The biggest negative gap for Obama is among those who voted for Donald Trump in the primary or who support him now. Slightly less disapproving are those who voted for someone besides Trump in the primary. How white voters break down by education and gender closely mirrors the overall polling: White men without college degrees are likely to disapprove of Obama by a much wider margin than white women without degrees, who are more likely to disapprove of him than men with degrees. (That group is split between Clinton and Trump in the new poll.) White women with college degrees are the most likely among white voters to approve of Obama, but the biggest fans of Obama’s performance are Hispanic and black voters and backers of Clinton in the primary and general elections.
In other words, there’s a strong correlation between how people feel about Obama and how they feel about Clinton. Ninety percent of Clinton supporters approve of Obama’s job performance, 64 percent of them do so strongly. About the same percentage of Trump backers disapprove of Obama’s job performance, more of them feeling that way strongly.
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