The story of a campaign’s collapse in four headlines.
A Chilly Reception from Independents on Obama’s Plans for the Economy — ABC News
Obama’s White Base Shows Cracks Compared with 2008 — Gallup
Obama is Losing a Stunning Amount of African-American Support in North Carolina — Business Insider
Obama’s Jewish Support Drops 22 Points in New York — The Weekly Standard
Let’s throw in a fifth headline, that wraps up what’s behind much of the first four.
Obama’s ratings sink on economic doubts — Reuters
From that fifth story, we learn:
President Barack Obama’s approval ratings have dipped to their lowest level since January on deep economic worries, wiping out most of his lead in the White House race over Republican rival Mitt Romney, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday.
The percentage of Americans who approve of Obama’s job performance dropped from 50 a month ago to 47, matching his mark in early January. The number who think the country is on the wrong track rose 6 percentage points in a month to 63 percent.
If, as seems likely after the North Carolina vote on same sex marriage, people have gone politically correct when it comes to answering pollsters’ questions, President Obama is actually doing worse by 6 to 10 points on his job approval than the polls are letting on. That in mind, check this out:
The doubts about Obama’s leadership helped Romney pull to within 1 point of the Democratic president in the White House race – 45 percent to 44 percent – among registered voters with less than five months to go before the November 6 election. Obama led by 7 points a month ago.
That’s registered voters, not likely voters. Romney should not get cocky, but he should keep pressing his advantages and he should keep forcing Obama on the defensive. If things keep going as they’re going, Mitt Romney will be elected president in November, easily.
Must keep fighting all the way to election day! But this is very encouraging!!
Yes, we don’t stop fighting until Soc Security is repealed/revised, the Fed disbanded, etc…. In other words, we got a long fight in front of us.
Yes, exactly, November isn’t the end of the fight it is the beginning. After we get a GOP White House and Senate we have to keep the pressure on them to keep them from going like the last GOP Congress and White House.
The GOP is talking like recovering alcoholics when it comes to spending. They promise to keep the cork in the bottle. It will be our responsibility to keep them from falling off the wagon.
It kind of looks like Instapundit’s Preference Cascade effect is starting to happen, the more people who come out not liking Obama, the more people realize that not liking him doesn’t make you a racist. When I look at the polling questions showing the disparity between those who approve the way the economy is going and those who say they’d vote for Obama, I can’t but help think somebody is lying to the pollsters?
It also looks like Obama’s fund rasing is inefficient, in that he is spending too much in comparison to what he is taking in, so not only has he lost donations but his outflow is making his war chest even smaller. It looks like Romney and the Republicans are going to have enough money on hand to out media Obama and the DNC in the fall.
In other words: BWahahahahhahhaahah.
It is rather telling that Obama’s seems incapable of applying fiscal reponsibility to his own campaign. I predict the Dems are going to claim this election was bought and paid for by superpacs, Citizens United and Rommney’s fund raising success despite Obama coming in far short of his goal of a Billion dollar war chest.
Bur remember that Instapundit also keeps reminding us “don’t get cocky.”
Keep pressing forward as if we were way behind.
I believe pollsters are being lied to also. As a Black American myself, I can tell you, 95% of blacks will vote for him no matter what. They may be disappointed but they will not vote for a white Republican.
I talked with someone from Gary, Indiana once about how bad the city had gotten when they elected a black mayor many years ago. I asked if things were so bad, why was he re-elected so many times. After a long pause, the reply was because he was black. But they continue to also blame “whitey”. My comments will upset some people but it must be said. Don’t be fooled by these polls. Get out the vote in November.
Thanks for the insight. Lotta work left to do.
Then maybe a Mitt Romney – Allen West – and a Popemobile ticket might be he way to go.
That would be fine with me however, Black Republicans are non-human to in the black community. Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Herman Cain, myself and other conservative blacks are called every derogatory word in the book. Uncle Toms, sell-outs, Oreos, mouth-piece for whitey. I think Allen West and Herman Cain and others are what we need to break down the wall but it will not be easy. It’ll be very difficult to change the mindset that has been in places for way too long. I can only hope.
Some of us are engaged in a campaign to tell the pollsters that we favor Obama. The goals re first to make the Obama campaign think they are doing well enough to get complacent. ALso we don’t want Obama to be doing so poorly that he does something desperate and stupid like:
1. Invade Iran
2. Declare martial law and cancel the election