Cracks in the floor: Liberals giving up on Obama
President Barack Obama is not a popular political figure, and he has not been one for a long time. The president's job approval rating has been consistently underwater in most surveys since the summer of last year, and the average gap between the president's approval and disapproval, according to Real Clear Politics, has been mired mostly in the double digits since the spring.
But Republicans who have been waiting for Obama's numbers to collapse into territory George W. Bush plumbed toward the end of his administration — the low 30s or even the high 20s — have been disappointed. On a national level, Obama enjoys a floor of support from committed Democrats. As a result, the president's job approval rating has ranged consistently between 43 and 38 percent across a number of surveys for most of the year.
Even in blue states like Pennsylvania, where Democrats are set to retake the governor's mansion in November, Obama's job approval rating has fallen to a dismal 31 percent (according to the latest Franklin & Marshall survey of the state). If Obama's approval ratings are to truly collapse, it must be Democrats who create that condition. What's more, that collapse must come from Democrats is populous liberal bastions like New York and California. Today, White House has reason to fear that Obama's floor is beginning to crack...Also read:
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