Shock poll: 48% of white blue-collar Dems oppose renominating Obama

posted at 2:35 pm on November 23, 2011 by Howard Portnoy
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The majority of Americans will sit down together tomorrow to celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving, though for many there is little to be thankful about. Unemployment remains stuck above 9%, 14 million Americans are still out of work, the nation’s debt is at a record $15 trillion, and the government is so dysfunctional that Congress can’t seem to agree on the time of day.

While President Obama is not exclusively to blame for the God-awful “mess” the country finds itself in, a CNN/ORC International Poll released Wednesday demonstrates that one demographic—white blue-collar Democrats—has so soured on his presidency that nearly half would prefer their party nominate a different candidate to run in 2012.

The poll also shows that Obama’s approval rating has plummeted from 76% shortly after his election in 2008 to 44% now, while his disapproval—23% then, 54% now—has taken the opposite turn.

Finally, the survey shows that a combined 53% of respondents oppose Obama’s health care law, while 38% favor the law. What is striking about this statistic is a secondary split among those who oppose it. Thirty-seven percent claim the law is too liberal, while 14% say it is not liberal enough. The clear suggestion is that the president, who has straddled the fence on many issues, has alienated voters from the other end of the ideological spectrum while simultaneously failing to win over those at his own end.

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