showed that 80 percent either approve or strongly approve of the president more than a year before voters head to the polls to decide whether he deserves a second term. The results broke down to 27 percent strongly approving of Obama and 53 percent approving “somewhat.” Thirteen percent said they “somewhat disapprove,” and 7 percent strongly disapprove of the president."

Nothing earth-shattering. But a reminder that the proximate problem faced by would-be left-wing critics of President Obama is that they generally have much less credibility with the progressive constituency than the president does himself.

thinkprogress.org
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