AK, how is it that the professional Democratic Party operatives see things differently than you do ? In other words, the people serving you the Kool-Aid are apparently not drinking it.
Politico
Obama's blue-state blues
By: Edward-Isaac Dovere
September 15, 2011 04:52 AM EDT
Barack Obama has a case of the blue state blues.
In Democratic strongholds from Vermont to Californiaânot to mention New York City, where the president helped sink his partyâs nominee in Tuesdayâs special electionâObama isnât quite tanking, but heâs moving unmistakably in the wrong direction.
...But pollsters point to the canary-in-the-coalmine factor: if Obama canât hold these voters, they say, itâs a sign that his wider support among the reliably Democratic electorate of liberals, labor, young people, Jews, African-Americans and other key blocs is withering. They wonât be there in large numbers to put him over the top again in borderline states, and they wonât be there to feed his campaign money and provide volunteer support at the levels they did in 2008.
Tuesdayâs election in New Yorkâs heavily Democratic Queens- and Brooklyn-based 9th District proved to be an extreme manifestation of Obamaâs blue state problem: His approval rating was at 43 percent in a Sept. 9 Siena Research Institute poll and 31 percent in a Sept. 11 automated poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm. By contrast, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo posted a 75 percent approval rating in the district, according to the Siena poll.
âIt is not per se a Democratic problem, itâs a problem with this president,â said Siena spokesman Steve Greenberg.
Sienaâs been picking up on the trend for months, with its most recent New York statewide poll showing Democratic approval of the president down from 86 percent in April to 67 percent. Greenberg says that though the pollingâs made clear that Obamaâs never going to win back the Republicans who were with him on Election Day 2008âor at least supportive in the months afterâthe real erosion has been within his own party.
âWhere heâs lost his support in New York is among the Democrats,â Greenberg said. âThatâs more startling than the overall.â
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63568.html#ixzz1Y1pqu6OP
Politico
Obama's blue-state blues
By: Edward-Isaac Dovere
September 15, 2011 04:52 AM EDT
Barack Obama has a case of the blue state blues.
In Democratic strongholds from Vermont to Californiaânot to mention New York City, where the president helped sink his partyâs nominee in Tuesdayâs special electionâObama isnât quite tanking, but heâs moving unmistakably in the wrong direction.
...But pollsters point to the canary-in-the-coalmine factor: if Obama canât hold these voters, they say, itâs a sign that his wider support among the reliably Democratic electorate of liberals, labor, young people, Jews, African-Americans and other key blocs is withering. They wonât be there in large numbers to put him over the top again in borderline states, and they wonât be there to feed his campaign money and provide volunteer support at the levels they did in 2008.
Tuesdayâs election in New Yorkâs heavily Democratic Queens- and Brooklyn-based 9th District proved to be an extreme manifestation of Obamaâs blue state problem: His approval rating was at 43 percent in a Sept. 9 Siena Research Institute poll and 31 percent in a Sept. 11 automated poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm. By contrast, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo posted a 75 percent approval rating in the district, according to the Siena poll.
âIt is not per se a Democratic problem, itâs a problem with this president,â said Siena spokesman Steve Greenberg.
Sienaâs been picking up on the trend for months, with its most recent New York statewide poll showing Democratic approval of the president down from 86 percent in April to 67 percent. Greenberg says that though the pollingâs made clear that Obamaâs never going to win back the Republicans who were with him on Election Day 2008âor at least supportive in the months afterâthe real erosion has been within his own party.
âWhere heâs lost his support in New York is among the Democrats,â Greenberg said. âThatâs more startling than the overall.â
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63568.html#ixzz1Y1pqu6OP
