ABCNEWSWASHPOST POLL: Obama personal popularity fading (health care, gas prices, voters, Democrats)
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Barack Obama approaches his nomination for a second term with the lowest pre-convention personal popularity of an incumbent president in ABC News/Washington Post polls since the 1980s. He’s also at his lowest of the year among registered voters, with trouble among women.
Just 47 percent of registered voters in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll see Obama favorably overall, down 7 percentage points from his recent peak in April, while 49 percent rate him unfavorably. He’s numerically underwater in this group for the first time since February.
The decline has occurred entirely among women registered voters – from 57-39 percent favorable-unfavorable in April to a numerically negative 46-50 percent now. That’s Obama’s lowest score among women voters – a focus of recent political positioning – in ABC/Post polls since he took office.
As if misery loves company, Mitt Romney’s favorability rating remains numerically lower even than Obama’s in this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates. Nonetheless Romney does show a faint convention bounce, a 5-point gain in favorability among all adults vs. a week ago. (Gallup, separately, today reported no bounce for Romney in the horse race, a different measurement than favorability.)
Among all Americans, 40 percent now see Romney favorably, 47 percent unfavorably – better than last week’s 35-51 percent, albeit still underwater. Among registered voters, though, the change from last week is too slight to reach statistical significance – a scant +3 points favorable, -3 unfavorable, from 40-51 percent then to 43-48 percent now. (Registered voters divided evenly on Romney, 44-44 percent, in May.)
This is what happens when a party picks a poor candidate instead of picking a strong candidate that should have no problem beating a president with weak numbers.
This is what happens when a party picks a poor candidate instead of picking a strong candidate that should have no problem beating a president with weak numbers.
What's really funny is how much crow you'll be eating in November.
You know what is funny about this, Romney's is worse.
This is what happens when a party picks a poor candidate instead of picking a strong candidate that should have no problem beating a president with weak numbers.
We all know this. The thing is, Romney can win on the economy. Obama needs to make this about how unlikable Romney is in order to win. If his popularity fades and Romney's gains, he starts losing ground with a strategy that has been effective thus far.
This poll, like others, just goes to show that the summer of negativity from the Democrats failed to reshape Romney's image or make him less acceptable to be leading this nation. The War on Women, War on Hispanics, War on Whatever rhetoric is not working. What Americans want is a solution to the economic troubles and someone to deliver. P
resident Obama can still make his case this week and in the coming 2 months. If he cannot lay out not just a hopeful vision but a practical path to get there, he cannot win. And that goes for Romney as well.
This poll, like others, just goes to show that the summer of negativity from the Democrats failed to reshape Romney's image or make him less acceptable to be leading this nation. The War on Women, War on Hispanics, War on Whatever rhetoric is not working. What Americans want is a solution to the economic troubles and someone to deliver. P
resident Obama can still make his case this week and in the coming 2 months. If he cannot lay out not just a hopeful vision but a practical path to get there, he cannot win. And that goes for Romney as well.
This is all true.....but the DNC isn't about the future nor is it about Obama's recent record.
They are totting out a President from 40 years ago and another President from 20 years ago instead. Then to top that off, they use a dead guy (a criminal to boot) to attack Romney.
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